Microsoft’s Virtualization Strategy

Importance to Academic Institutions

Most common observed project goals

Get more out of server hardwareImprove service reliabilityReduce operating expenses

Control workstation costsIntroduce better access to applications/data

Without sacrificing security

Virtualization PLATFORM that makes sense for Academic institutions.

Integrated approach across all solutions rather than a single set of product offerings.

Hyper-V is a component of WindowsVirtualization is first-class across Server Management SuiteOne size does not fit allPrivate/public cloud is reality today

Features for today’s requirements. Extensibility for tomorrow’s challenges.Flexibility in choosing hardwareAcademic PricingSimplified licensing models for virtualization

“Site” licenses also available

PresentationVirtualization

User StateVirtualization

ApplicationVirtualization

DesktopVirtualization

Microsoft Virtualization Products From the Datacenter to the Desktop

ServerVirtualization

“Having one vendor for the hypervisor,

operating system, and much of our application

software was very appealing to us from a

support and cost perspective.”

Bert Van Pottelberghe, Sales Director,

Hostbasket

Document redirectionOffline files

Gartner comments

A Microsoft First: Submission of GPLv2 Open-Source Code to the Linux Kernel Maintainers – July 21, 2009

“For IT shops seeking to reduce server sprawl, opportunities to consolidate both Windows and Linux applications on single hosts, while minimizing performance degradation, become more feasible. The enlightenment driver code and the emerging announcement of Hyper-V Live Migration in October 2009 will sway more users in hybrid environments to consider Windows as a virtualization strategy vis a vis VMware or Linux, helping Microsoft to advance its virtualization agenda.”

Case Studies

http://bit.ly/edtech-virt

What do I need?Microsoft provides a comprehensive, end-to-end toolset for creating, provisioning,

managing, and securing both the virtual infrastructure and the physical infrastructure,

including the management of third-party virtualization solutions.

VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORMDataCenter

Hypervisor / High AvailabilityUnlimited Windows Server VM Instances

SMSDMonitoring, Operations, ReportingDeployment, Inventory, Updates, ConfigurationProvisioning, Automation, Self-ServiceCentralized Backup/Recovery

More information

http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization

http://technet.microsoft.com/virtualization

http://www.virtualizationfeed.com/

Product Site

Documentation / Resources / Labs

Community

Partners

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