Top 10 What’s New Cool Features in Hyper-V 3

From a virtualization perspective, here’s the Top 10 What’s New Cool Features in Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V—or just Hyper-V 3 for short.

1.    VMs with up to 32 vCPUs
2.    VMs with up to 512GB vRAM
3.    VHDX (=VMDK) up to 16TB
4.    Multiple concurrent Live Migrations & Live Storage Migrations
5.    Hyper-V Replicas (This + SC Orchestrator = SRM Replacement)
6.    Extensible Virtual Switch (There’s a 1000v for Hyper-V)
7.    63-Node Clusters
8.    Built-In NIC Teaming/Trunking & QoS
9.    VM Affinity Rules
10.    No dedicated Live Migration Network needed
11.    Hyper-V Client (This is Hyper-V inside Win8 for client-side virtualization!)

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