Fault tolerance on Windows 2008

Fault tolerance had been recently added as an optional features on windows 2008 which provide a similar features to the Tandem Non Stop concept to minimize the system down time from minutes to seconds. As we notice, this technology will be down the road by VMWare on the next release ESX 4. I not sure whether Microsoft will consider to offer this in the virtual environment rather than the physical, as more users is more interesting in Virtual Vs Physical Servers today. Let's see what will be the next from Microsoft, innovative portion, I m glad to see this from Microsoft.

VMware ESX 4 New features

According to VMware, the future of the VMware Enterprise Edition Virtualization which name as ESX 4 will be launched earlier next year, will contain some of the features which been show case during the seminar to the public. Below is some of the information which had been shared by VMware for reference

1. 64 bits kernel VS the current 32 bits kernel on ESX server
2. Thin Provisioning
3. Fault Tolerance
4. 8 way virtual SMP
5. 256 GB memory per single VM

There are also more to come in the roadmap of year 2009 which will specify on the vcloud, virtual data center and etc. At lease for today, this had been public demostrate to the end user about some of the technology roadmap and features in the next version. ESX 4 is still under private beta test at this moment, which aim to be launched at 1st quater next year.

ESX 4 Beta screen shot

Interesting to have a preview about the ESX 4? I found a link that posted with couple of screen shots for preview purpose which is currently still on beta test.

ESX 4


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