For my first non-Vmware post in a while, this is kind of interesting!
As part of a select group of our key customers, you are invited to participate in the Beta Program for the Microsoft® Hyper-VT Security Guide. This guide is designed to provide guidance, instructions, and recommendations to help you elevate the security of virtualized Windows Server® environments to meet your business-critical needs.
The Hyper-V Security Guide provides the following information to address your security concerns around server virtualization:
Hardening Hyper-V: Prescriptive guidance for hardening the Hyper-V server role, including several best practices for installing and configuring Hyper-V with a focus on security. These best practices include measures for reducing the attack surface of Hyper-V as well as recommendations for properly configuring secure virtual networks and storage devices on a Hyper-V host server.
Delegating virtual machine management: Prescriptive guidance to help you safely and securely delegate administrative access to virtual machine resources within an organization.
Protecting virtual machines: Prescriptive guidance for securing virtual machine resources, including best practices and detailed steps for protecting virtual machines by using a combination of file system permissions, encryption, and auditing.
By participating in this Beta Program, you can provide timely feedback about the guidance to our team to help us ensure that it meets your needs when released!What’s the timeline for the Beta review?
The Beta review period runs through March 4th, 2009. We need to receive your input during this period for your feedback to be included in the final release of the project.Where do I download the Beta?
To download the Beta and submit feedback, please join the Program Connect Web site. After joining the Beta review program, bookmark this link to the program site to get the latest information about the projectHow and where do I provide feedback?
To provide us your feedback please read the feedback instructions.We look forward to hearing from you! Thanks for taking the time to review the Beta material. Please let us know if you have any questions.
I am really interested to see how Hyper-V stacks up against its’ quite formidable competition. The question that always springs to ming whenever I look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V is, “If I am an entirely Microsoft house, why not use a virtualisation product optimised for my environment?”
Interesting times …