Interview with Jeff Woolsey
Thursday, 12 June 2008 by Michel Roth
Scott Lowe had an interview with Jeff Woolsey, Senior Program Manager for Hyper-V at Microsoft. In the interview Jeff discussed the Hyper-V architecture, comparisons to other virtualization solutions, and some common competitive arguments for or against Hyper-V

These are the questions answered (somewhat) in this interview: 

  • What are the key architectural advantages of Hyper-V as compared to Xen or ESX?
  • How would you address competitors’ complaints about how Hyper-V requires a separate LUN for each VM for which Quick Migration functionality is needed?
  • How much interoperability is there between Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer?
  • What is your response to complaints about Microsoft’s support policy for third-party virtualization solutions?
  • How would you respond to the concerns about the quality of the device drivers in the parent partition affecting the stability of the hypervisor?

Read the interview here.

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