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    • Archive for December, 2008

    Top 10 reasons to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2

    Friday, December 19th, 2008

    As you may know, Microsoft is developing new and improved version of Windows Server 2008, which will be called Windows Server 2008 R2. This version should hit the market in the middle of the 2009 (as far as I know), and it will bring us some cool new features and improved old functions. There is [...]

    Microsoft virtualization – from datacenter to desktop

    Sunday, December 7th, 2008

    Microsoft has variety of virtualization products, and with those products Microsoft is world’s virtualization leader. Using Microsoft virtualization products, you can virtualize everything possible to virtualize . If you need Remote Access, you can use Presentation Virtualization, and that is Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services. Terminal Services role in Windows Server 2008 has [...]

    Microkernelized hypervizor

    Thursday, December 4th, 2008

    In the last post from the series “Virtualization types”, I’m gonna explain you microkernelized hypervizor, model that is used in Windows Server 2008 for server virtualization. Comparing to monolithic hypervizor, microkernelized hypervizor has no drivers running within it. Instead, all drivers are run in each partition so that each guest OS running within a virtual [...]

    Monolithic hypervizor

    Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

    In the monolithic model of Type 1 virtualization, the hypervizor has it’s own drivers for accessing the hardware beneath it. Guest OSs run in VMs on the top of the hypervizor, and when a guest needs to access hardware it does so through the hypervizor and it’s driver model. Typically, one of these guest OSs [...]

    Windows Server 2008 R2 new features

    Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

    Michael Pietroforte from http://4sysops.com wrote a series of articles about Windows Server 2008 R2 new features. Windows Server 2008 R2 will hit the market very soon, providing new and improving old technologies. I won’t copy-paste all articles here, but here is the list of the most interesting (for me) features:

    Hyper-V Live Migration
    Virtual Desktop [...]