The MS Virtualization team posted some details on what to expect from Hyper-V Server 2008 R2:
- Failover Clustering with Live Migration: This is a huge addition bringing Hyper-V Server closer to production environments.
- Memory Support: You can have up to 1TB of RAM in a host. That’s not exactly going to affect many people 🙂
- Processors: You can have up to 32 logical processors (cores). The “sweet spot” for sockets is 4 so this implies support for 8 core processors.
- Updated configuration utility: Anyone who hates the command line administration of Server Core should appreciate the basic DOS-style wizard in the current release of Hyper-V Server 2008. R2 adds more functionality to this. I wish MS would do something like this for the normal Core installation, heck, maybe they have already – I haven’t checked yet.
One thing will stop it from going into production for me. The current release cannot be managed by OpsMgr 2007 SP1 (the agent installer doesn’t recognise the operating system) and a VMM agent crashes repeatedly.