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Microsoft's Hyper-V Competes with EMC's VMware
For quite some time now, VMware, now a part or EMC has been the leader in virtualization technology.
VMware and its virtualization technology allows muliple software systems, each of which used to require a separate hardware box, to be run on a single server.
This ability to leverage one server's resources was accomplished by virtualizing the hardware and its settings so that one server could act like multiple different servers each with its own settings, software and interfaces.
Having experienced a fair amount of success, as of the beginning of this year, EMC and VMware has competition from Microsoft and its Beta release of its Hyper-V(TM) initiative.
Towards that end, Hyper-V(TM) is available in Windows Server 2008 RC1 with Hyper-V Beta. So just what is Microsoft's Hyper-V?
Hyper-V is an infrastructure with an administrative toolset empowering users to successfully manage and maintain virtualized servers.
According to Microsoft, Hyper-V's key benefits are: its ability to reduce the costs of operating and maintaining physical servers by increasing your hardware utilization, its ability to increase development and test efficiency by reducing the amount of time it takes to set up hardware and software and reproduce test environments, its ability to improve server availability without using as many physical computers as you would need in a failover configuration that uses only physical computers and its ability to increase or reduce server resources in response to changes in demand.
It appears likely that as Hyper-V matures and becomes a true release, its ability to be integrated into the Microsoft infrastructure will give Hyper-V distinct advantages. |
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