Today is the day Microsoft official releases Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft is doing a virtual launch event. Windows Server 2012 is a huge step forward for Microsoft virtualization technology Hyper-V.

I the past year I wrote a lot of blog post about the new features in Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V. I also did some comparing between VMware vSphere 5 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.

First to get an overview about the new feature in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V you should check out my blog post: Hyper-V 2012 – Hey I Just Met You And This Is Crazy

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Features

You can find some advanced blog posts about new technologies, which cover for example Hyper-V Replica, Converged Fabric and Cluster-Aware Updating here:

Hyper-V vs. VMware

If you are a VMware vSphere user at the moment, you should checkout my blog post series about Hyper-V vs. VMware.

Hyper-V and Windows PowerShell

If you are deploying Windows Server 2012 in your environment have a look at PowerShell. Windows PowerShell v3 which is included in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 is also a great release. I recommend reading the following posts:

Hyper-V and System Center

To manage Hyper-V Microsoft offers System Center 2012 and with the release of Service Pack 1 Microsoft will support the new features in Windows Server 2012.

Interview about the new feature in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

In July I met with Carsten Rachfahl who is a MVP for Virtual Machine and the owner of hyper-v-server.de. Carsten was visiting Switzerland and he also took the time to do some interviews and I had the chance to speak with him.

In the interview (in german) we talked about the new release of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V which is included in Windows Server 2012:

Next Events

Downloads

Credits for the blog post title go to Michael Faden from Microsoft Switzerland.

5 thoughts on “Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V – Welcome to the Post-VMware Era!”

Marco Shaw on September 4, 2012 at 10:44 pm said:

Now, I’m not an expert in either Hyper-V or VMware, as far as I’m concerned, but some of this information may change in a few days when VMware 5.1 comes out. I’m a Microsoft fan, but don’t sell VMware short by comparing Hyper-V “v3″ with VMware 5.0. For example, I understand VMware 5.1 now has something comparable to “Shared Nothing Live Migration”.
Thomas Maurer on September 5, 2012 at 1:32 am said:

Yes you are right, this are posts about VMware vSphere 5.0, and yes VMware vSphere 5.1 does bring a feature called unified vMontion. But still the release 5.1 does bing all feature Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V delivers.

Also Microsoft did some changes in the RTM of Windows Server 2012 for example you can now run 8000 Virtual Machines per Hyper-V Cluster.

Checkout this paper: http://t.co/7tyK84Il

I will update the posts as soon as I find some time
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Will on November 24, 2012 at 4:15 pm said:

I know you’re a Microsoft guru but do you really need to change the word “bring” to “bing”? What an aggressive marketing department…
Thomas Maurer on November 24, 2012 at 7:41 pm said:

Haha, sorry for that It’s called product placement

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V – Welcome to the Post-VMware Era!