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Virtualization Platform Comparison

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Applies To: Hyper-V Server 2012, Hyper-V Server 2012 R2

The following table summarizes the differences between Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 or Hyper-V Server 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.

Hyper-V Server comparison

Capability

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 or Hyper-V Server 2012

Number of logical processors on host

64

320

Maximum supported RAM on host

1 TB

4 TB

Virtual CPUs supported per host

512

2048

Maximum virtual CPUs supported per virtual machine

4

64

Maximum RAM supported per virtual machine

64 GB

1 TB

Maximum running virtual machines supported per host

384

1024

Guest NUMA

No

Yes

Maximum failover cluster nodes supported

16

64

Maximum number of virtual machines supported in failover clustering

1000

8000

See also