Steven Bink from bink.nu had the chance to speak with Bob Muglia during the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 launch event in Los Angeles. With a quick 10 minute discussion, Steven was able to find out a few interesting tidbits.
- Hyper-V release date - Muglia stuck to the "after 180 days of the release of Windows Server 2008" story. Come on, people are getting antsy out here!
- You probably won't walk in the store and buy the $28 version of Hyper-V - it's going to be popular in the OEM channels.
- Sounds like the NEXT version of Hyper-V will have a hardware embedded option like VMware's ESX Server 3i.
- Looks like Microsoft is working on a shared memory feature like the one found in VMware. And they want to get it in the follow on release.
- Also in the follow on release, the features that were dropped from this coming release of Hyper-V - Hot add memory, disk and NICs and Live Migration.
- Hyper-V R2 will also add support for CPU virtualization optimizations - Oddly enough, I can't imagine why that isn't in the coming version?!?!
- SCVMMv2 to manage Hyper-V should have a Beta out this Spring with a final version ready at RTM time of Hyper-V.
- SCVMMv2 will also manage VMware ESX Server virtual machines because of customer demands.
What a great use of 10 minutes of time on Steve Bink's part. Excellent job!
But Steve didn't stop there. He also found out about:
- .NET Framework for Windows Server 2008 Core installations
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
- IIS7 and PHP
- ForeFront Client Security
- ISA 64bit
Check out the full posting on bink.nu to find out more details on everything here. Steve, thanks for a great interview with Bob Muglia.