Microsoft® Hyper-V™

PerfectMail™ is fully supported on the following Microsoft Hyper-V releases:

• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

PerfectMail Virtual Machines are ideal for organizations who have committed to virtualization and want to leverage that investment by choosing Hyper-V™ ready security solutions.

You get effective, consistent antispam and antivirus protection. You also get the the tools you need to manage, monitor and review e-mail use. This makes PerfectMail ideal for businesses, non-profits and other organizations who want enterprise class antispam protection with the lowest total cost of ownership.

PerfectMail is a fully supported Hyper-V guest Operating System. (PerfectMail is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.) You simply create a new Hyper-V VM sized for your PerfectMail Edition and install Microsoft's Linux Integration Services on the new VM.

The Linux Integration Services provide:

• Driver support for network and storage controllers
• Timesync to keep the VM clock synchronized with the host clock
• Integrated Shutdown to facilitate VM shutdown by either the Hyper-V Manager or Virtual Machine Manager.
• Symmetric Multi-Processing Support to a maximum of 4 CPUs
• Also install the adjtimex RPM for more accurate time keeping in the virtual machine.