We all know (or at least it’s publicly written) Hyper-V will RTM in about ~40 days.  There have even been some announcements with Microsoft already rolling out some of their public facing production roles on Hyper-V. 

…and even before it was cool Devin Murray was the man driving Microsoft’s internal virtualization adoption (I also got to meet the man in person last year; cool huh?).

Anyway, with the RTM of Hyper-V right around the corner; David Lef (Microsoft IT Technology Architect) dropped me a lovely little comment on my blog about what the lads at Microsoft IT are busy working on.  A snippet is below:

David Lef [MSFT]
I am the platform architect working for Devin Murray, subject of the TechNet article and webcast.

Microsoft IT has indeed been deploying production workloads on Hyper-V for several months now. We are currently about approaching 25% virtualized overall, up from the 7% figure discussed previously. (A big effort is underway to push as many new server requests into VMs as possible.) Part of this effort it redirecting many new server requests into Hyper-V VMs, where a few short months ago we would have been required to deploy them to dedicated physical machines. (Multi-processor, 64-bit, or other basic requirements that could not be satisfied by Virtual Server 2005 VMs.)

We have about 350 production Hyper-V VMs running as of mid-June 2008. We anticipate we will increase that number by about 100 in the next month, then bringing Hyper-V VMs in as a commodity standard available for our internal server customers.

We already have upwards of 300 machines in a queue, ready to be ordered and deployed when we can get the capacity ready. Natural adoption will take over shortly after the Hyper-V final release. With the knowledge we have about our environment and experience we have with Hyper-V so far, I am very confident we will meet or exceed our target to provision 80% of new instances into VMs.

From Microsoft IT’s [using] Hyper-V in production, 2008/06/18 at 12:46 AM

Now, not all of those VMs are on Hyper-V, but some are, if only a few percent - the interesting gem,  80% of all new servers will be virtualized (phwaaar!  that’s what I like to see).

If you want to hear more of what David has to say, check out his webcast next Tuesday, How Microsoft does IT Management and Operations. It’s a level 300 session, so expect some technical juicy goodness.  That works out to be 3am Australian time, so if I can drag myself out of bed, you’ll see me there =)