March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
10h 1m
English
book
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
by ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH
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Software requirements
After discussing the hardware requirements for Hyper-V implementation, we will now go through the software requirements and best practices for Hyper-V.
From Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012, Microsoft changed its licensing scheme; Windows Server 2012 doesn't come as an enterprise edition. There are only two editions of Windows Server 2012 available—Standard and Datacenter. These two editions provide equal features, the only difference is that the Standard edition is for virtualization environments that are not mature, and the Datacenter edition is for highly virtualized environments.
Windows Server 2012 Standard edition gives only one virtual machine license free, while Windows Server 2012 Datacenter edition provides ...