Microsoft announced during their “Get Virtual Now” tour that they would release a version of Hyper-V (called Hyper-V Server 2008) that would be free. Hyper-V Server 2008 is a bare metal hypervisor and only a bare metal hypervisor. Think of it as the Hyper-V role of Windows Server 2008 without the Windows Server 2008 part. Another cool feature of Hyper-V that was announced was the ability to do live migrations of virtual machines. This is similar technology to VMware’s VMotion or Citrix XenServer’s XenMotion. Microsoft’s live migration uses some of the new clustering improvements in Windows Server 2008. This is all really cool technology and is probably better explained via screen shots or video. Luckily, Microsoft TechNet posted a short video showing both of these upcoming technologies.

Demo - Hyper-V Server and Live Migration

Technorati : Clustering, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Live Migration, Microsoft, VMotion, Virtualization
Del.icio.us : Clustering, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Live Migration, Microsoft, VMotion, Virtualization
Ice Rocket : Clustering, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Live Migration, Microsoft, VMotion, Virtualization