This has been long awaited expectation by many administrators. Many administrators kept away from HYPER-V saying no compatibility with Open Source Operating systems despite Microsoft support for Suse Enterprise OS. Now that waiting is over since Microsoft and RedHat officially announce their compatibility for running their OS on HYPER-V. Info can be found over here
This agreement is very important for both giants in many ways and same goes for the customers. Let that to be discuss in another post. So go ahead and enjoy he benefit 🙂