Hyper-v and interop in a mix world

1. Amit Cohen
Platform Strategy Manager Virtual interoperability

2. • Interoperability
• Standardization in heterogeneous world
• Alliances and partnership
• Virtualization Support certification

3. Operational
Workflows
People Processes
Policies
Semantic
Information
DB/Files
Data Metadata
Technical
Applications
Infrastructure
Optimizing performance
Diverse Systems
within and among organizations

4. Listen to and work Participate in
Deliberate delivery
with customers, standards bodies Make Microsoft
of interoperability in
partners, and and support product technology assets
Microsoft products
competitors to build standards to foster available to others
and technologies
bridges and coexist interoperability

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7. Host operating system Hyper-v
Guest Guest Operating Operating
OS OS System System
Application
App App Application
Application
Application
App
Type II Hypervisor Application
Application Application
Host Operating System
Type I Hypervisor
Hardware Hardware

9. Infrastructure Applications Management Interoperability Licensing
Virtual Server 2005 Accelerate Ease consolidation Heterogeneous Instance based
and Windows Server deployment onto virtual support for Linux licensing for
2003 make cost infrastructure Windows Server
effective Reduce the cost VHD Open
virtualization combo of supporting Better utilize Specifications Unlimited
applications management Promise instances with
Windows Server resources Windows Server
virtualization is a Turn applications Standards Efforts Data Center
component of into dynamic, Free up IT spend DMTF: Standard APIs
Edition and
for VM management
Windows Server real-time PCI-SIG: Standards for SQL Server
“Longhorn” services I/O virtualization Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Support

11. Developing adapter layer to map Xen hypercall API to
Hyper-V hypercall API
• Developing disk and networking drivers (VSCs) to
integrate with the new I/O architecture
Interoperability and joint support for Windows Server and
Novel SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
• Support for Linux on “Hyper-V”

12. “Virtualization without good management is more dangerous than
not using virtualization in the first place.”
Thomas Bittman, Analyst, Gartner
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14. • 3rd party Application support
• Microsoft certification – SVVP

15. • Open standards.
• Virtualization business agility.
• Future of our business.