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Feature Comparison Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Contents Introduction ............................................................................... 4 More Secure Multitenancy ..................................................... 5 Flexible Infrastructure .............................................................. 9 Scale, Performance, and Density ....................................... 13 High Availability ..................................................................... 18 Processor and Memory Support ....................................... 24 Network ................................................................................... 24 Storage ..................................................................................... 25 Manageability ......................................................................... 25 Feature Comparison: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 2 Copyright information © 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This document is provided "as-is." Information and views expressed in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, may change without notice. You bear the risk of using it. This document does not provide you with any legal rights to any intellectual property in any Microsoft product. You may copy and use this document for your internal, reference purposes. You may modify this document for your internal, reference purposes. Feature Comparison: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 3 Introduction The following tables compare selected features of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. The tables include comments about each version’s performance, as well as a notation about how well each feature is supported. The legend for this notation is as follows: Level of Feature Support Feature is supported Feature is only partially supported Feature is not supported Feature Comparison: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 4 More Secure Multitenancy Helps to ensure that each customer’s data is completely separate and secure from other customers’ information. Feature Windows Server Windows Server Value Statement 2008 R2 Hyper-V 2012 Hyper-V Multitenant Provides flexibility to security and restrict access to a virtual isolation machine on any node Server virtualization Server virtualization while maintaining provides isolation provides a fully isolated isolation of the network between virtual machines. network layer of the and storage traffic. However, the network datacenter through layer of the datacenter is programmatically Provides enhanced not fully isolated, and managed and extensible security and isolation of Layer 2 connectivity is capabilities. This enables customers’ networks from implied between different connection to the one another. workloads that are network of virtual running over the same machines with policy infrastructure. enforcement for security and isolation. Private virtual Increases virtual machine local area isolation in a multitenant network environment, while not (LAN), or This feature is not PVLANs allow Hyper-V degrading access to PVLAN supported. administrators to isolate public network resources. virtual machines from each other (for example, virtual machines cannot contact other virtual machines over the network), while still maintaining external network connectivity for all virtual machines. Feature Comparison: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 5 Feature Windows Server Windows Server Value Statement 2008 R2 Hyper-V 2012 Hyper-V DHCP guard Protects against rogue DHCP servers. This feature is not DHCP guard drops server supported. messages from unauthorized virtual machines that are acting as DHCP servers. DHCP server traffic from other virtual switch ports is automatically dropped. Router guard Provides better security and an authorization check for virtual This feature is not Router guard drops machines. supported. router advertisement and redirection messages from unauthorized virtual machines that are acting as routers. Hyper-V Provides an open Extensible platform for partners’ Switch plug-ins. Unified This feature is not The Hyper-V Extensible management, easier supported. Switch is a Layer 2 virtual support, and core network switch that services for extensions provides are provided without programmatically charge. For example, all managed and extensible extensions have live capabilities to connect migration support by virtual machines to the default, and no special physical network. The coding for services is Hyper-V Extensible required. Switch is an open platform that lets vendors provide extensions written to standard Windows application programming interface (API) frameworks. Feature Comparison: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 6 Feature Windows Server Windows Server Value Statement 2008 R2 Hyper-V 2012 Hyper-V Extension Provides traffic visibility monitoring at different layers and enables statistical traffic This feature is not Multiple monitoring and data to be gathered. supported. filtering extensions can be supported at the entrance and outlet portions of the Hyper-V Extensible Switch. Extension Provides enhanced uniqueness security through a unique extension state. This feature is not Extension supported. state/configuration is unique to each instance of a Hyper-V Extensible Switch on a machine. Extensions Optimizes the virtual that learn life network for greater cycle of performance. virtual This feature is not These extensions can machines supported. learn the flow of network traffic based on the workload life cycle of virtual machines. Extensions Provides flexibility to that prohibit improve performance, state changes management, and This feature is not These extensions can diagnostics. supported. better ensure security by identifying harmful state changes. The extensions can stop these state changes from being implemented, while allowing features for monitoring and security to be launched. Feature Comparison: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 7 Feature Windows Server Windows Server Value Statement 2008 R2 Hyper-V 2012 Hyper-V Multiple Provides a cost-effective extensions on solution with better same switch manageability and This feature is not Multiple extensions can security. supported. coexist on the same Hyper-V Extensible Switch. Feature Comparison: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 8 Flexible Infrastructure Makes it easier and faster to add and move servers. Feature Windows Server Windows Server Value Statement 2008 R2 Hyper-V 2012 Hyper-V Network Helps to achieve virtualization maximum performance with no new hardware Virtual LANs (VLANs) are Hyper-V Network (servers, switches, or used to isolate networks, Virtualization helps to appliances). but they are very complex isolate network traffic on to manage on a large a shared infrastructure scale. without the need to use VLANs. It also allows users to move virtual machines, as needed, within a virtual infrastructure while preserving virtual network assignments. Network Virtualization eliminates hierarchical IP address assignments across virtual machines. A virtual machine can be placed on any node, regardless of IP address, even across the cloud. IP address Eliminates the need to rewrite upgrade network adapters, switches, or This feature is not Each virtual machine appliances. supported. customer address (CA) is mapped to a unique host provider address (PA). Hyper-V Network Virtualization uses IP address rewrite to map the CA to the PA. Feature Comparison: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 9 Feature Windows Server Windows Server Value Statement 2008 R2 Hyper-V 2012 Hyper-V Generic Enables better Routing performance by reducing Encapsulation the burden on the This feature is not Hyper-V Network switches. supported. Virtualization uses Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) IP packets to map a virtual network to a physical network. It can use as few as one IP address per host. Live Provides faster and migration simultaneous migration. Provides dynamic Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 mobility of virtual introduced the Live Hyper-V provides the machines across the Migration feature, which ability to migrate virtual datacenter. permits users to move a machines, with support running virtual machine for simultaneous live from one physical migrations. That is, users computer to another with can move several virtual no downtime—assuming machines at the same that the virtual machine is time. clustered. Live migrations are not limited to a cluster. Virtual machines can be migrated across cluster boundaries, and between stand-alone servers that are not part of a cluster. Feature Comparison: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 10 Feature Windows Server Windows Server Value Statement 2008 R2 Hyper-V 2012 Hyper-V Live storage Provides better flexibility migration and control while managing storage in a A virtual machine’s Live storage migration cloud environment. storage can be moved allows users to move only while the virtual virtual hard disks that are Provides flexibility to machine is shut down. attached to a running move virtual hard disks virtual machine. without downtime. Users can transfer virtual hard disks to a new location for upgrading or migrating storage, performing back-end storage maintenance, or redistributing the storage load. Importing