Hyper-V Benefits

The Hyper-V is software with hypervisor technology on which several virtual machines can run. The hardware of these machines is controlled by the hypervisor and it also allocates resources on every VM operating system. The Hyper-V technology lets the user operate multiple operating systems from one single machine.

Server virtualization is gaining a lot of importance—especially with the launch of Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V as the virtual platform—as businesses understand that it offers a better security, increased efficiency, and cost-saving solutions. Using Hyper-V, users can get a hands-on experience on the new hardware technology and at the same time use the servers they already have. And, as Hyper-V continues to gain all the importance in the technology world, it has become important for the IT professionals to understand how exactly this technology works and what features and benefits it offers.

Features

Dynamic Memory

This feature helps the users to understand the memory resources of the virtual machine effectively, and at the same time, it also increases the consolidation ratios of the virtual machines. The Hyper-V will use techniques such as Internal Guest Paging and Ballooning, and it offers new functionality for assisting in the startup of virtual machine and setting up minimum RAM requirements with the use of Hyper-V smart paging. A new feature in Windows Server 2012 helps the users to increase the memory configurations with Dynamic Memory when the virtual machine is running.

Live Migration

Sharing becomes simpler in the presence of Hyper-V. In Hyper-V the feature 'shared nothing' lets the users migrate a virtual machine from a server that is running on Hyper-V to a different server without having both the machines in the same storage space or cluster. This ability of the feature means that you can live migrate any virtual machine from different clusters without using complex storage mappings.

Hyper-V Replica

To have interrupted business service and a quick disaster recovery, Windows Server 2012 has introduced Hyper-V Replica that provides replication for the virtual machines. In events such as fire, natural disasters, or power failure, you can lose important data. The virtual machines running on Hyper-V will bring back the machines to a consistent point, and the network can access your machine within no time causing minimum or no damage.

Extensible Switch

This Hyper-V extensible switch is a virtual network switch that helps form a connection between the virtual machines and physical networks. This extensible switch is an open platform and multiple vendors can give extensions, which are written for the standard Windows API framework. The reliability of this framework is strengthened by Windows standard framework.

Benefits

1. Business flexibility: The virtual world is becoming more prevalent, you need to learn how to manage your workload, and you should know quick ways to migrate between your workloads. The Hyper-V allows the users to live migrate from one virtual machine to another, or to migrate from an external clustered environment.
2. Multitenant environments: As businesses have started adopting the virtual datacenters, many service providers have started offering Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). This model provides the users with virtual flexible environments, but they lack security. The Hyper-V offers better security and capabilities for multitenant isolation, which helps keep all the virtual machines isolated, even if they are stored in the same server or network.
3. Larger workloads: To help the users in the virtual environment with larger workloads, Hyper-V provides support of 1 terabyte of memory and 64 virtual processors for the Hyper-V guests. Also, it provides 4,000 virtual machines on a cluster of 64-node.
4. Availability: It is important to have connectivity to your machine for seven days a week and throughout the year. For this, Hyper-V provides the users with excellent back-up support, inbox NIC teaming, and enhanced clustered environments for supporting the virtual fiber channel adapters.

Whether it's about increasing the private IP addresses, hosting multiple websites, custom database applications, VM availability, VM mobility, gaining more flexibility, handling environments with multi-tenants, or gaining bigger scale, Hyper-V provides the users with tools and platforms for increasing your business flexibility. The new Hyper-V gives extended management support, where you can control the overhead administrative costs of your environment and automate different management tasks. And you also get the portability that you require for extending your datacenter or virtualizing on premises to a host provider, it helps you change environment from a simple data center to cloud computing.