vTeardown

Recently, Microsoft has been trying to bust the myth that Hyper-V is an immature, 1.0 product, stating that it’s “a very scalable, highly reliable product.” They go on to say that we should go ahead and give it a try ourselves. Well Eric Sloof over at ntpro.nl did just that and even followed the steps documented in a TechNet article. In addition, Microsoft’s own Hyper-V Program Manager, Mike Sterling, points users over to it in this forum post. You might be surprised to find how easy it can be to bring down your entire Hyper-V host. Eric has even captured the host crash in a video. Check it out here:

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1043-When-Im-feeling-blue.html

Would you run your mission critical, production applications on a platform this instable? I wonder what would happen if a normal user with VM creation rights provisioned a VM and accidently stored it on a CIFS share. Hmmmm…..Microsoft may need to rename their mascot IT 22-7.