Introducing Windows Server® 2008

Features of Windows Server Virtualization

Now that we understand something about how virtualization works (or will work) on Windows Server 2008, let’s look at what it can actually do. Here’s a quick summary:

• Creates and manage child partitions for both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) operating systems.

• Creates VMs that can use SMP to access 2, 4, or even 8 cores.

• Creates VMs that use up to 1 TB of physical memory. Windows Server virtualization can do this because it’s built on 64-bit from the ground up. That means 64-bit HV, 64-bit virtualization stack, and so on.

• Supports direct pass-through disk access for VMs to provide enhanced read/write performance. Storage is often a bottleneck for physical machines, and with virtual disks it can be even more ...