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Serving Up a Big Dose of Virtualization with Windows Server 2008 R2
Posted by Margaret Lewis in 10:53 AM
Loading ...This has been a big week for the Windows Operating System. Along with the much awaited “Release to Manufacturing” (RTM) of Windows 7, we also saw the RTM of Windows Server 2008 R2.
Many of the improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 are centered on Hyper-V, Microsoft’s hypervisor that ships with the product. Noteworthy is the support for Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI), a key feature of AMD-VTM technology that is designed to reduce the complexity of memory handling and enhance performance for demanding applications like web serving and database. My colleague Tim Mueting has an in-depth Q&A on RVI posted on the Doing It Virtual web site if you want a more detailed look at the technology.
In addition Windows Server 2008 R2 offers live migration capabilities. This long awaited functionality, which allows the migration of running VMs between physical hosts, is a standard feature of the basic Server 2008 R2 product as well as with the upcoming Hyper-V 2008 R2 Server. This means you don’t have to pay extra for this key functionality. Hyper-V Live Migration is supported on up to 16 node clusters. AMD OpteronTM processors have included Extend Migration functionality since 2005, designed specifically to enable live migration capabilities in virtualization software. Check out the video on YouTube that showcases Hyper-V Live Migration on AMD Opteron processor-based servers.
Windows Server 2008 R2 is also about scalability offering support of up to 64 processors cores and up to 384 VMs running concurrently per host system in Hyper-V. This provides seamless support for the HP ProLiant DL785 G6 8 Socket featuring Six-Core AMD Opteron processors.
So congratulations to Microsoft on another successful RTM. Check out Jason Perlow’s article for a more in-depth look at Windows Server 2008 R2.
And don’t forget Windows 7 – check out Nigel Dessau’s recent blog to read more about how Windows 7 combined with the upcoming DirectX 11-enabled ATI RadeonTM graphics cards will help deliver what we at AMD like to call The Ultimate Visual ExperienceTM. Another good read is Matt Kimball’s blog on Windows 7 virtualization capabilities.
Margaret Lewis (@margaretjlewis) is a Product Marketing Director at AMD.
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