Microsoft virtualization technology Hyper-V reinstalled

Microsoft announced the release of Hyper-V to the manufacturing industry last weekend. In just a few minutes, major media began to report this.

Microsoft has repeatedly announced that it will release Hper-V within 2008 days after Windows Server 180 is released. Although Microsoft removed several key features from the original Hyper-V design to ensure that they released a high-quality and highly stable product, microsoft still failed to fulfill the 8-month deadline it promised.

After three years of R & D work, Hyper-V has been launched. Now, Microsoft has its first Virtual Machine monitor. This Is A virtualization system management technology that Microsoft can be proud of. Microsoft has full confidence in Hyper-V, we hope to share a piece of cake in the promising virtual market. Previously, Microsoft was always in a very embarrassing situation when compared with other companies' server virtualization technologies, such as VMware, Citrix, Virtual Iron, RedHat, Oracle, Sun, and Parallels. Although Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 has implemented some functions to some extent and fills the gaps in the virtualization family, it still cannot compare with the performance and functions of its "bare metal" competitors, even if Microsoft releases the software to users for free.

Microsoft said Hyper-V will provide customers with a reliable, scalable, and high-performance virtualization platform, this platform can be inserted into the customer's existing IT infrastructure, so that users can combine some of the most labor-intensive work to reduce their work intensity.

"For users who buy Windows Server 2008, the benefits they get are not just scalability, high performance, and reliability-as we all know, after the Hyper-V release, they can also greatly benefit from integrated virtualization, "said Bill Hilf, general manager of Microsoft's Windows Server marketing and platform strategy department.

Hilf said that on Microsoft's official website, there have been more than one million comments on Hyper-V, more than 250 Customers participated in the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V early user program. Land O 'Lakes, HotSchedules, And The Scooter Store are one of The first customers who deploy The Hyper-V virtualization platform and experience The benefits it brings.

Microsoft has also been using Hyper-V to transform its laboratory business processes and operate its own websites. As early as March, Microsoft successfully transplanted its MSDN website, and then in April, it transplanted the TechNet website. To continue to launch a high-performance website, Microsoft also virtualized 25% of the product transaction load of the Microsoft.com website. By the beginning of July, they expected that virtualization could handle 50% of the load. Finally, once Microsoft has deployed its new hardware infrastructure in various scattered data centers, all the product loads of Microsoft.com can be virtualized.

Whether the existing servers of customers and partners are regarded as candidates for using Hyper-V virtualization, Microsoft's Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) both the Toolkit 3.1 Test version will work. It can help users speed up the planning and deployment of virtualization. The final version of MAP 3.1 is expected to be released in March and will be free of charge.

In addition, more than 130 independent software vendors have certified a total of 2008 Windows Server 150 applications. The first three vendors that have received Certified for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V certification are Symantec, Diskeeper, and IBM. If an application is awarded this certification title, it indicates that the application has successfully passed the Independent Test of Hyper-V and can use the Hper-V function, and can meet the needs of key tasks in a virtual environment. Along this line of thinking, original equipment manufacturers and suppliers, such as Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Fujitsu Limited, HP, IBM, NEC, Sun Microsystems, and Unisys, all are eligible to use Hyper-release and create a system. At present, a total of 250 systems from various major servers and white box supply have been certified by Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V.

Now, Hyper-V users must wait for the release of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008). This product is still in the testing stage, this system center virtualization is a manager that enables users to manage their own Hyper-v environments more effectively.

New customers of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 can now download and use Hyper-V from Microsoft's official website. For those who have started using this virtualization technology in the early days, microsoft said they will be able to Update their Hyper-v platform installed before July 15, July 8, when Microsoft will Update Windows Update) to release the Hyper-v upgrade package.

BKJIA Editor note: Hyper-V cannot be uninstalled after installation.

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V 64-bit:
Http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/ B /f/8bfabc2a-4fa5-4325-8ea7-21d474602293/Windows6.0-KB950050-x64.msu

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V 32-bit:
Http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/0/f/d0ffe812-9cb5-4fb1-89e2-471642b75a4b/Windows6.0-KB950050-x86.msu

Hyper-V multi-country Language Pack 64-bit:
Http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/7/4/2748315b-4faf-454f-8b12-263acee37c79/Windows6.0-KB951636-x64.msu

Hyper-V multi-country Language Pack 32-bit:
Http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/c/c/8cc7b354-9c14-4acc-921a-3273ad667f67/Windows6.0-KB951636-x86.msu

Vista 64-bit remote management patch:
Http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/0/e/10ed8801-b2f9-43aa-bcd1-25a5b53699f4/Windows6.0-KB952627-x64.msu

Vista 32-bit remote management patch:
Http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/2/a/e2ac64a6-d545-46fc-94ee-579ba22107c1/Windows6.0-KB952627-x86.msu

Knowledge Base Article:
Http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950050/en-us]

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