Anyone looking for FREE, reliable and rich features of Enterprise class hypervisor to virtualize your workload? Give Hyper-V Server 2012 a try and here is the comparison between the old version vs new version.
| Capabilities | Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 | Hyper-V Server 2012 |
| Number of logical processor on host | 64 | 320 |
| Maximum supported RAM on host | 1 TB | 4 TB |
| Virtual CPU supported per host | 512 | 2048 |
| Maximum virtual CPU supported per VM | 4 | 64 |
| Maximum RAM supported per VM | 64 GB | 1 TB |
| Maximum running VM supported per host | 384 | 1024 |
| Guest NUMA | No | Yes |
| Maximum failover cluster nodes supported | 16 | 64 |
| Maximum number of VM supported in failover cluster | 1000 | 4000 |
To download Hyper-V Server 2012, click here
Now, how to do manage Hyper-V Server 2012? You can try download the free tool RSAT for Windows 8, click here
Bear in mind, even this hypervisor is FREE, it did NOT include any virtualization right for Windows Server operating system. So if you have an existing Windows Server license or plan to run VDI (virtualize client operating system), then this product is the best hypervisor for you to use.
