This article was first published on SearchServerVirtualization.com.
I recently wrote an introductory article focusing on the architecture of Microsoft’s Hyper-V technology. From the article’s introduction:
Many IT people like to live on the cutting edge, even if it means we might need to purchase some bandages for the datacenter. Advanced is virtualization are commonplace, and it’s generally worthwhile to find out what’s coming out in the not-too-distant future. Microsoft’s upcoming virtualization product – now called Hyper-V – features a completely new virtualization architecture. Hyper-V (formerly known as “Viridian” and Windows Server Virtualization (WSv)), will be made available as a component of the Windows Server 2008 platform.
You can access the entire article on SearchServerVirtualization.com.
Note: Some of this content has been superceded with the release of Microsoft’s Hyper-V Beta (see more recent postings in the Hyper-V category for details).