In this interview we met up with Devin Murray (Group Manager) and David Lef (Technology Architect) who are in charge of implementing virtualization within Microsoft. They've been running Hyper-V since it was in Beta in 2007 and have been running Hyper-V in production since January 2008. Watch Part 1 first.
In Part 2 of this interview, we cover the following topics:
Challenges they've faced in deploying and recommendations
[2:23] - What their thinking is around a future datacenter to address those challenges
[4:43] - Technical details on the future datacenter
[9:29] - What workloads would this infrastructure support
[13:15] - Branch office efforts around virtualization
[16:05] - How long we've been running Hyper-V, will we be able to have 100% of our servers virtualized in the future, and what is the net impact of running virtual server 2005 R2 vs Hyper-V.
Read more information about MSIT's virtualization strategy.