May 2008 - Posts

More VMware Buzz as B-hive Acquisition Announced
Published 28 May 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
When you have most of the marbles, it never hurts to have a few more. Read More...
Hyper-V Release Candidate 1 (RC1) Available on Windows Update!
Published 27 May 8 10:53 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
The Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of Hyper-V is now available as a optional update on Windows Update. Optional updates are not installed automatically by default. To install the update open the Windows Update control panel and click “ View available updates ” under the “ Install Updates ” button. Then check the Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB950049) and click install. If you don’t see the update listed...
Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts – Part 5
Published 26 May 8 11:31 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend – we had a four day weekend on the Hyper-V team which was excellent!  In this post I am going to show how to create a new virtual switch attached to an external network.  I’ll start with a complete script and then take it apart and explain what each part is doing. $VirtualSwitchService = get-wmiobject -class "Msvm_VirtualSwitchManagementService"...
Hyper-V Deployment Case Study – Sporton International
Published 21 May 8 4:0 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Managing 60 servers is no small feat when it comes to midsize company, Sporton International in Taiwan. With limited IT resources, Sporton decided to turn to Systex Corporation (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner) to explore options to virtualize their physical servers in an effort to reduce operation cost while improving the agility and manageability of their server assets. Here're the case study...
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Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell - Part 4 and Negative 1
Published 21 May 8 12:10 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
I hope everyone is enjoying Hyper-V RC1 (yep I just linked to my own post -shamless maybe) but, as promissed here's some more WMI goodness. Title got your attention? Well this is a two part post… First I will show how to use the Shutdown IC to initiate a shutdown of a guest using PowerShell (that's part 4) Ok so why Negative 1? Well what did we do before PowerShell (yeah yeah vbscript but go...
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VMware Enhances Thin Client Partnerships
Published 20 May 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
Stealing some thunder from Citrix's recent XenDesktop unveiling, VMware has made several announcements aimed at strengthening partnerships with thin client suppliers. Read More...
Industry Buzz about Hyper-V
Published 20 May 8 4:8 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Greetings! Robb Mapp here again, I’m the analyst relations manager in Server & Tools focused on Integrated Virtualization and System Center management tools. Post-MMS, and leading up to general availability this summer, we’re hearing a lot of great buzz in the industry about Hyper-V + VMM 2008 and I’d like to point out some recent analyst predictions for Microsoft’s impact on the server virtualization...
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MSDN and TechNet Powered by Hyper-V
Published 20 May 8 8:2 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Hi—I am Rob Emanuel from the Microsoft.com Operations team. For those of you who may not know what we do, our group designs, deploys, manages and sustains highly available, highly scalable Web and SQL systems for Microsoft for some of the largest corporate web sites in the world ( www.microsoft.com , Microsoft Update , Download Center , MSDN and TechNet ). Along with our team’s TechCenter , we maintain...
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Hyper-V RC1 Release Available on Microsoft Download Center!
Published 20 May 8 2:0 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Apologies for a lack of a new post on the WMI scripts, look for a new double part post Wednesday morning. I was a bit busy with Hyper-V RC1! As of 3AM PST I am very happy to be the first (I think) to announce Hyper-V RC1 is now available for public download via the Microsoft Download Center. I want to personally thank the great team of Testers, Developers and Program Mangers that make up the Hyper...
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Citrix Debuts New Desktop Appliance Partner Program
Published 19 May 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
Citrix today announced a new Desktop Appliance Partner Program. Appliances and thin clients are important elements in the emerging value chain for hosted desktop virtualization solutions both in terms of end user expectations for performance and ease of installation. Read More...
New Hyper-V Release Candidate Out
Published 19 May 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
Microsoft today published a new release candidate (RC2) of its first enterprise-class hypervisor, Hyper-V. The release marks the next step of what has been a quick march to commercial availability for a critical product in Microsoft's emerging virtualization lineup. Read More...
XenDesktop Details Emerge as Product Begins Shipping
Published 19 May 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
With a tiered pricing structure designed to undercut VMware's offerings, Citrix has announced the availability of XenDesktop, its much anticipated and discussed product offering in the increasingly important desktop virtualization arena. Read More...
HP Expands Desktop Virtualization with Thin Client
Published 19 May 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
Hewlett-Packard has expanded its role in the desktop virtualization arena with new mobile thin client hardware, extended software offerings and deeper industry alliances. Read More...
Beta Version of Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool Now Available
Published 14 May 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
Microsoft last week released a beta version of its Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool on the Microsoft Connect site. Read More...
New VMware Deployment, Disaster Recovery Apps Available
Published 12 May 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
On Monday, VMware announced the release of two new virtualization management products: VMware Site Recovery Manager, a data and disaster recovery tool for datacenters, and VMware Stage Manager, designed for automating the delivery of virtualized applications...
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