Hyper-V R2 is free
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3799
Not so big a deal for those of us on the partner side, since we’ve all got licenses for everything already, at least for testing. But if you were holding off on deploying Hyper-V to your customer sites because of the Windows Server license cost, the wait is over
Seriously – I’ll be interested in hearing if folks are thinking about doing exactly that (or if license cost wasn’t the main issue).
Also, any thoughts about whether the new Hyper-V R2 live migration feature is relevant to SMBs? I think that they’re generally less sensitive as a group to uptime in and of itself, since they tend not to be 24/7 shops, and there tends to only be one server anyway.


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