I’ve been testing Hyper-V since summer 2008 with our long delayed Exchange 2007 server. The results have been great, and now that our Exchange 2007 is live there’s no reason to go back.

Benefits

- It just works like it should

- Microsoft software, so it fits in the Microsoft software ecosystem with all it’s goodness (management, updates, support, etc.)

Downsides

- Hyper-V installs on our 9th generation Dell Severs, but it won’t install on 8th generation servers because they don’t support Intel VT. This really isn’t a big deal because this impacts a single branch office server and Virtual Server will do the job.

Our production and CRM 4 development virtual machines will be converted to Hyper-V, an easy process thanks to Virtual Machine manager.

I’m also planning to eliminate most of our physical servers, managing virtual machines is much easier.