back to article Microsoft adds nested virtualization to Azure

Microsoft’s added a new instance type to Azure and the ability to run nested virtualization. The new Dv3 VM instances run on either the Broadwell E5-2673 v4 2.3GHz processor or a Haswell 2.4 GHz E5-2673 v3 and between eight and 64GB of RAM. Whatever the CPU you use, Windows Server 2016 is also under the hood along with Hyper-V …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Pretty funny to see Microsoft repeating the past.

    CP-67 had this capability in the early 1960's -- and is still doing it in the current z/VM with 16 exabyte virtual machines.

    Everything old is new again.

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