Windows® Small Business Server 2008 Administrator’s Companion

Chapter 6. Configuring SBS in Hyper-V

• Hyper-V Overview

• Installation

• Initial Configuration

• Creating a Virtual Machine

• Working with a Virtual Machine

• SBS in Hyper-V

• Summary

Hyper-V is Microsoft’s new hypervisor-based, native Windows Server 2008 virtualization solution. While not for everyone, we think that using virtualization (and specifically Hyper-V) to build your SBS network is a very cost-effective solution that can provide an excellent end-user experience while also enabling improved disaster recovery and ease of management.

When we wrote the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Administrator’s Companion, virtualization was a tiny fraction of the market and almost exclusively the province of very large organizations. Microsoft had no virtualization ...