I saw this and thought I would share it. Hyper-V R2, which is in beta already supports hot add/remove of drives, so native SBS 2008 Backup will work as youcan now dynamically add and remove those USB drives and they can be configured as pass-through disks so you will not have to create VHDs on them. Other interesting features for me were the live migration and huge memory support, all in the free version along with the management console!
Hyper-V R2 BETA is available to test here. There is also an overview document that can be found here.
In the overview document is the summary of Hyper-V as shipping today and the products as of tomorrow:
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Capabilities
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
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Windows Server 2008 R2 EE, DC
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Processor Architecture x64 only
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Hypervisor-based
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Product Type
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Standalone product
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Standalone product
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Operating System
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Number of Sockets (Licensing)
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Up to 4
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Up to 8
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Up to 8 = EE | Up to 64 = DC
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Number of cores supported by the hypervisor
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24 (with QFE)
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32
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32
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Memory
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Up to 32 GB
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Up to 1 TB
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Up to 1TB
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VM Migration
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None
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Quick and live migration
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Quick and live migration (EE & DC)
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Administrative UI
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Command line, text based configuration utility and remote GUI management
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Command line, text based configuration utility and remote GUI management
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Command line, remote management, and local GUI (Hyper-V Manager MMC)
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Management
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Existing management tools
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Manageable by SCVMM
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Yes (SCVMM 2008)
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Yes (SCVMM 2008 SP1)
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Yes (SCVMM 2008 SP1)
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Virtualization Rights for Windows Server guests
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0
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0
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EE = 4 VM
DC Edition = unlimited VM per proc
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Number of running VM Guests
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Up to 192, or as many as physical resources allow
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Up to 256, or as many as physical resources allow
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Up to 256, or as many as physical resources allow
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Storage
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Direct Attach Storage (DAS): SATA, eSATA, PATA, SAS, SCSI, Firewire, Storage Area Networks (SANs): iSCSI, Fiber Channel, SAS
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Planned Guest OS support
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Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows 2000 Server, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 & Windows XP SP3/SP2
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That is it for now.
David
Posted
Wed, Jan 21 2009 8:07 AM
by
David Overton