Microsoft launches Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

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Following the launch of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited today announced the global launch of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, its hypervisor-based virtualization offering that will play a key role in delivering next generation virtualization solutions to customers. The launch of Hyper-V is a significant step ahead in Microsoft's vision to provide enterprises with a mission critical virtualization offering that will allow them to further reduce IT costs, improve server utilization and progress towards achieving self-managing IT infrastructures. Hyper-V is currently available as a feature with select editions of Windows Server 2008. During the pilot phase, nearly 1.5 million copies of the Hyper-V beta version have already been distributed worldwide. The final version of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-V .

 

At the time of launch, over 130 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) have certified a total of 150 applications on Windows Server 2008. Symantec, Diskeeper and IBM are the first three vendors to achieve the new 'Certified for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V' designation. This designation identifies applications that have been independently tested to exploit Hyper-V capabilities and meet mission-critical expectations in a virtualized environment.  In addition, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) such as Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., HP, IBM, NEC, Sun Microsystems and Unisys are already qualified to ship and create systems with Hyper-V. In all, 250 systems from server and white-box vendors are also logo-qualified for Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V.

 

Commenting on the launch of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Ms. Pallavi Kathuria, Director - Server Business Group, Microsoft India said, "Announcing the availability of Hyper-V is a vital part of Microsoft's larger virtualization strategy, which forms the foundation of our "Dynamic IT" vision. Starting today, customers can use Microsoft's virtualization software to deliver the right computing resources to people anytime and anywhere, thus creating information technology systems that are more efficient, flexible, and cost effective."

 

"Customers who buy Windows Server 2008 are not only getting the scalability benefits, high performance and reliability, and all the great things that Windows Server is known for; as of today they can benefit from integrated virtualization with Hyper-V. We have achieved tremendous success during the pilot phase of Hyper-V, and are extremely excited about the final availability of the product today." added Ms. Kathuria.

 

Virtualization can help companies maximize the value of IT investments, decreasing the server hardware footprint, energy consumption and cost and complexity of managing IT systems while increasing the flexibility of the overall environment. With a unique holistic approach towards this technology, Microsoft offers a comprehensive set of virtualization products, from the data center to desktop assets - both virtual and physical - that are managed from a single platform.

 

Hyper-V offers a reliable, scalable and high-performance virtualization platform that plugs into customer's existing IT infrastructures and helping them consolidate some of the most demanding workloads. As the next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V allows customers to make the best use of their server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine. With Hyper-V, users also may efficiently run multiple different operating systems in parallel on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing. Additionally, the Microsoft System Center suite of products gives customers a single set of integrated tools to manage physical and virtual resources, helping customers create a more agile and dynamic datacenter.

 

More than 250 customers have participated in the early adopter programs for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and benefited across areas like Improved Architecture, Broad OS Support, Network Load Balancing, Hardware Sharing Architecture, Quick Migration, Scalability and Extensibility. Globally, Land O'Lakes, HotSchedules and The SCOOTER Store are among the first customers to deploy Hyper-V and experience its benefits.

 

To help both customers and partners assess whether their existing servers are good candidates for virtualization using Hyper-V, Microsoft has released the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 3.1 Beta to help accelerate virtualization planning and deployment. The final release of MAP 3.1 is expected in July and will be available for free at http://www.microsoft.com/MAP. MAP belongs to a family of Microsoft Virtualization Solution Accelerators including Infrastructure Planning and Design guides and the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool.

 

Attachments:

·         Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Screenshot1: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V supports virtual machines with up to four virtual cores, 32-bit as well as 64-bit operating systems, and up to 64 GB of RAM

·        Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Screenshot2: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V's easy-to-use Virtual Machine Creation wizard allows administrators to quickly create and provision new virtual machines. 

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