| Well the final version of this MS product has been | | | | servers and network storage. Another reason why |
| released, people have been downloading it since late | | | | you might want to look into virtualization is hardware |
| 2008. Unfortunately we are not talking about the | | | | underutilisation. |
| new avatar system for MS's successful console | | | | Logs of IT performance indicate the average server |
| system the 360. No, we are talking about Windows | | | | utilisation of CPU is roughly 7 percent. But when you |
| Server 2008 Hyper V. | | | | run a few virtual servers you seamlessly maximise |
| Late last year, I went to a technet server keynote | | | | resource outage without neglecting performance. This |
| in London city, MS CEO Steve Ballmer gave a speech | | | | is the case with a ratio of 1:10, in other words you |
| regarding the product of MS hyper v server 2008 to | | | | run ten virtual servers on a single physical server. |
| a crowd of 700 plus IT industry pro's. We managed | | | | Another new and exciting product launched by |
| to get a preview of the features of hyper v. Things | | | | Microsoft is without a doubt Server Core. This is a |
| such as migration and memory distributions were | | | | pretty bare operating system which is stripped of |
| covered. | | | | the .NET framework and therefore can only run |
| I must say virtualization is a revolutionary technology | | | | certain roles that do not depend on the framework |
| that has been around, funny enough for over 40 | | | | such as Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host |
| years! Now I know that this may not sound so | | | | Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Network Load |
| thrilling to some of you, more so since as far as | | | | Balancing (NLB) and other basic roles. |
| virtualization of operating systems is concerned, | | | | At the end of the day it is still a very powerful |
| VMware has pretty much dominated the market for | | | | operating system that can always be maintained and |
| a number of years, but I recommend that you delve | | | | configured through the command line interface using |
| deeper into the technology and read more about the | | | | MS PowerShell. I am confident IT administrators will |
| many features and major improvements Hyper-V | | | | always find this overall power useful for their daily |
| now offers. | | | | tasks. |
| Virtualization it is an all-green solution that allows you | | | | If hyper v is something you would consider useful for |
| to save not only on energy costs for powering and | | | | yourself or your business then it wise to research |
| cooling your servers, but also on hardware, overhead | | | | the many hyper v training courses out there to show |
| and overall operational costs by consolidating your | | | | you the ropes. |