Microsoft announce support for virtualisation with VMware

It looks like Microsoft have finally announced virtualisation support for their enterprise server software running on Windows Server on VMware’s hypervisor (VMware joins Microsoft’s Server Virtualization Validation Program). This is a validation of VMware’s technology and further enhances Microsoft’s integration story with other third party virtualisation solutions. In fact, Microsoft now support six virtualisation platforms including their own Hyper-V product.

This is great news for customers who have been holding back on running applications such as Microsoft Exchange on VMware due to support concerns. Those “not officially supported” barriers, that we’ve heard here in Ireland time and time again, have now been removed.  Now we just have to figure out the licensing.

Posted in: Technology Tags: Microsoft, virtualisation, VMware