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HBA Virtualization Technologies for Windows Operating Systems Environments

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Overview Microsoft offers Virtual Server 2005 R2, a software virtualization platform that runs most major x86 operating systems in a guest environment. Storage administrators deploy Virtual Server 2005 R2 to consolidate underutilized servers, support legacy OSes, automate software test and development environments, and simplify disaster and recovery planning. In the future, Microsoft will offer Windows Server Virtualization (previously code named Viridian) as part of the Windows Server Longhorn release. This new hypervisor based technology will provide a more scalable, secure, and highly available virtualization solution. Microsoft's virtualization solutions combined with QLogic's HBA virtualization technologies further increase hardware utilization and enable organizations to rapidly configure and deploy virtual machines.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	May 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Virtualization

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