Tuesday, August 12, 2014

What Is Hyper-V Virtualization Platform?

Nowadays, virtualization techniques are becoming a lot popular in the IT field. The benefit of using such solutions is that they offer a flexible, reliable and faster disaster recovery solution. Microsoft provides one such virtualization solution by the name of Hyper-V or Microsoft Hypervisor Based Server Virtualization Technology. This service provides a virtual platform for businesses and help in their growth.

As stated in the Microsoft support site, Hyper-V was released in 2008 and is available in a total of four versions i.e. Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008. The microkernelized hypervisor architecture of Hyper-V enables the users to virtualize their infrastructure. This enables the users to effectively manage their virtual and physical resources with only one set of tools. Moreover, the IT professionals are also able to increase the productivity of the organization by maximizing their process, management and provisioning of resources.

The 64-bit microkernelized hypervisor architecture in Hyper-V makes it support a number of devices by ensuring improved security and performance of the system. Microsoft Hyper-V is a standalone and shortened version of Windows Server where Microsoft has omitted every aspect that is irrelevant to virtualization, devices as well as Graphical user interface. This is done to make the server as small as possible. By doing so, the Windows Server would also require less maintenance time and would be less vulnerable to security issues. If you check the Microsoft Support Site, you will get to know more about the features of this virtualization program. It has been mentioned that this hybrid supervisor, although is installed from the OS, redesigns the architecture of the operating system completely and hence, works as an adjacent layer to the physical hardware.

Installing Hyper-V involves almost the same process of installing any other program. First, you need to check the type of Windows version you’re running in your system. This is because if you’re running an older version of Windows server that is prior 2008, you would need to upgrade to a newer version before you try installing Hyper-V. Once you have successfully installed the program, your computer will reboot. After rebooting, you will be able to notice the additional services in your system, including Hyper-V.

Hence, by installing Hyper-V, you can create, change and delete Virtual Machine. To know more about the features included in Microsoft Hyper-V, you may get in touch with our technical support personnel.

1 comment:

  1. Very interesting and helpful post! Thanks for sharing this with us. Virtualization is the most popular and widely used technology of today. Like MicroSoft, Ricoh India is also providing best data center and hosting services on Cloud Server and also providing data backup and recovery solutions. Disaster recovery and online data backup monitoring RPASS is the service provided by Ricoh Data Center.

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