Microsoft Solutions

Bringing You the Full Power of the Cloud

Microsoft provides the most comprehensive approach to cloud computing, so that you can harness the full power of the cloud on your terms. Whether in your datacenter, with a service provider, or from Microsoft’s datacenters—and whether in a private cloud, public cloud, or software as a service environment—Microsoft provides the flexibility and control to consume IT as a service, whichever way best meets your unique business needs.

Your private cloud will deliver many of the benefits of public cloud computing—including self-service, scalability, and elasticity—with the additional control and customization available from dedicated resources.

Hyper-V, the Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, is a core component of the Microsoft private cloud. Hyper-V helps you to make the best use of your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine. It also helps you efficiently run multiple, different operating systems—Windows, Linux, and others—in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing.

The Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal, built on top of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and System Center, is a free, extensible, turnkey solution that empowers datacenters to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage resources to enable on premises private cloud computing. Using this solution, you can create agile, virtualized infrastructures and facilitate business agility, operational efficiencies, and reduced management complexity.

System Center solutions help you accelerate your journey to cloud computing by enabling you to deliver cost-effective and agile datacenter services to manage your physical, virtual, and cloud environments in an integrated manner.

The Hyper-V Cloud Deployment Guides are a collection of best practices based on a Microsoft Consulting Services framework. They are designed to help you deploy a private cloud solution using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, and the Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0.