Windows Server 2008 Virtualization PM Bryon Surace in the Fish Bowl

Posted By: David Tesar | Nov 15th, 2007 @ 10:00 AM

After checking out Bryon's cool virtualization suite of demos with Hyper-V for the keynote speech at IT Forum, I decided to setup an interview with him at the Fish Bowl during the event. I thought it'd be relevant to post this up with the other virtualization video consdering he is on the same team as Mike Sterling and Arno Mihm. We only had about 10 minutes, so we asked him about what he likes the best with the product, challeges we currently have with virtualization, and a little bit of where we're headed.

Tags: Hyper-V, Virtualization, Windows Server 2008

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Ivan1980

Hi there, nice interview. It was mentioned in the interview, but really one of the things WSV is missing is the USB function. We have all those usb tokens with license information and only for that reason we would choose the VMWare Server product which supports that.

tailwindALWAYS

I second that USB pass-through. We have a virtual license server running with two USB dongles on it. The reason we think it's ideal to run a license server virtually is due to the MAC address that's usually required to register your machine with various software vendors to provide you with a key. This way, if the hardware the server is running on fails, you don't have to put the same NIC in another box (that is if the one you registered wasn't the on-board NIC!). That being said it's obviously also important to be able to set static MAC addresses in a VM. Unfortunately VMware only allows a certain range. Other than that I think it looks like a very sweet step forward, but I know for sure we won't switch unless we can move all of our servers ... including our license server and few linux servers for sure.