Wednesday, June 18, 2008

HyperV - Technical Information

Q. What are the system requirements for Hyper-V?

A. In addition to the systems requirement for Windows Server 2008, the two key requirements for the Hyper-V platform are the need to ensure that the server is a 64-bit environment and supports hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT or AMD-V) technology.

Q. How many virtual machines can run per processor?

A. The number of virtual machines running per host depends on many factors, including physical memory, processor, and workload running in the guest. With Hyper-V, you define the amount of memory available to a virtual machine, and that memory allocation can be altered to reflect the needs of the virtual machine.

Q. Does Hyper-V support 64-bit processors?

A. Hyper-V runs on a 64-bit (x64) server platform and requires support of either AMD64 or Intel IA-32e/EM64T (x64) processors with hardware-assisted virtualization support. Note that Hyper-V does not support Itanium (IA-64) processors. For the virtual machines, Hyper-V supports both 32-bit and 64-bit systems as guest OSes.

Q. Does Hyper-V support symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) in the virtual machine environment?

A. Hyper-V supports both uniprocessor and multiprocessor configurations in the virtual machine environment.

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