In a review of Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 R2, we have seen so far what runs under the hood. It's time to turn the ignition on and give this masterpiece a test run. Hyper-V has become quite popular and has been adopted as a virtualization platform by many major organizations. Not only that, it is also rocking the charts in India and a few other countries already. Microsoft has delivered the promised stability and resilience of the product and kept it quite economical for all segments.

Now before you get excited and get set to adopt Hyper-V, you must realize the use case. This question should have an affirmative response: does your environment workload support virtualization? The next step is to identify your requirements, prepare the design plans, and work on a road map. After the design plans, deployment and implementation needs to be worked out, entailing all the hardware and software complexities of setting up and configuring the hosts...