April 2017
Beginner
404 pages
9h 30m
English
Microsoft's journey with VM/hardware virtualization began with its first hypervisor called Hyper-V. In the year 2008, Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 with Hyper-V role, which is capable of hosting multiple VMs inside a physical machine. Windows Server 2008 was available in different flavors such as Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter. They all differ in the number of VMs or guest OS that can be hosted for free per server. For example, in Windows Server 2008 Standard edition you can run one guest OS for free and new guest OS licenses have to be purchased for running more VMs. Windows Server 2008 Datacenter edition comes with unlimited Windows guest OS licenses.
Read now
Unlock full access