Windows-only shops looking to do a little virtualization on the cheap need look no further than Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Hyper-V and the freebie Hyper-V Server 2008 standalone host. However, our tests showed that customers with even mildly complex virtualization requirements should run Hyper-V on top of Enterprise or Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2008 and manage guest virtual machines by adding System Center Virtual Machine Manager–which brings on licensing costs. As for non-Windows environments, Microsoft’s claim that Hyper-V is capable of mixed operating system virtualization is technically accurate, but the latest version of Novell’s SUSE Enterprise is the only flavor of Linux supported across the Hyper-V range.
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