Hyper-V Server 2008 now available for download
October 2nd, 2008 | 
Author: First announced at the Microsoft getVirtualNow launch event on Sept 8, Microsoft’s stand alone, bare metal installable Hyper-V Server 2008 is now available for free download. Go to the
Microsoft Hyper-V Server page to get your copy.
Patrick O’Rourke’s Windows Virtualization team Blog post Bare metal hypervisor is here, along with new training, services announced the availability yesterday (Oct 1). Patrick summarized the new product as follows:
“This is the no-cost, bare metal hypervisor. Think ESXi, but with Windows and not Linux.”
Patrick appears to be confusing ESXi with another version of VMware’s servers as ESXi does not require or use Linux as an OS. Regardless, the feature comparison is justified.
More on the new training from Microsoft in another post.
When you are ready to build your Hyper-V Server 2008 host, here’s a quick screen shot summary of the hardware requirements for your reference:
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Microsoft is positioning this new Hyper-V server for simplified server consolidation and as a Test and Development workload platform.
With this latest edition Microsoft now has several flavors of its virtualization offerings . The following is another screenshot from the link above showing a table of features for each version to help you decide what is best for your virtualization needs.
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