IT Infrastructure

Microsoft Hyper-V Features & Benefits

Organisations are incorporating virtualisation into their businesses to reap benefits such as reduced IT costs and improvements in IT effiiciency. Servers, operating systems and applications can be provisioned in a fraction of the time previously required, so that end users can get the resources they need when they need them.

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 provides a reliable and optimised virtualisation solution, enabling improved server utilisation and reduced costs. Since Hyper-V Server is a dedicated standalone product, which contains only Windows Hypervisor and the virtualisation components, it provides a small footprint and minimal overhead. management, support tools, processes and skills.

With live migration, host clustering and cluster shared volume support included in the product, customers can get increased availability with support for both planned and unplanned downtime.

Key Benefitsof Microsoft Hyper-V

1. Better flexibility: Hyper-V provides high availability and dynamic migration capabilities during both planned and unplanned downtime via live migration and failover clustering, across a broader range of Hyper-V host hardware, providing the flexibility of a dynamic IT infrastructure.
   
   With Hyper-V, customers can use a single set of tools to manage both their physical and virtual resources. It easily plugs into customers’ IT infrastructure because they can leverage their existing patching, provisioning, management, support tools, and processes.
    
2. Improved performance: Hyper-V leverages several new processor, memory management and networking technologies supplied by both Microsoft’s partner eco-system as well as in Windows Server 2008 R2 to improve overall host and virtual machine performance.                                                    
   
   By enabling virtual machines to take advantage of powerful features like multi-core technology, improved disk access, and greater memory support, Hyper-V improves scalability and performance of the virtualisation platform.
    
3. Greater Scalability: Hyper-V provides better reliability and greater scalability which allows you to virtualise your infrastructure. It has a thin, microkernelised hypervisor architecture with a minimal attack surface, and is available as a server core role.
   
   With support for up to 64 logical processors, CPU core parking and processor power management, Hyper-V can handle the most demanding workloads while reducing server power consumption.