Hyper V Training An Inside Look
March 14, 2009 by Scott Heron
Filed under Online Colleges
Big old Microsoft have finally opened the floodgates to the final version of it and its been available on download since august 2008. We aint talking about the latest version of the 360′s avatar characters, no, the main talking point here is windows 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.
There is no question about the advantages of virtualisation, its an environmentally friendly solution which will give way to saving energy costs for your infrastructure, but will also reduce the overheads of hardware costs by consolidating servers and networks. Not only that, the aspect of hardware underutilisation is also important.
Performance logs indicate that on average server CPU utilization is approximately 7 percent only. By running multiple virtual servers on one physical server you can maximise resource usage without affecting performance, in many cases up to a ratio of 1:10, i.e. run 10 virtual servers on one 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 hyper v is something you would consider useful for yourself or your business then it wise to research the many hyper v training courses out there to show you the ropes. Thanks for reading