1.6. Summary

Windows Server 2008 brings a lot of new features and benefits that will drive a lot of migrations to the new operating system. This chapter presented many of these new additions.

One of the significant benefits of Windows Server 2008 is virtualization. Three editions (Windows Server 2008 Standard with Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise with Hyper-V, and Windows Server 2008 Datacenter with Hyper-V) support virtualization. Each edition can be purchased with or without Hyper-V, which is the technology that supports virtualization. The Standard edition supports one virtual server, the Enterprise edition supports as many as four virtual servers, and the Datacenter edition supports an unlimited number of virtual servers. Virtualization ...

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