Hyper V Training An Inside Look on Microsofts New Product
February 23rd, 2009. Published under Computers. No Comments.
Well the final version of this MS product has been released, people have been downloading it since late 2008. Unfortunatly we are not talking about the new avatar system for MS’s successful console system the 360. No, we are talking about Windows Server 2008 Hyper V.
In October I attended a TechNet Server and Tools event keynote held in London, at which Microsofts CEO Steve Ballmer announced the release of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 to an audience of over 700 IT professionals. We had a sneak peak at some of the features of Hyper-V v2.0 such as live migration and dynamic memory distribution to name a few.
I must say virtualization is a revolutionary technology that has been around, funny enough for over 40 years! Now I know that this may not sound so thrilling to some of you, more so since as far as virtualization of operating systems is concerned, VMware has pretty much dominated the market for a number of years, but I recommend that you delve deeper into the technology and read more about the many features and major improvements Hyper-V now offers.
Virtualization it is an all-green solution that allows you to save not only on energy costs for powering and cooling your servers, but also on hardware, overhead and overall operational costs by consolidating your servers and network storage. Another reason why you might want to look into virtualization is hardware underutilisation.
Logs of IT performance indicate the average server utilisation of CPU is roughly 7 percent. But when you run a few virtual servers you seamlessly maximise resource outage without neglecting performance. This is the case with a ratio of 1:10, in other words you run ten virtual servers on a single physical server.
Another new and exciting product launched by Microsoft is without a doubt Server Core. This is a pretty bare operating system which is stripped of the .NET framework and therefore can only run certain roles that do not depend on the framework such as domain name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Network Load Balancing (NLB) and other basic roles.
At the end of the day it is still a very powerful operating system that can always be maintained and configured through the command line interface using MS PowerShell. I am confident IT administrators will always find this overall power useful for their daily tasks.
If this all sounds appealing to you then you must start to look into things like hyper v training or other virtualisation training courses. Whether it is for yourself or for your business. Many thanks for reading