Unlike with Hyper-V 1.0 which was included as a beta version in the RTM of Windows 2008 Server, Hyper-V 2.0 RTM will be included in the Windows 2008 R2 RTM also.
The only edition of Hyper-V 2.0 that will be delayed is the stand-alone platform Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, which Microsoft will release within 30 days the release of Windows Server 2008 R2. Planned components of Hyper-V 2.0 include:
- Live Migration
- Virtual Memory Hot Add
- Virtual Storage (VHD) Hot Plug/Remove
- Dynamic Memory Distribution across all VMs
- Support for shareable LUNS (Clustered Shared Volumes)
- Support for upto 32 Cores
- Support for I/O Virtualisation Technologies.
This combined with Windows Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 which is now available as a RC should provide one compelling solution for virtualisation of the desktop and server estate.