Windows Server 2008 R2
Benefits for Web Hosting Resellers
Automated, simplified backups and critical data restoration
Virtualisation is not only a more efficient way of serving data, but with Hyper-V 2.0 management you also get rapid back-up and restore capabilities.
Business Continuity
The leverage of virtualisation for business continuity provides the capabilities of a rapid backup-and-restore process, which is ideal for disaster recovery. Adding Microsoft Data Protection Manager (additional £10pm option) makes unique, high-availability capabilities available to businesses in the areas of both host and guest clustering. These capabilities are important for addressing key recovery scenarios, from planned and unplanned downtime to failover load balancing.
Testing and Development
Traditionally, testing and development have had large hardware requirements, which can be minimized through the use of virtual machines. For testing and development, the use of virtual machines is ideal. They create distributed application environments and provide rapid-provisioning capabilities, while the disk-state features allow point-in-time information to be captured.
