On the heels of a significant update from its arch-rival in virtualization, VMware Inc., Microsoft has released the first public trial of its own hypervisor technology, called Hyper-V. But whether or not IT managers in Windows shops will be anxious to get their fingers on the technology is another matter entirely.
Last week, VMware released ESX version 3.5 with some significant updates, like Storage VMotion, which lets administrators move a virtual machine to another server in this environment while the VM is still running.
Microsoft followed up by releasing Hyper-V -- a little earlier than originally promised. The original due date was first quarter of 2008.
"It's interesting that just a few days after VMware released ESX 3.5, Microsoft decides to put its hypervisor out there earlier," said David Payne, virtualization expert and CTO at integrator Xcedex LLC in Minneapolis. "It seems a little like the vendors are trying to take some thunder away from each other," he said.
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