Microsoft today had a webcast to announce what many people in the industry already knew, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. This is not an updated version of Virtual Server 2005 but a hypervisor from Microsoft. My boss expects it take over VMWare in a couple of year but I'm not sold yet. I am surprised at how developed (at least on paper) it already seems to be. Microsoft says it has support for Windows product lines and Linux (Novell now, Redhat in January) in their presentation. You can deploy it with 2008 Server Core as well. Hyper-V costs $28 which seems insanely cheap for Microsoft, the presentation said you can spend $28 and consolidate your Windows 2003 machines on it. I will have to download 2008 RC1 with Hyper-V and check out the features more in depth.
Things that stood out in the presentation.
Hyper-V server costs $28!
Low overhead design from the beginning (for Microsoft).
Server Core.
MMC 3.0 UI.
1/3 cost of VMware (Says Microsoft)
I tend to believe that last point since people are already familiar with the Windows world but not VMware when they are virtualizing. Of course if you are virtualizing mostly none Windows machines I'm not sure if Hyper-V will work. It does seem fatter as the hypervisor / Server Core both need to be (I think) in order to provide all functionality and it needs more hardware (memory) than VMware.
Links: Here are some links for Hyper-V.
Download Hyper-V
Hyper-V Overview
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