Microsoft announces tools to help customers realize benefits of virtualization

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Posted: Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 at 1210 hrs IST
Updated: Thursday, Sep 04, 2008 at 1210 hrs IST

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New Delhi, September 4: : research by Alinean to project potential costs and benefits for various optimization strategies using the Microsoft Integrated Virtualization solutions. All research was collected from the Alinean ValueBase of IT spending metrics, and Microsoft product and pricing experts to reflect typical costs and savings for similar company type and size.

The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool is built on Windows Workflow Foundation and the Windows PowerShell interface to manage the workflow of updating large numbers of offline virtual machines according to their individual needs. To do this, the tool works with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 and with software update management systems (at present, either Microsoft Windows Server® Update Services 3.0 or Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. The tool uses “servicing jobs” to manage the update operations based on lists of existing virtual machines stored in VMM. Using Windows Workflow Foundation technology, a servicing job runs snippets of PowerShell scripts to work with virtual machines.

“At Microsoft, virtualization is a means to enabling the company’s long-standing vision of Dynamic IT - where people and computers get the resources they need the moment they need them. Microsoft is therefore applying company-wide resources (in everything from product development and licensing strategies to interoperability initiatives and strategic partnerships) to make virtualization a reality for all of its customers”, added Ms. Kathuria.

With a holistic approach towards virtualization, Microsoft offers a comprehensive set of virtualization products, from the data center to desktop assets – both virtual and physical – that are managed from a single platform. Microsoft has a number of virtualization technology infrastructures that provide a range of options for organizations to choose from and a number of architectural layers that they can consider when applying virtualization, including machine, application, presentation and the management of the various layers. Microsoft recently announced the global launch of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, its hypervisor-based virtualization offering that will play a key role in delivering next generation virtualization solutions to customers. Later this year, Microsoft will also be announcing the availability of the next version of its virtualization management platform - Virtual Machine Manager....

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