Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ Resource Kit

Chapter 1. Introducing Virtualization

• Understanding Virtualization

• What Is Software Virtualization?

• Making a Business Case for Server Virtualization

• Defining Server Virtualization Scenarios

• Summary

• Additional Resources

The objective of this book is to provide an in-depth look at the new Microsoft virtualization technology named Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Hyper-V represents the evolution of Microsoft virtualization technology from the hosted architecture of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 that runs on top of a Windows operating system to a hypervisor-based architecture. Within Hyper-V, the Windows hypervisor is a software layer that runs directly on physical hardware, enables the execution of multiple, isolated environments (or partitions) with separate ...