660 VMs in a Hyper-V environment

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I do quite a bit of work with HP here in Ireland.  I was chatting to one of their consultants the other day and he was telling me about HP's Windows Server 2008 Academy (inserting the Windows Server 2008 chip into the back of their heads).  The Academy involved running 660 VMs in total, there's a webcast about setting it all up here:

TechNet Webcast: Using Virtual Machine Manager and Windows PowerShell to Deploy HP Windows Server 2008 Academy Labs (Level 300)

I just wanted to share this with you all:

"Last week the HP Windows 2008 Academy team delivered the APJ event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They were able to fully & automatically deploy and run 660 VMs in a Hyper-V environment. The entire hosting environment has been moved from Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 to Hyper-V. To quote the team:

“This was an important milestone both for the Academy team, but also for Microsoft: it was one of the largest Hyper-V deployment worldwide used in a production-like environment.”

I’m sure you’ve got similar facts and figures within Microsoft, but I thought this kind of feedback and information was useful coming from an organisation other than Microsoft i.e. an independent ratification of the Hyper-V technology.

Regards "

660 VMs in a Hyper-V environment - pretty cool?

Dave