Hyper-V 3.0 and new virtual hard drive format VHDX found in Windows 8 build 7989

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We have already seen couple of new features in Windows 8, today Robert McLaws has revealed the presence of Hyper-V 3.0 in Windows 8.Another feature that has been found in Windows 8 build 7989 is the new Virtual Hard Disk format VHDX. VHDX is capable of supporting disks larger than 2 TB upto 16 TB and can be used from OS starting from Windows 8.



The other new features which has been uncovered by Robert in this build are-
 
 ■ Storage

    ■ Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter

    ■ Storage Resource Pools

    ■ New .VHDX virtual hard drive format (Up to 16TB + power failure resiliency)

 ■ Memory/Processor Enhancements

    ■ Support for more than 4 cores!

    ■ NUMA – Memory per Node, Cores per Node, Nodes per Processor Socket

 ■ Networking Enhancements

    ■ Hardware Acceleration (Virtual Machine Queue & IPsec Offload)

    ■ Bandwidth Management

    ■ DHCP Guard

    ■ Router Guard

    ■ Monitor Port

    ■ Virtual Switch Extensions
 
    ■ Network Resource Pools