No Hype Just Hyper-V - Microsoft.com Powered By Hyper-V - No Sizzle Just Steak
Microsoft ops guys have a blog at this address and they are announcing that now Microsoft.com web site is powered by Hyper-V.
They say on their blog.. One of our more challenging systems from a server subsystem utilization perspective is www.microsoft.com. The site handles 15,000 requests per second, 1.2 billion page views per month, and 280M worldwide unique users per month as well as supporting ~5000 content contributors from within the company. This site has close to 300GB of content consisting of some seven million individual files on each server. Due to this scale and the variety of applications hosted, the site heavily exercises all of the major subsystems - memory, CPU, network, and file I/O – on each server. Based on the load characteristics and the fact that this site is a testing ground for early adoption of Microsoft technology, we expected the production load of www.microsoft.com to provide a great test for Hyper-V.
To me this is great marketing unlike Microsoft lame attempt into head faking the market with what’s that service … Live Mess or Live Mesh. Live Mesh was being touted as the next best thing but the word was it was vapor. And like that vapor it was - story gone.
I blogged about Hyper-V yesterday and so did Alex. Now they come out and showcase their best site that has the most pressure on it. That’s what I call bring out the ’steak’.
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