This video covers many important features of HyperV version 3 which will be included in Windows Server 2012 as well as Windows 8 desktop, such as:

  • the new VHD format is VHDx and supports upto 16TB
    • multiple VHDx’s can be “pooled” into one virtual disk, up to 64TB in size
  • network card “Teaming” for link aggregation and/or failover is now integrated and supported by Microsoft
    • the NIC’s in the Team do NOT have to be the same type or even the same vendor.  You can mix and match your NIC’s into one Team
  • Multile live Migrations of the VM’s can be done at the same time
    • VHD’s can be live migrated between servers and even between Windows 8 clients
  • When a HyperV “Snapshot” is deleted, the AVHD (delta file) and the VHD (main file) are merged immediately
    • There is no longer a need to shut down the VM to have the merge take place
  • While not covered in the video I think the other major improvement is the ability to connect up to 32 CPU cores to each VM
    • See the table below the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iiGLCE3E7I

Hyper-V v2 compared to Hyper-V v3
Server 2008R2 compared to Server 2012

Capabilities Hyper-V in WS2008 R2 Hyper-V v3
Processor Architecture – 64 bit only (Intel-VT and AMD-V) Yes Yes
Hypervisor-based (Type 1) Yes Yes
Product Type Standalone product and Operating System Standalone product and Operating System
Number of Sockets Up to 4 and 8 |  TBD
Up to 64 = DC
Number of Logical Processors From 24 to 64 cores 160 cores
Enhanced CPU support Processor compatibility mode for Live Migration NUMA in the VM as well
NUMA in the host only
Memory with Dynamic Memory 32Gb for Standard Edition to 1TB for others 2TB
VM Migration Live Migration Live Migration Prioritization, Any part of a VM can be live migrated with or without HA, Multiple Simultaneous Live Migration, Live Migration without shared storage
Administrative UI Command Line & remote management, SCVMM and Hyper-V Manager MMC Command Line & remote management, SCVMM and Hyper-V Manager MMC
Management System Center Virtual Machine Manager & existing Windows management tools (example: RSAT, WMI, Powershell, System Center, etc.) System Center Virtual Machine Manager & existing Windows management tools (example: RSAT, WMI, Powershell, System Center, etc.)
Clustering/HA nodes and max VMs Up to 16 nodes and 1000 VMs Up to 63 nodes and 4000 VMs
Virtualization Rights for  Free edition = 0 TBD
Windows Server guests SE = 1 VM
  EE = 4 VM
  DC Edition = unlimited VM per proc
Number of running VM Guests Up to 384, or as many as physical resources allow Up to 1024, or as many as physical resources allow
Guest VM: Max Cores & RAM per VM 4 vCPU, 64GB RAM 32 vCPU, 512GB RAM

The table above was taken from http://kevin.refinenetworks.com/tag/window-8-hyper-v-v3-comparison/


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