With the release of its updated standalone Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 product, Microsoft claims to [finally] have a hypervisor to match that of market leader VMware. Moreover, by bundling newly added live ...

In just over a year, Microsoft went from having basically no real enterprise-class server virtualization technology to one that is at par and has VMware scared and running. Back in the middle of 2008, ...

Installing Hyper-V in Server 2008 is a matter of opening Server Manager and adding Hyper-V as a “role.” However, you don’t want to use the version of Hyper-V that comes with the Server 2008 DVD; you ...

Microsoft, famous for its product delays, has taken a different approach with its latest virtualization offering: instead of multiple delays, it's pushing up delivery deadlines. The Redmond, WA-based ...

Microsoft has published a new release candidate (RC2) of its first enterprise-class hypervisor, Hyper-V. The release marks the next step of what has been a quick march to commercial availability for a ...

Microsoft will announce today that its long awaited Hyper-V Server 2008 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 will ship in 30 days. The Redmond, Wash company will also demonstrate a live ...

I'm coming up to speed on Hyper-V and SC VMM, but there is one issue that isn't quite clear to me. I've looked through most Hyper-V documentation, but most of them deal with Hyper-V to Hyper-V ...

Just two months after the release Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (formerly codenamed Viridian) RC0, the RC1 build has hit the Microsoft Download Center. The RC1 releases will be available as optional ...

Late to the virtualization game, Microsoft has been running several lengths behind the competition in this space for years. However, the new features and strong performance present in Windows Server ...

In case you hadn't noticed, the first four letters in the word "hyper" are H-Y-P-E. And, until today, a lot of what we knew about the core product in Microsoft's virtualization strategy, the Hyper-V ...

Microsoft brings its bare-metal hypervisor platform, Hyper-V Server 2008, to market and makes it a freely downloadable virtualization product Last week, Microsoft announced that it had shipped its ...