| Virtualization As A Platform Feature - Part II |
| Saturday, 11 February 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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While Microsoft is making large investments in virtualization technology, we recognize that it is only part of the solution. Getting your IT investments to do more, whether it’s a router or a server or even a virtual OS, is top of mind for everyone these days. Microsoft has also been working on helping customers do more with a single installation of the OS, as well. We started with some of the less complicated workloads to consolidate, such as file and print and web workloads. Starting with Windows Server 2003, especially, we provide the server consolidation technology and guidance which enables customers to reduce the number of moving parts they support, to lower costs and increase agility. For new application development, Microsoft’s .NET provides application isolation for security and reliability within the same OS instance. As announced last October, Microsoft has begun rolling out updates to it’s licensing terms to allow customers to further benefit from server virtualization technology, while reducing risk. These changes affect all new server products and fall into 4 main categories: "Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition includes the use right for customers to run up to 4 additional virtual instances of Windows Server with one server license. This means that for roughly the same cost as 5 licenses of Standard Edition, customers gain the advantages of an enterprise-class platform. This includes increased headroom up to 8 processors (single or dual-core chips) and up to 64 GB of memory for the 32-bit version and 1 TB for the x64 edition, as well as the server clustering in Enterprise Edition...." Read on here.
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