Chapter 3. Microsoft Virtualization Technologies
Microsoft has a comprehensive portfolio of virtualization technologies that can be used either independently or together to enable the widest variety of desktop and server virtualization scenarios.
The following table describes the virtualization capabilities available from Microsoft and how they map to the virtualization types.
Table 1. Microsoft Virtualization Technologies
|
Microsoft Capability |
Virtualization Type |
|
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V™ |
Server Hardware Virtualization |
|
Virtual Server 2005 R2 |
Server Software Virtualization |
|
Terminal Services |
Presentation Virtualization |
|
SoftGrid Application Virtualization |
Application Virtualization |
|
Virtual PC |
Desktop Virtualization |
|
Windows Vista ... |
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