Microsoft released version 2 of their free stand-alone virtualization product Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. The new version has many improvements including free Live Migration and High Availability. R2 can support up to 8 processors with up to 64 logical processors. The memory limit was raised to 1 TB and up to 384 virtual machines with up to 512 virtual processors can be run. Other features such as processor compatibility mode, hot add/remove virtual storage, network enhancements and boot from flash were also added.
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can be managed wit the free Remove Server Administration Tool, Windows Server 2008 R2 or System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.
