Daryo Jul 8, 2014:

@Nicholas Quaine it's refreshing to see that checking the internal consistency of a ST is not totally gone out of fashion; (THAT bit is not any business of Google & Cie)
having said that, this might be an error in transcribing a dictation, or a voice recognition error that went uncorrected, or just a clumsy use of the term. Or even a right use of "supervisor", but with so many indications to the contrary, I would check with the client.

BTW, there is another clue well hidden in plain sight - the name of this software:
"Hyper-V" = hypervisor (for) Virtualisation?

Nicholas Quaine Jul 8, 2014:

I agree with Daryo Microsoft has no lexical entry for "supervisor/superviseur" in the context of its Hyper-V software. It may be that the source text should read " ... par le hyperviseur Hyper-V de Windows Server" - the term "hyperviseur" IS found in the MS lexical database in the context of its Hyper-V software (http://www.microsoft.com/Language/fr-fr/Search.aspx?sString=... - and this translates to "hypervisor".

Support that this term is the correct one in the context given : "Hyper-V implements isolation of virtual machines in terms of a partition. A partition is a logical unit of isolation, supported by the hypervisor ..." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V

Daryo Jul 8, 2014:

"Hyper-V Windows Server" is not the problem whether there is 30 or 30 000 000 ghits;

the problem is in the name for the kind of software that is running all that (and insuring strict insulation of each Virtual Machine NOT the user interface [with humans])- if you do some basic check it's called a "hypervisor" not a "supervisor"

"... Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian[5] and formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, is a native hypervisor that enables platform virtualization on x86-64 systems ..."
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V]

Jana Cole (asker) Jul 8, 2014:

It's the name of a product, so maybe a shorter (more marketable?) name is being used. I get approximately 300,000 hits for "Hyper-V de Windows Server."

Daryo Jul 8, 2014:

@musilang something doesn't add up in your ST - it should be "hypervisor/hyperviseur"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperviseur