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Where Microsoft is heading with Virtualization

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Mike Neil just posted a very good summary of our Virtualization strategy. Mike Neil is General Manager Virtualization Strategy at Microsoft. He's responsible for planning, development and strategy of our Virtualization technology.

In his recent post Mike talks about

  • Product Strategy
  • SoftGrid
  • KVM
  • Novell
  • XenSource
  • Licensing

Mike concludes with "Does this mean everything will be virtualized in 5 years? Not likely due to continuing innovation at the hardware and software level, and the fact that no solution applies to everyone. That said, virtualization will become the default setting in the operating system – whether that’s Windows or other OSes in the market. "

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  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2007
    I know the title is a bit weird, but it sounds better tan the boring "Microsoft Virtualization Roadmap".

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2007
    The ability to move a virtual server from one physical server to another in a matter of minutes is one of my favorite features. Team Foundation Server is just about the most complex product I've ever had to setup. Tying TFS to a physical server, as opposed to a virtual one, will ultimately require a server rebuild when it comes time for a system upgrade. Not so for a virtual TFS server. Stop the virtual machine, copy, paste, grab cup of coffee, start virtual machine, and my upgrade is complete.

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2007
    Jack, Yes I thought that would be an obvious answer, and it is a good one! In my environment applications like tfs (which we don't use), I have migration paths that allows me to copy configs from one server to another with little more then a quick restore from an iscsi backend (the apps do not exist in c:program files) and quick import of application settings, yes the vm way is faster and can be more reliable but I've not experienced problems with my methodology.