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Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

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Date : 1/1/2009

Increase Efficiency. Maximize Resources. Dell and Microsoft Virtualization

Since the Hyper-V™ hypervisor-based technology is included in Microsoft® Windows Server^® 2008 as a feature, Dell customers can start trying and using virtualization right away. Many customers and solution providers may find that they can use their existing skills because of the familiarity they already have with Windows Server.

The price advantage versus other solutions goes further. When you use Microsoft® System Center for management, you have a comprehensive management solution that can manage both your virtual and physical environments.

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Capabilities	Windows Server 2008 Datacenter x64 Edition	Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition	WindowsServer 2008 Standard x64 Edition
Scenario	Unlimited virtualization rights allow for significantly extending the savings customers can realize through server consolidation on the Windows Server platform on small and large servers	For servers that will host up to four Windows Server 2008 guest operating systems, have up to eight sockets, or have up to 1 TB memory	Works for implementing limited virtualization on a server
Processor Architecture 64-bit	Yes	Yes	Yes
Number of Processor Sockets	Up to 16	Up to 8	Up to 4
Virtualization Rights for Windows Server 2008 Guests¹	Unlimited	Up to 4	Up to 1
Product Licensing	Per Processor	Per Physical Host	Per Physical Host
Physical Memory	Up to 2 TB memory	Up to 2 TB memory	Up to 32 GB
VM Migration	Quick Migration	Quick Migration	None
VM High Availability	Yes	Yes	No
Administrative UI	Command Line, remote management and graphical user interface (GUI) (Hyper-V Manager MMC)
Management	System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 System Center family products including SCDPM, SCCM and SCOM 2007
Number of Running voice mail (VM) Guests	Up to 128 or as many as physical resources allow
Storage	Direct Attach Storage (DAS): SATA, SAS, SCSI, USB Storage Area Networks (SANs): iSCSI, fiber channel (FC), SAS Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Guest OS support²	Windows Server 2008 x64 and x86 Windows Server 2003 x86 and x64 Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server SP4 (1-way) Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 (1-way) Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 Windows Vista® x86 and x64 Windows® XP Professional Windows XP SP3 and SP2 Windows HPC Server 2008