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Longhorn:: Hypervisor - Windows Server Virtualization Demo

I just posted the TechReady keynote demo, which I talked about earlier, on soapbox.

In this demo you will see:

  • Windows Server Virtualization running on Server Core managed from another Windows Server Longhorn box
  • 64-bit hosts and 32-bit hosts and a Linux running on the same server core box
  • An 8-core virtual machine
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager
  • System Center Operations Manager
  • Monitoring the VMs on the Server Core box 
  • Fire off a PowerShell script to hot-add another NIC to a SQL VHD Image

This demo is just awesome. I loved the PowerShell script where Jeff just added another NIC to a VM.

I can barely wait to get me hands on this kind of technology. Now I am already testing the Longhorn server but once I can get my hand onto the Windows Server Virtualization I will definitely move my VM towards this Technology.


Video: Longhorn - Windows Server Virtualization 

 

Posted: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 11:42 PM by aralves

Comments

MikeW said:

If you visit the url, you will see the page is titled Loghorn :)

Mike

# February 28, 2007 7:02 PM

TrackBack said:

# March 1, 2007 3:50 AM

Dugie's Pensieve said:

Many thanks to Arlindo Alves (Microsoft Belgium) has just posted the Jeff Woolsey's Hypervisor demo on

# March 1, 2007 5:16 AM

TrackBack said:

# March 1, 2007 12:00 PM

TrackBack said:

# March 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Michael Kleef ::: MSFT said:

I got the privilege of seeing this recently - Im very impressed with it and like Ive blogged previously,

# March 1, 2007 8:24 PM

Tony Krijnen said:

Mijn collega Arlindo Alves heeft op zijn blog een demonstratie toegevoegd van de Longhorn Hypervisor. Daarin...

# March 2, 2007 3:45 AM

Clive Watson's Weblog said:

I'm very sure you've all seen this by now...just in case you haven't, you can get more details from Arlindo's

# March 2, 2007 4:43 AM

Canadian IT Professionals said:

OK, now I am getting excited and I have to thank fellow IT Pro Advisor Arlindo Alves for finding this

# March 2, 2007 10:10 AM

m0e said:

Sorry but it sounds more like bells and whistles to my hears. If you take time to learn about virtualization technologies in general; 2 cores in VM is not so efficient performance wise, overhead on 8 cores should be really nice to measure. An overloaded network adapter in a VM, *cough* it seems he had really nothing else to show us.

I'll be impress when I see disk controller + partition for e.g.

# March 2, 2007 3:05 PM

Me said:

Adding a second virtual NIC to a VM still does not change the fact that there is only 1 physical NIC in the host physical server.  You are not increasing throughput at all...

If you really want to increase throughput, you would need to add a physical NIC to the Longdonghorn host server which - yes - means the same downtime.  And now, you have that same downtime for ALL VMs running on that host - not just the SQL server that needs it.  Wow...what a treat.

A better demo would have been showing the live migration of the VMs to another host so that the original server could be brought down to add the physical NIC with NO downtime for the VMs.  Something that VMware can do today...

# March 2, 2007 5:44 PM

aralves said:

Me

Today with Virtual Server we are able to cluster and then failover the guest with downtime.

Later with Windows Server Virtualization we will also have the live migration.

# March 3, 2007 2:15 AM

Keith Combs' Blahg said:

Everyone is familiar with the fictitious element of the planet Krypton. Strangely, this element is poisonous

# March 3, 2007 6:02 PM

Geeking Microsoft said:

From Arlindo's blog I found an awesome Longhorn Hypervisor Virtual Server demo given at Microsoft. This

# March 5, 2007 10:32 AM

raghav said:

When would it be available? And what is the performance... so for hot adding the nic ... some kind of API is required in the OS ... would this be available to the competitors? And most importantly how much of it is vaporware?

# March 6, 2007 1:40 AM

aralves said:

I don't know yet when it will be available what have been said so far was Loghorn RTM +180 days but that might change?

We will be able to do hot add nic, cpu and memory.

Don't know if it's based on an api.

# March 6, 2007 2:08 AM

Centrum technologii serwerowych said:

Microsoft zaprezentował niezwykle interesujące demo, podczas którego obejrzeć możemy najnowszą technologię

# March 9, 2007 10:38 AM

Jake said:

VMware is going down with longhorns release it appears!

# March 12, 2007 7:46 AM

Lance Murphy said:

When will there be a beta available on MSDN for the hypervisor environment?

# March 13, 2007 12:39 PM

aralves said:

Currently I don't have a date when Virtualization will be available on MSDN. Even we MSFT internals don't have access yet. But for sure when I have a date I will post it onto this blog. Stay tuned.

-A

# March 13, 2007 9:00 PM

Guy Ritchie said:

I think that it's "Awesome" how that after 32 years, Microsoft "still" can't come up with their "own" inovative ideas.

# March 19, 2007 11:50 PM

Segurança na Microsoft said:

Fiquei estes últimos dias com um post pronto revisitando segurança com virtualização e todas as possibilidades

# March 29, 2007 3:15 PM

portuno said:

What happens now that Viridian is pushed even further back and that with the most fundamental cross-platform capabilities ripped out of Viridian's tender little body?

Know what I think? I think the VCSY (Vertical Computer Systems) lawsuit for patent infringement against fundmental capabilities allegedly in .Net

has much more to do with Microsoft software development than anyone in Micrsoft wants to admit.

Read up on USPTO 6,826,744 and USPTO 7,076,521 and think through how YOU would do virtualization if you didn't have these.

This is the hidden danger of both those patents... doing one without the other is virtually useless.

# May 12, 2007 11:22 AM

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