Microsoft Hyper-V

Executive Summary

Microsoft’s Hyper-V, which is a Role in Windows Server, is an Enterprise Hypervisor. It is imperative to properly configure the virtual machine, the hypervisor, the storage, and all the components to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability.

This paper will cover the considerations for using FlashArray and its Purity Operating Environment with virtualized deployments with Hyper-V at a high level. The aspects covered include common use cases, features added to the server version of Windows, and quick overviews of Hyper-V and Pure FlashArray.

Microsoft Hyper-V

Hyper-V can:

• Establish or expand a private cloud environment: Provide more flexible, on-demand IT services by moving to or expanding your use of shared resources and adjust utilization as demand changes.

• Use your hardware more effectively: Consolidate servers and workloads onto fewer, more powerful physical computers to use less power and physical space.

• Improve business continuity: Minimize the impact of both scheduled and unscheduled downtime of your workloads.

• Establish or expand a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI): Using a centralized desktop strategy with VDI can help you increase business agility and data security, as well as simplify regulatory compliance and manage desktop operating systems and applications. Deploy Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RD Virtualization Host) on the same server to make personal virtual desktops or virtual desktop pools available to your users.

• Make development and test more efficient: Reproduce different computing environments without having to buy or maintain all the hardware you would need if you only used physical systems.

Windows Server has additional roles, features, and services that can extend Hyper-V by providing: