Freigeben über

Server Application Virtualization Demo

  • Artikel

I have been around Ireland talking virtualization with Hyper-V and App-V over the last 6 months and one of the questions that always gets asked is what about server applications……well my answer might be changing soon

MMS 2009: Application Virtualization for Servers
As you'll see, Bill's demo was setup by talk about administering the compute fabric and managing deployment of a tightly bound OS can create challenges. By applying application virtualization to this challenge, we can separate apps from the server. This should mean a more simplified, and accelerated, approach to deploying those virtualized apps and patching. Bill pointed out that this leads to reduce image libraries, and accelerated migration.

This video represents the exciting future of virtualization… and Microsoft is the only company that’s doing this. 

The days of maintaining an operating system for each application service deployed will hopefully soon be behind us, and today’s paradigm of running Virtual Machines will be old news.  Why migrate entire virtual machines with operating systems & applications when you can just migrate an Application between physical servers?  Why sustain all the overhead of running 10 instances of the same Windows Server operating system on a single physical host when all you care about are the Application Services that they’re running?

The future is “Virtualized Server Operating Systems”… aka Application Virtualization for Servers.`

Video: App Virt Demo for Servers

Notice in the demo that they’re using a ‘special’ alpha version of Virtual Machine Manager complete with Application Services stored as first class citizens in the library, along side virtual machines and operating systems.  Pairing application services (in this case, the FAST Search/Indexing Engine) with Virtual Machines is now a piece of cake since there’s virtually no ‘friction’ or ties between the running Operating System and the Application Service.  And most importantly, the entire Application Service state can be lifted off of a running OS and placed on an upgraded OS making system upgrades a snap, along with Application Service migration.

Will_2   Will_Signiture2

Share this post : Technet! del.icio.us it! digg it! Facebook it! live it! reddit! technorati!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    ....and Microsoft is the only company that’s doing this.... Nope. AppZero was first www.appzero.com...see this article: Jun 24 2009   5:30PM GMT Appzero dares Microsoft to dive into server app virtualization (http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker/appzero-dares-microsoft-to-dive-into-server-app-virtualization/ ) Posted by: Barbara Darrow One of the many zillion-dollar questions in the cloud computing hypefest is when server-side application virtualization will take off. Upstarts like Appzero want to know why Microsoft and other software  incumbents aren’t jumping on the bandwagon to virtualize big-iron database, ERP and other server-delivered apps. Appzero CEO Greg O’Connor asked the question, and then helpfully answered it in a blog post late last month.   ...