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Dilip Naik a is joining the HyperVoria team! Dilip is a current Microsoft MVP awardee and also a former Microsoft employee. Dilip has an extensive experience in network file systems and ffilter drivers and is also a co-author of the only RFCs ever published by Microsoft in the are of Common Internet File Systems (CIFS). Dilip is also the author of Inside Windows published by Addison Wesley. Expect (news) articles from Dilip soon!
Here is a whitepaper he wrote on Hyper-V Storage:
Hyper-V is the next generation virtualization solution from Microsoft and clearly the product that is meant to replace Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. The term "Hyper-V" is the official product name for what was once code named "Viridian". Hyper-V is a term used to refer to both, a product, as well as a collection of technologies. An extremely brief overview of the product features is presented in this section whereas the rest of this document is dedicated to describing the technologies in general and the storage technologies in particular. Hyper-V virtualization supports
- 32 bit and 64 bit code executing within the partition aka virtualized environment
- Each guest partition can have up to 64GB RAM in the virtualized environment
- Up to 4 CPU cores per guest partition
- Integrated clustering support for high availability and quick migration of virtual machines from one Hyper-V host to another
- Volume Shadow Copy integration and snapshot disks for data protection
- A new Virtual Device architecture that minimizes code path for data I/O. This is described in detail in this paper and also in a companion "Deep Dive into Hyper-V Networking" white paper
- A standards based interface (WMI) for managing the various Virtual Machines
- Support for advanced networking features such as VLANs and Network Load Balancing also described in the companion "Deep Dive into Hyper-V Networking" white paper.
- Isolation of VMs from each other
The rest of this document focuses upon a technical description of the various components that constitute Hyper-V.
Download http://msftmvp.com/Documents/HyperVStor.pdf
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