Hyper-V Terminology: Microsoft's Virtualization Lexicon

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:45:00 EDT

Well, I just realized that I had dived into talking about how to do things with Hyper-V without first taking the time to orient you on some of the terminology used. So I would now take the time to correct that. Note that many of these terms are not used in the user interface / documentation for Hyper-V. The reason for this is that from an operational 'getting things done' point of view you do not need to know about most of this. However, once you start discussing architecture it becomes necessary to know about this stuff.

Virtualization - How Come Hyper-V Doesn't Feel Like a Hypervisor Based Solution?

Thu, 22 May 2008 18:00:00 EDT

How is Hyper-V different from the Virtual Server type experience? How come it doesn't feel like a hypervisor based virtualization solution? When I have talked to people about Hyper-V - I have often come across this sentiment. Let me step you through this. If you look at this screenshot you will see that I am running a virtual machine on Hyper-V - and must, therefore, have hardware virtualization support in my system.

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Hyper-V Terminology: Microsoft's Virtualization Lexicon

Virtualization - How Come Hyper-V Doesn't Feel Like a Hypervisor Based Solution?