June 2008 - Posts

Top 5 things to know about Hyper-V
Published 30 June 8 5:32 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
My name is Ronald Beekelaar. I'm a Microsoft MVP of Virtual Machine Technology, based in Amsterdam. I have my own consultancy firm, and since 2002 I focus on virtualization. At first, this was strictly VMware-oriented, but a few years later this included Microsoft's virtualization products as well. Since the first public beta of Hyper-V more than a year ago, I have done many presentations about...
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WS08 Hyper-V as RTMed!!!!
Published 28 June 8 8:57 AM | ALL TOPICS PERFORMANCE : Hyper-V
Wow its been a great ride helping get Hyper-V to perform the way it does. So much so I've not posted in a while. You will see some upcoming posts on performance counters, WMI perf interfaces, and real data (yes now with RTM I can post data). In the...
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Production Release of Hyper-V has finally been arrived!
Published 27 June 8 4:2 PM | vp
Microsoft's Virtualization Software Hyper-V has finally been RTM'd and available for download from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F3AB3D4B-63C8-4424-A738-BADED34D24ED&displaylang=en
Final Version of Hyper-V has finally arrived!
Published 27 June 8 7:59 AM | Tech Notes!
Microsoft's Virtualization Software Hyper-V has finally been RTM'd and available for download from here
Achtung! 3,500 BMW dealerships going virtual
Published 26 June 8 11:0 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Continuing with yesterday's theme... on the first day of "Virt-Mas" my true love brought to me - 3,500 BMW dealerships that will be deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V later this year. Before sharing BMW's story, I first wanted to say "thanks" to Mark and Dugie for their comments to me today. And Frank at QLogic launched a Web page today where you can learn more about...
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WU-hoo! Only 12 Days to WU
Published 26 June 8 9:11 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
It’s Christmas in July… As you may have heard, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V was released today, and is now available to download . July 8 th will mark Hyper-V’s Release to Windows Update . You may remember when we released the first Hyper-V beta , it was right around Christmas. We’re bringing the joy of the holidays back to you with the “12 Days of Virt-Mas.” And so, let’s make merry… In celebration...
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VMware Pioneers Decouple Dynamic Analysis
Published 25 June 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
Researchers at VMware have pioneered a novel technique in dynamic analysis, one that separates the running program from the analysis tool, by use of virtual containers. Read More...
Hyper-V Made Available
Published 25 June 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
Microsoft's first major push into the virtualization space officially kicks off today, as Hyper-V has been released to manufacturing (RTM). Read More...
Hyper-V WMI – Startup-Shutdown-Recover/Snapshots/Error Messages
Published 18 June 8 9:36 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
On Saturday I posted that I have started my own blog and promised to provide summery post to this blog for a while…  There are new three posts at http://blogs.msdn.com/taylorb that are not on this blog. Hyper-V WMI – Configuring Automatic Startup/Shutdown/Recovery Action’s For Virtual Machines Hyper-V WMI: Creating/Applying/Deleting Virtual Machine Snapshots Hyper-V WMI: Rich Error Messages for...
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Windows Server Performance 2008 Tuning guide now includes Hyper-V
Published 18 June 8 11:58 AM | ALL TOPICS PERFORMANCE : Hyper-V
The Windows Server Performance team has updated teh Window Server 2008 Tuning guide to include Hyper-V. The Hyper-V section provide a lot of recommendations you will find useful. Check it out below... http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance/archive...
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Great source of Hyper-V performance oriented information
Published 17 June 8 10:51 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Virtualization Nation, Greetings! Quick note today. :-) If you are looking for some good performance oriented information on Hyper-V please check out Tony Voellm's blog. Tony is the Hyper-V Performance Team Lead, Performance Architect, Performance Nut, you get the idea... His blog is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/tvoellm/archive/tags/Hyper-V/default.aspx Some recent posts have included: Hyper-V Performance...
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Novell, Microsoft Partner on Server Virtualization, Server 2008 on SuSE
Published 15 June 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
Novell announced last Wednesday that it has joined Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program. Read More...
Xenocode Virtualizes Apps
Published 14 June 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
Virtualization and development tools supplier Xenocode has released a suite of tools for adapting, configuring and delivering Win32- and Java-based applications within a free-standing, virtualized environment on the host Windows OS. Read More...
Taylorb’s New Blog
Published 14 June 8 4:31 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
I have been posting on the Virtualization Team Blog for the last month or so now and it’s been a blast!  From the comments on the posts and the e-mails I have been getting it seems like the content is helpful – which is great!  So I have started my own blog http://blogs.msdn.com/taylorb , I have replicated all of the posts to that blog and have started adding new posts!  This will make...
RC1 for Hyper-V Now Available for Download
Published 12 June 8 5:0 PM | Virtualization Review | News
IT pros wanting to try out the latest Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology can now get the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version via Windows Update. Read More...
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