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Hyper-V Server 2022
Free 'Microsoft Hyper-V Server' product update
Since its introduction over a decade ago in Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V technology has been, and continues to be, the foundation of Microsoft’s hypervisor platform. Hyper-V is a strategic technology for Microsoft. Microsoft continues to invest heavily in Hyper-V for a variety of scenarios such as virtualization, security, containers, gaming, and more. Hyper-V is used in Azure, Azure Local, Windows Server, Windows Client, and Xbox among others.
Starting with Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019, the free ‘Microsoft Hyper-V Server’ product has been deprecated and is the final version of that product. Hyper-V Server 2019 is a free product available for download from the Microsoft Evaluation Center: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2019
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 will continue to be supported under its lifecycle policy until January 2029, see this link for additional information: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/hyperv-server-2019.
While Microsoft has made a business decision to no longer offer the free 'Microsoft Hyper-V Server' product, this has no impact to the many other products which include the Hyper-V feature and capabilities. This change has no impact to any customers who use Windows Server or Azure Local.
For customers looking to do test or evaluation of the Hyper-V feature, Azure Local includes a 60-day free trial and can be downloaded here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-local/ . Windows Server offers a free 180-day evaluation which can be downloaded from the Evaluation Center here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter
Microsoft remains committed to meeting customers where they are and delivering innovation for on-premises virtualization and bringing unique hybrid capabilities like no other can combined with the power of Azure Arc. We are announcing that Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 was the last version of the free download product and that customers begin transitioning to one of the several other products which include Hyper-V or consider Azure.
Thank you,
Elden Christensen
Principal Group PM Manager
Windows Server Development Team
riahc3 Or just remain on Hyper-V 2019, even after it ceases to get new updates... in eight years.
I presently have several systems still running Hyper-V 2012r2 as their processors do not support SLAT/EPT, being Dual-Socket Pentium D 950's. VT, yes, VT-X, no.
There is no reason to upgrade those systems beyond their current OS'.
- 46.1K Views, and not consideration about MS...
Let it rest, guys.
These sorts of exchanges provide no value to the discussion and frequently only serve to get a thread locked.
I'd prefer not to see that happen in this instance as while Elden's feedback has been infrequent, at least someone is/has been officially keeping tabs on this thread. Getting advanced word of intent (whichever the direction) from someone like Elden is possibly the only avenue we have prior to everything simply going GA and we have to run around like we're on fire to react to that kind of "zero notice" approach.
So, again, please let cooler heads prevail in this thread.
bmartindcs Certainly no one who uses Microsoft products can also care about security.
