Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ Resource Kit

Chapter 2. Hyper-V Overview

• Hyper-V Background

• Hyper-V Core Features

• Reviewing Hyper-V

• Virtual Machine Hardware Environment

• Using the Hyper-V Manager Console

• Outlining the WMI API

• Summary

• Additional Resources

This chapter contains an overview of the Hyper-V features available as a role in a full installation of Windows Server 2008, as a Server Core role, and in Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. In order to provide a robust virtualization platform that abstracts physical hardware dependencies and scales to support numerous concurrent workloads, Hyper-V is based on a hypervisor-based architecture that enables standard services and resources to create, manage, and execute virtual machines. Hyper-V offers a standard virtual hardware environment, virtual hard ...