Microsoft needs Hyper V to have the ability to easily move virtual machines (a so-called VMotion capability) and so it is interesting that a third-party has immediately stepped up to do that. Sanbolic, a clustered file system vendor, says it will support Hyper V.
But because Sanbolic won't actually be embedded in Hyper-V, we'll see if Microsoft partners with Sanbolic, somehow acquires this technology or eventually makes it obsolete by creating its own VMotion-like technology. If Microsoft behaves true-to-form, option three is the most likely. Still, if the Sanbolic technology works and is affordable, there's little risk in using it for the Microsoft-centric enterprise that will be an early adopter of Hyper V.
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still far to go
Although it's cute that a 3rd party has already jumped to this solution before Micsoroft did, any IT professional with virtualization experience will tell you that $5000/server is not cheap (for JUST a clustered filesystem), and 5-10 seconds downtime is unacceptable.
Although it probably will not take long, Microsoft is still far away from putting together a virtualization solution ready for the datacenter.
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