Introduction

Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. Both Windows Server 2022 and Windows 10 include Hyper-V as an option you can install, on all versions of Windows Server 2022, and the Enterprise, Professional, and Education editions of Windows 10.

Microsoft first released Hyper-V with Server 2008 and has improved it significantly with each successive version of Windows Server. Improvements include additional features, support for the latest hardware, and significantly increased scalability.

Hyper-V supports nested virtualization, the ability to run Hyper-V inside a Hyper-V VM. Nested virtualization has some good use cases, such as in training – for instance, giving each student a VM on a large blade containing the VMs needed for the course labs. Nested virtualization provides an additional layer of security that might be useful in multi-tenant scenarios.

Microsoft also ships a free version of Hyper-V, the Microsoft Hyper-V Server. The Hyper...