Today’s IT departments are under increasing pressure to manage and support expanding computer resources while at the same time reducing costs. Server virtualization, which lets multiple operating systems run concurrently on the same physical server, has become a broadly accepted method to meet these requirements.

By converting under-utilized physical servers into virtual machines that run on a single physical server, organizations can reduce space, power and hardware costs in the data center. Because virtual machines are generally much faster to recover in a disaster than physical computers are, virtualization also increases server uptime and reliability.

To help customers adopt virtualization easily, Microsoft has developed a next-generation server virtualization solution as a feature of Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2. Hyper- VTM is a virtualization platform that out of the box provides reliable and scalable platform capabilities along with a single set of integrated management tools to manage both physical and virtual resources.