Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2 is a stand-alone product that provides a reliable and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to improve server utilization and reduce costs. Since Hyper-V Server is a dedicated stand-alone product, which contains only the Windows Hypervisor, Windows Server driver model and virtualization components, it provides a small footprint and minimal overhead. It easily plugs into customers’ existing IT environments, leveraging their existing patching, provisioning, management, support tools, processes, and skills. Some of the new key new features that are available in Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 are live migration, cluster shared volume support and expanded processor and memory support for host systems.
IT Pros can easily to leverage their existing knowledge and skills with Microsoft virtualization products, as well as the collective knowledge of the community, minimizing any learning curve. In addition, with Microsoft providing comprehensive support for Microsoft applications and heterogeneous guest operating systems, customers can virtualize with confidence and peace of mind.
When to Use Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Customers can use Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 for the following scenarios:
Test and Development
Server Consolidation
Branch Office Consolidation
Hosted Desktop Virtualization (VDI)
Customers should use Windows Server 2008 R2 to get application failover capabilities or flexible and cost-effective virtualization rights (one free virtual instance for Standard Edition, four free virtual instances for Enterprise Editions, and unlimited virtual instances for Datacenter Edition with the purchase of a license of Windows Server 2008), and flexible and cost-effective virtualization rights.
Here is a list of the features in Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.
Comprehensive Device Management
You now have comprehensive device management and solution deployment that spans mobile and fixed readers. With BizTalk Server RFID management capabilities you can manage multiple providers and devices end emulate devices. In addition, you are able to monitor and troubleshoot deployments using System Center Operations Manager.
Capture Business Relevant Data
Create, deploy and change business rules and event filtering to expose business relevant data and take the appropriate action based on incoming events. Through BizTalk’s Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) you can obtain end to end process visibility and analytics of RFID event flow during business process execution.
Support for Industry Standards
BizTalk Server RFID provides support for EPC Global standards like EPCIS, Tag Data Translator (TDT) and Low Level Reader Protocol.


