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As I watch the Microsoft marketing engine shift into high gear, and as I read various articles and posts scattered throughout the blogsphere about the recent release of Hyper-V, I can't help but feel like I'm watching the techie version of a drug commercial. I mean seriously, for three years the Microsoft zombies have been holding hands, surrounding the virtualization crop circles, eyes glazed over and swaying side-to-side in perfect harmony, constantly repeating their unmistakable mating call "hyyyperrrrrveeeeeeeeeee." And now the mother ship has landed. The result? Phrases like "Microsoft will eat VMware for lunch" and "VMware will be dead in five years" and "VMware will be the next Netscape" are a dime a dozen. Really? Awesome! I need to get me some Hyper-V! Wait. Darn it, I fell for it again! How did they do that?!
Let me clearly state that I'm actually not a Microsoft hater. I write this article using Microsoft Word which is installed on my Windows XP operating system, both of which I love. And my Microsoft mouse ROCKS! It's got all sorts of cool buttons and it lights up and it's shiny!!! Weeeeeee!
Don't mistake my twisted humor as a full-on attack of Microsoft or of Hyper-V, because it's really not. To be perfectly honest, in my limited exposure to Hyper-V, I would say it's a half decent start for a version 1.0 hypervisor. My intent really is to just cut through the hype and the marketing spin surrounding it.
Let's not lose sight of the real reasons we are virtualizing the in first place. Sure, creating a virtual machine is fun and easy and the lure of putting 30 VMs on a single physical machine is certainly powerful. But creating a VM became possible almost 10 years ago and server consolidation of this magnitude has been happening for at least 3 or 4 years now.
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