Just as I’ve finished consolidating all my Physical machines to HyperV guests Microsoft have announced Windows HyperV Server which is a free download.

With the release of the HyperV Linux Componants I’m going to start moving some workloads away from my old ESX 2.5 servers and see if HyperV Synthetic devices work as well as ESX devices do.

Not that I knew it at the time but Microsoft have also updated their Support policies to include Exchange Server SP1 when virtualized.

The other good news is that there are reports that we’ll have System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (final release) available within a couple of weeks!

Since this is about HyperV I found a nice PowerShell script for use with HyperV to create a new VM, my mention of PowerShell will become more apparant in the next post.