Implementing Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper-V™ and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

Abstract

The purpose of this integration note is to help customers install the following Microsoft hypervisor

(Hyper-V) enabled products:

• Microsoft

Windows

Server

2008 R2 Hyper-V

(The Hyper-V server role within Windows Server

2008 R2)

• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

This integration note describes the level of support available for these Hyper-V enabled products

running multiple guest operating systems on a single server and addresses the following key topics:

• Introduction to Microsoft products that provide Hyper-V functionality

• Recommended system configurations

• Hardware prerequisites

• Supported configurations of HP ProLiant servers

• Procedures for new installations

• Known issues and workarounds

Terminology

Administrators who are looking to deploy Hyper-V enabled products should be familiar with the

terminology in Table 1.

Table 1. Virtualization terminology

Term Description

Child virtual machine Guest OS running in a separate partition on the host

Guest operating system OS running on a virtual machine

Host operating system OS on the physical computer running Windows

Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V software

Parent virtual machine Physical computer that hosts one or more child virtual

machines

Partition A virtual machine

Virtual hard disk VHD file that provides storage for the virtual

machines

Windows hypervisor Layer of software that leverages the Windows Server

driver support and hardware-assisted virtualization

technology

Comparing Microsoft Hyper-V enabled products

Administrators want flexibility in allocating compute resources for specific tasks. Windows Server

2008 R2 Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 include virtualization technologies that provide this

flexibility by decoupling the hardware from the work performed.

Figure 1 shows the differences in functionality between Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and Windows

Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.