Introduction

Hyper-V is Microsoft’s virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. Microsoft has made Hyper-V available in all versions of Windows Server 2022 and the Enterprise, Professional, and Education editions of Windows 11. Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11 include Hyper-V as an option you can install.

Microsoft first released Hyper-V with Server 2008 and has improved it significantly with each successive version of Windows Server. Improvements include features, support for the latest hardware, and significantly increased scalability.

A useful feature of Hyper-V is nested virtualization, the ability to run Hyper-V inside a Hyper-V VM. Nested virtualization has some good use cases, such as in training. You could give each student a VM on a large blade containing the VMs needed for the course labs. Nested virtualization also provides an additional layer of security that might be useful in multi-tenant scenarios.

Microsoft previously shipped a free version of Hyper-V, Microsoft...