Report on Hyper-V Technology

Question: Write about theReport on Hyper-V Technology. Answer: Purpose of the Technology The hyper-V technology is mainly a virtualization platform developed by Microsoft. This is mainly used for running several virtual machines while the hypervisor layer takes control of the hardware, resources and virtual machine operating system (Garca Entrialgo, 2015). This application makes the virtualization of the servers cost effective and secured without using special drivers to run this specific application. Description of the Technology This technology is known as windows server virtualization. This is used to create virtual machines on the x86 and x64systems. Using this technology, it is possible to run numerous operating systems on a single physical server (Berger, 2014). In case of the software based virtualization process the Hyper-v technology is used to insert an additional layer between the actual server and the resources to be allocated in the virtual machines. The virtual machines can be easily isolated from each other. This application uses the Para-virtualization methods that need the modification of the operating system so that it can run as a virtual machine. The isolated virtual machine does not have the access to the physical resources instead it has virtual view of the available resources. Each instance of the hypervisor contains at least one parent partition and several child partitions (Fernandes et al., 2014). Application of the Technology Creation a test machine of app sand box: Using the hyper-V technology it is possible to create app sand box or install applications on the main OS to test and evaluate the performance of the application on different platforms. Booting OS using the Hyper-V: By using the Hyper V technology it is possible to boot from the VHD (Virtual hard disk) (Garca Entrialgo, 2015). User can attach the virtual hard disk through the disk management console menu of the Hyper-V. Used to virtualize older versions of windows (like windows XP) : As the windows XP is an operating system that requires lesser amount resources to run, therefore using this Hyper-V, it is possible to virtualize this kind of OS. Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology Advantages: One of the most important advantages of the Hyper-V technology is this comes along with the windows server 2008 package. Therefore, compared to other virtualization tools like Xenserver of Citrix and VMware, Hyper-V helps the user to save the investment required for buying the license of the Hyper-V (Fayyad-Kazan, Perneel Timmerman, 2013). In addition to that, the use of the Hyper-V can help the users to get better services from the Microsoft, if the server applications run on the Hyper-V platform rather than any other third party virtualization tools. Disadvantages: The VMsprawl is the most discussed disadvantages of any virtualization platform. As the virtualized environments of the servers becomes more complex and large, therefore it requires more efficient management software to track the performance and keep them patched up with latest security patches which adds extra overhead for the IT administrators (Fernandes et al., 2014). Additionally, it is often seen that virtual environments suffer from the creation of the numerous number virtual machines that consumes a lot of resources unnecessarily. Description of the Alternative Technology The alternative technology that can be used by users instead of Hyper-V is VM ware developed by Dell. It is a independent virtualization and hypervisor creator. This application is still compatible with the old x86 architectures (Garca Entrialgo, 2015). The VMware helps in virtualizing the available hardware resources for a hard disk adapters and video adapter. For, this the virtual machines created using the VMware becomes highly portable between different computers, as every host in the virtual machine looks identical. Comparison to the Alternative Technology The VMware is much more scalable compared to the Hyper-V, because it provides 480 CPUs, 12 TB RAM, 4 TB Virtual RAM, and 128 virtual CPUs. In case Hyper, it is 320 CPUs, 64 virtual CPUs, 1TB virtual RAM and 4TB RAM. For patching, it VMware provides automated patching techniques with rollback capability (Fayyad-Kazan, Perneel Timmerman, 2013). For Hyper-V it requires too many unrelated updates for the functionalities. The VMware provides full support for the 84 operating systems; on the contrary the Hyper-V provides support for only 15 operating systems. In case of crashing, VMware is fault tolerant and provides support up to 4virtual CPUs for each virtual machine (Garca Entrialgo, 2015). On the other hand, there are no such services available from Hyper-V. 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