Microsoft releases Hyper-V
After a long wait, Microsoft has finally officially released Hyper-V, its hypervisor. This product represents a major step forward in the world of virtualization at Microsoft, because, unlike its predecessors, it is a true hypervisor features a microkernel about 1MB written entirely from scratch by engineers at Redmond. Similarly to what happens to many competitors derived from Xen (XenServer as Virual and Iron) and in older versions of VMware ESX, a large part of the management is entrusted to a parent partition, which in this case consists of Windows Server 2008 version or full core.
Here are some of the salient features of the product:
- Support for virtual machines 32 and 64 bit
- Supports up to 4 virtual CPUs per VM
- Support up to 64GB RAM per VM
- Support for Windows 2008/2003/2000, Windows XP / Vista and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux
- Quick Migration (the possibilitàthe to suspend, migrate and restart a VM from one host to another)
- Automatic updates through Windows Update and WSUS
The product is fully integrated into Windows Server 2008 64bit and download this operating system also includes the NCP hypervisor. Those who have already installed the beta or release candidate versions can upgrade via Windows Update beginning July 8.
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