Microsoft Hyper-V Need to Know
Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based technology that is a key feature of Windows Server 2008 R2. It provides a scalable, reliable, and highly available virtualisation platform. It is part of Microsoft’s ongoing effort to provide customers and partners with the best operating system platform for virtualisation.
A core component of Hyper-V, Windows hypervisor is a thin layer of software between the hardware and the OS that allows multiple operating systems to run, unmodified, on a host computer at the same time. It provides simple partitioning functionality and is responsible for maintaining strong isolation between partitions. It has an inherently secure architecture with minimal attack surface, as it does not contain any third-party device drivers.
To access Hyper-V users can go to Server Manager and install the Hyper-V role. After the Hyper-V role is enabled, Hyper-V Manager will become available as part of Administrative Tools. From the Hyper-V Manager users can easily create and configure virtual machines.
To run Hyper-V, in addition to the system requirement for Windows Server 2008 R2, there are two key requirements for the Hyper-V platform:
- The need to ensure that the server is a 64-bit environment
- The server environment supports hardware-assisted virtualisation (Intel VT or AMD-V) technology.
Hyper-V runs on a 64-bit (x64) server platform and requires support of wither AMD64 or Intel IA-32e/EM64T (x64) processors with hardware-assisted virtualisation support. Note that Hyper-V does not support Itanium (IA-64) processors. For the virtual machines, Hyper-V supports both 32-bit and 64-bit systems as guest operating systems.
Hyper-V supports both uniprocessor and multiprocessor configurations in the virtual machine environment.
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