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

components for Hyper-V included with Windows Server 2008 R2 are available from Microsoft:

www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=C299D675-BB9F-41CF-B5EB-

74D0595CCC5C&displaylang=en.

• Guest Operating System Support: Support for guest OSs in a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V or

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 virtual environment is available from Microsoft:

www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-supported-guest-os.aspx.

Obtaining Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V is included with the Windows Server 2008 R2 media as a server

role that can be installed in both full and server core based installations.

Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 available from HP include

support for Hyper-V. For information on Windows Server 2008 R2, refer to the URLs provided in the

“

For more information” section at the end of this document.

Updating Hyper-V installations

Microsoft recommends several updates and hot fixes for Hyper-V installations. Download and

installation information for software updates is available at

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/library/dd430893.aspx.

Configuration requirements

Hyper-V uses a hardware-assisted feature built into Intel

and AMD

processors.

• On Intel-based ProLiant servers, this feature is called Intel

Virtualization Technology (Intel-VT).

• On Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)-based ProLiant servers, this feature is called AMD

Virtualization (AMD-V™) Technology.

On ProLiant servers, the user must enable this feature before installing Hyper-V. Refer to the section

“

Enabling support for hardware-assisted virtualization in the ROM-Based Setup Utility (RBSU)” in this

document.

Recommended system configurations

Microsoft and HP established the recommended system configurations for Windows Server 2008 OS

installations listed in this section.

Microsoft recommendations

Microsoft recommends the configurations in Table 2 for running Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

or Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.

Table 2. Host OS configuration recommended by Microsoft

Component Requirement

Minimum Recommended Optimum Processor speed

1.4 GHz 2 GHz 3 GHz (or greater)

RAM per processor Minimum Recommended Optimum