'Viridian' Becomes Hyper-V
Microsoft finally gave its upcoming Windows Server virtualization technology an official name this week, and also announced its packaging plans for the technology.
The announcement came Monday at the company's TechEd IT Forum conference in Barcelona, Spain.
Formerly codenamed "Viridian," the virtualization technology will henceforth be dubbed Hyper-V, according to company statements. Although it's set to ship 180 days after Windows Server 2008, it will still be included by default in mainstream editions of the server once it's available.
Since Hyper-V will ultimately be packaged with the next version of Microsoft's server software, the company also announced the pricing and packaging particulars for Windows Server 2008.
This means there will be a total of eight different editions of Windows Server 2008. Three of them will include Hyper-V by default—the Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter editions.
With Standard edition, customers can run a single instance of Hyper-V per server license, while the Enterprise edition can run four. The Datacenter edition allows customers to run unlimited instances of Hyper-V.
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