Microsoft <3 RedHat? Microsoft and RedHat cross-certify hypervisors, cooperate on technical support

Well, maybe that’s pushing it, but some very good news this week on hypervisor interoperability and management of  heterogeneous environments… Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines are now certified and supported to run on Windows Server’s Hyper-V hypervisor, and vice-versa.  Details, courtesy of the Windows Virtualization team blog: 

• • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 have passed cert tests when running on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. See more at RedHat's certified hardware site.

  • Windows Server 2003/ Windows Server 2008 / Windows Server 2008 R2 are validated to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, using their KVM-based hypervisor. See more at Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program site.

    Additionally, Red Hat will now provide technical support for JBOSS running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM managed by Windows Server’s Hyper-V hypervisor.

    Mike Neil is the general manager of the Windows Server and Server Virtualization team… check out his post for more details on the interoperability work with Red Hat, Microsoft’s contribution to the Linux kernal, and what it means for System Center management of mixed (Windows, Unix, Linux) environments.

    Almost every customer has a mixed environment these days… great to see the industry finding ways to come together to enable customers.

Technorati Tags: Microsoft,interoperability,virtualization