{"id":233,"date":"2007-11-13T09:02:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T14:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=233"},"modified":"2007-11-13T09:02:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T14:02:34","slug":"hyper-v-for-windows-server-2008-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2007\/11\/hyper-v-for-windows-server-2008-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the official, final name of the server technology previously known as Viridian and Windows Server Virtualization (WSv) has been announced.&#xA0; See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2007\/nov07\/11-12HyperVPR.mspx\">Microsoft Outlines Pricing, Packaging and Licensing for Windows Server 2008&#8230;<\/a> for details.&#xA0; As few techies like to read Press Releases, I&#8217;ll give you the short version.&#xA0; The name of the technology\/feature that will be available in 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008 is Hyper-V.&#xA0; In addition, Microsoft is providing a Hyper-V Server version of the product for use by OEMs.&#xA0; The technical requirements seem to remain the same.&#xA0; I&#8217;ll soon be writing some articles about the architecture of Hyper-V and will post the details here.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I like the new name somewhat more than the WSv title.&#xA0; Hyper-V has fewer syllables, which is always a plus.&#xA0; It&#8217;s a departure from Microsoft&#8217;s usually long-winded product names that can rarely be completed in a single breath.&#xA0; <\/p>\n<p>On that note: In keeping with descriptive product names, SoftGrid has also been renamed.&#xA0; It is now called Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5.&#xA0; A list of new features is listed in Brian Madden&#8217;s blog entry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianmadden.com\/content\/article\/Microsoft-announces-Application-Virtualization-45\">Microsoft announces Application Virtualization 4.5<\/a>.&#xA0; While I have mixed feelings on long, descriptive product names, I really do think this will help clear up some confusion over virtualization approaches.&#xA0; I&#8217;ll post more information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the official, final name of the server technology previously known as Viridian and Windows Server Virtualization (WSv) has been announced.&#xA0; See Microsoft Outlines Pricing, Packaging and Licensing for Windows Server 2008&#8230; for details.&#xA0; As few techies like to read Press Releases, I&#8217;ll give you the short version.&#xA0; The name of the technology\/feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-microsoft-hyper-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}