Microsoft Virtualization - Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft Virtualization and Optimized Data Center

The combination of the Microsoft virtualization and management solutions can let you run the applications you currently have—whether Microsoft or VMware—on a reliable and powerful infrastructure, saving you downtime, additional costs, and administrative overhead. You can consolidate essential business workloads to reduce physical server sprawl and support your business with less cost. In addition to helping reduce its environmental footprint, your organization can benefit from lower power, cooling, and management costs.

Fit Your Budget

Microsoft virtualization and management products are priced so that you can purchase only what you need and add on as your business grows. Although Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and System Center Essentials are designed to work together, each offers excellent benefits.

Hyper-V: a feature of Windows Server 2008.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: powerful virtual systems management, especially for systems running on Hyper-V platforms.
System Center Essentials 2007: powerful management for physical & virtual systems and, when run with Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager,
provides enhanced management of virtual machines.
Multi-vendor virtualization platform support: comprehensive support for VMware VI3 included moving virtual machines among virtual hosts
with no downtime via VMotion, through integration with VMware’s Virtual Center

Count On Interoperability

The Microsoft virtualization platform provides small and midsized businesses with a much greater offering and can help troubleshoot extremely difficult issues that may or may not be the result of running under virtualization. In fact, Microsoft solution provides support for virtual machines running on VMware ESX infrastructure and Microsoft® Virtual Server. Many other vendor’s products on the market only manage the virtualization aspects of the vendor’s target host servers and virtual machines.