Hyper-V is Microsoft's server virtualization technology built-in to Windows Server 2008. Virtual Machine Manager 2008 is a System Center add-on that helps organizations better manage their virtual guest images, delegate administration and management, and even extract virtual images from existing physical and virtual servers. This book, Hyper-V Unleashed, was written by authors Rand Morimoto and Jeff Guillet who have worked with Hyper-V and VMM/2008 for well over a year prior to the formal product release. Dozens of organizations trusted Hyper-V enough to put it into full production environments before formal product release. This book covers: * Assessment of the resource demands of existing physical servers * Analysis of the assessment data to determine the right size host servers to acquire * Architecture planning and design * Step-by-step hands-on assistance * Disaster recovery steps for recovering Exchange