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http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/hyper-v-server/buy.aspx

Is this product truly free to use in a commercial environment? I plan on migrating from ESXi and this seems like the ideal solution.

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Yes. Possible duplicate of this question: serverfault.com/questions/113339/will-hyper-v-always-be-free – Nic Jan 30 at 19:40
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Yes. Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is free.

Download here.

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Upvote. Keep in mind though, that even though the hypervisor is free, that doesn't mean all your guest OSes are free too. ;) – Ryan Ries Jan 30 at 20:50
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Hyperv comes with Windows Server 2008, which isn't free. Also depending on the edition, you get X number of free Virtual OS hosts.

So you could get "free" windows 2008 server as a virtual, but you'd have to buy Windows 2008 Datacenter.

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You need to do a little more reading on the subject. – ErnieTheGeek Jan 30 at 19:47
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