In the last few years, the velocity of virtualization adoption has increased dramatically. Businesses both large and small see the cost savings and management optimizations that virtual servers bring. Changing the ballgame in many ways has been the updated Hyper-V platform, which arrived with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2. This second edition of Hyper-V adds Live Migration and improvements to VM disk storage, as well as a set of performance enhancements that solidifies its place as an enterprise-worthy hypervisor.