The Windows Server Virtualisation Platform

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The Windows Server Virtualisation Platform

Dec 11, 2008

60 minutes

Event Details

Joseph Maglitta - Sr. Editorial Director, Events - Ziff Davis Enterprise

Kay Minehart - Worldwide Software Product Manager - Unisys

Mark Stanoch - Director, Microsoft Solutions Marketing - Unisys

Michael Cherry - Lead Analyst, Windows and Mobile
Windows Server 2008 now includes Hyper-V, Microsoft’s new technology for hardware virtualisation. The technology enables organisations to reduce the number of physical servers in their computing infrastructure and increase the efficiency of existing servers by breaking the bonds between workloads and physical servers. For Microsoft, hardware virtualisation offers an opportunity to move customers to the new Windows Server 2008, and Microsoft partners can assist customers in planning and migration of existing computing workloads and applications to a virtualised environment and with ongoing management of virtual machines. However, hardware virtualisation introduces significant new hardware requirements and new management, support, and licensing challenges.

This presentation will outline the hardware virtualisation software that Microsoft offers, looks at the tools Microsoft provides for managing virtualised servers, and examines licensing and support implications of deploying hardware virtualisation.

You will learn:
- What hardware virtualisation products Microsoft offers, the roadmap for these products going forward
- What tools Microsoft offers to manage Virtual Machines running on its and other vendors' virtualisation technologies
- How licensing and support can impact your hardware virtualisation plans
- How Microsoft partners can assist customers in planning and migration of existing computing workloads and applications to a virtualised environment
Microsoft

Unisys