
Important Information Guide 5
Overview
This document provides the following information:
• List of Dell™ systems supporting Hyper-V™
• Features required to configure Hyper-V on Dell systems
• Instructions for Upgrading Hyper-V Role from Beta to RTM
• Instructions for enabling Hyper-V role on Microsoft
®
Windows Server
®
2008 x64
• Hyper-V configuration tool on Hyper-V Server 2008
• Instructions for creating and managing Virtual Machines on Hyper-V
Server 2008
• Known Issues and resolutions for Hyper-V Role and Hyper-V Server 2008
Microsoft Hyper-V is a hypervisor based virtualization technology designed
for x64 based systems. Microsoft provides virtualization in two forms:
• As a Hyper-V role.
• As a standalone operating system, Hyper-V Server 2008.
NOTE: Dell does not offer factory installations of the Windows Server 2008 x64
editions without Hyper-V.
NOTE: The Hyper-V role is not available on x86 based Windows Server 2008
operating system.
Supported Hardware
This section provides the Dell hardware requirements for supporting
Microsoft Hyper-V based products.
NOTE: For latest information on supported hardware for Hyper-V, see the
Dell website at dell.com/microsoft/virtualization.
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