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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V   |   Microsoft Virtualisation technology platform

Microsoft Virtualisation will enable you to consolidate hardware resource, maintain higher levels of availability, and ensure you are taking maximum advantage of the Windows Server 2008 platform.

• Extend & leverage investment in Microsoft Windows Server technology by unleashing it's new Virtualisation capability
  
  
  • Macquarie Hosting can provide you with operational readiness for Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.
  • We have the skills and tools to Hyper-V enable you today
  • Our engineers are fully trained on Windows Server 2008 R2
    
• Increased Availability for all mission critical applications.
  
  
  • Hyper-V Live Migration in Windows Server 2008 R2 allows you to move a virtual machine between two virtualisation hosts with minimal interruption of service.
  • Cluster Shared Volumes - concurrently access the same storage disk location.
  • Cluster Node Connectivity Fault Tolerance implements a mechanism, known as dynamic I/O redirection, where I/O can be rerouted within the failover cluster based on connection availability.
    
• Increased Performance - greater virtual server density (VM density) per host.
  
  
  • Supports up to 64 logical processors in the host processor pool
  • Processor compatibility - move a virtual machine up and down multiple processor generations from the same vendor
    
• Ease of management – a complete managed service
  
  
  • Macquarie Hosting provides a complete platform managed service for Microsoft Virtualisation using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V – on your own dedicated physical server infrastructure.
  • Macquarie Hosting manages your Hyper-V environment using Microsoft Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), HP Server Insight Manager (HP SIM) and the Hyper-V Management console.
  • No other third party hypervisor software, licensing or support required beyond Windows Server 2008 R2
    
• Management tool visibility – real time reporting, historic reporting, threshold monitoring
  
  
  • Macquarie Hosting provides seamless visibility into the Microsoft virtualisation platform via the Macquarie online Management portal called InView

Full design, management, monitoring and ongoing support for your Microsoft Virtual Server solution:

• Physical host server hardware provision, monitoring and support
• Microsoft hypervisor licensing, provision (based on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V), monitoring, management and support
• Any number of guest Virtual Server Operating systems – including all licensing, provision, monitoring, patch management and support
• Enterprise SAN storage connectivity for all physical host servers. Simply tell us how much storage you require and we will provision your own dedicated storage LUN on our Enterprise SAN farm. Simply pay per GB for the storage allocated to you.
  • Options exist for 4 different price/performance tiers of storage
• Online Management tool visibility for all host and guest resources

Contact us for more information on Microsoft Hyper-V Hosting