Microsoft Hyper-V 2.0 to include Live Migration, vRAM hot plug, dynamic memory, NTP support and more

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Microsoft Hyper-V 2.0 to include Live Migration, vRAM hot plug, dynamic memory, NTP support and more

Posted by Alessandro Perilli | Monday, October 27, 2008 | 6 Comments

Steven Bink at Hypervoria.com is reporting live from Microsoft PDC 2008 conference in Los Angeles.

Before the keynote is actually performed (it will be live streamed here) he already published the list of features planned for Hyper-V 2.0, part of the upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2:

Live Migration
Virtual memory hot plug
Virtual storage (VHD) hot plug/remove
Dynamic memory distribution across all VMs
Support for shareable LUNs (Clustered Shared Volumes or CSV)
Support for AMD RVI and Intel EPT nested page tables technologies
Support for up to 32 physical cores
Support for I/O Virtualization technologies

Please note that Microsoft is still unsure about including the dynamic memory feature in the RTM. In any case it will not appear in the beta builds.

Update: The new website about Windows Server 2008 R2 that Microsoft just launched reveals that the OS (and Hyper-V 2.0) will be available no earlier than 2010.

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6 Comments

Anonymous Monday, October 27, 2008 8:31:00 PM

Finally Hyper-V will be like ESX, yes like ESX 4 years ago :)

Anonymous Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:29:00 PM

This is great, let's virtualize!

Anonymous Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:31:00 AM

"Virtual memory hot plug" sounds nice, but which win OS can handle that ...

Massimo Re Ferre' Wednesday, October 29, 2008 5:38:00 PM

>"Virtual memory hot plug" sounds nice, but which win OS can handle that ...

If I remember well you can do that since Windows 2003. Obviously it falls into the same category of Hot-Plug PCI (i.e. it has been there forever, I have never seen a customer leveraging it).

Massimo.

Anonymous Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:31:00 PM

ESX was free 4 years ago?

Mike DiPetrillo Friday, October 31, 2008 7:27:00 PM

The real low down on Microsoft's roadmap: http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvirtualization/2008/10/hyper-v-20---mi.html.

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