This full length session discusses how Microsoft sees virtualisation in the market place.
Some highlights:
- Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 2 is expected to RTM in Q1 2007.
- A commitment to release the Windows "Longhorn" Hypervisor within 180 days of WIndows "Longhorn" RTM.
- The Hypervisor will be around 700KB in size … that’s the entire OS that will run on the physical host!
- 64bit CPU’s with Intel/AMD virtual technology are required.
- There will be support for 32bit and 64bit VM’s.
- VM’s can have up to 8 CPU’s.
- A VM will be able to have 32GB+ RAM.
- You can hot-add RAM, CPU, storage and network.
- You can run more than 64 VM’s on a host, depending on host hardware.
- An MMC 3.0 snap-in will be used to manage Windows "Longhorn" Hypervisor.
- A tunable MOM 2005 management pack is on the way for automatically identifying virtualisation candidates.