Hyper-V Clusters and Licensing

A fully redundant Hyper-V cluster is cheap! If you buy Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition, you can load up to 4 virtual machine instances. Datacenter edtion is unlimited. And if you use the server core, you can save time and money by not having to patch the host as often. Here is what it would look like to build out a Hyper-V cluster with hardware costing under $3,000: