Hyper-V and its future, according to Microsoft

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I read this little interview about Microsoft Hyper-V technology and where it will go. Mentioned was the fact that they will try to embed HyperV on hardware, like Vmware is doing right now with ESX 3i… Interesting. Would you buy a server with Hyper-V and ESX 3i embedded? Simultaniously even?

The next version (not this upcoming release) of Hyper-V will apparantly use CPU virtualization optimizations. What? It’s not using that already? The technology has been out there for at least a year…

Microsoft also wants Hyper-V to be able to share memory between VMs. Sounds like page sharing. Hasn’t VMware patended this? Oh dear, good luck…

Using a Microsoft tool to manage both Hyper-V and ESX virtual machines? You know, if a company decides to run two technologies together in the same environment you have to question its vision on virtualization. Using two technologies at the same time will not let you use the true potention of your virtual infrastructure. The big thing that might happen ofcourse (Microsoft is betting on this) is that people will V2V the VMware VMs to the HyperV machine. Sure, let’s go from a proven stable platform to this new platform, using a patched on managment tool to talk to the other management tool. Rule one in managing servers: Don’t change it when it is working well and meeting business demands. I cannot imagine this has been a customer request.

Also, comparing the release version of Hyper-V with VMware is kinda odd, seeing as HyperV is still in beta and not released yet…

Too many features and too little time, folks. Let’s see how this first version will turn out, ok?