Free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is the free virtualization server OS from Microsoft. It is NOT Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. To understand the (important) differences, see https://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/default.mspx.

That being said, the Beta of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is now available at: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e464e255-cdd5-44b2-84e6-3233eae3f356

What’s new?

1. Failover Clustering and Live Migration

2. Processor and memory upgrades: up to 32-cores and 1TB of RAM

3. Hyper-V Configuration Utility