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Guest post: Moving VM automation and inventory beyond Excel files
Published 19 November 8 12:28 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Hi, I’m John Suit, CTO and principal founder of Fortisphere , which is a member of the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program . In this tough economy, the cost savings of virtualization are driving faster adoption – and the introduction of Microsoft Hyper-V is exposing more companies, large and small, to the benefits of this deceptively simple technology. In fact, from what we’ve seen, the scale of...
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Visual Studio 2010 lab management uses virtualization
Published 12 November 8 2:10 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
There are 4 million .NET developers in the world, so I figure one or two might read this blog, or you might know someone. A couple weeks ago at the Professional Developers Conference , we began discussing , and announced a CTP, of Visual Studio 10 . One of the many features of VS10 is lab management, which leverages virtualization to enable software development and test teams to build higer quality...
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New VDI, Management Technology Announced
Published 3 November 8 11:17 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
A few items to call out. First up is Manlio's post about the renaming of Terminal Services - it'll be known as Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 -- and the new VDI features. Here's an excerpt: The key here is that RDS in Windows Server 2008 R2 makes the new server OS the ideal platform for companies to implement a centralized desktop strategy and for partners to provide...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTMs and what I’m hearing from customers and partners about Microsoft’s virtualization solutions
Published 21 October 8 12:52 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTMs and what I’m hearing from customers and partners about Microsoft’s virtualization solutions I’m Zane Adam, sr. director of virtualization strategy here in Redmond at Microsoft. I’m writing today to announce the exciting news that we’ve released to manufacturing (RTM’d) System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and to talk a bit about its critical role...
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Guest post: IU Hoosier virtualizes 75% of workloads - saving time and money with System Center, PowerShell, and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Published 21 October 8 12:50 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Hi, I’m Janssen Jones, and I’m the Associate Director of Auxiliary IT Infrastructure at Indiana University. Since April, my team has been evaluating the beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) as part of the SCVMM Technology Adoption Program, and in the past six months, we’ve made great strides in virtualizing our IT Infrastructure on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V clusters and managing...
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Guest post: Hyper-V Performance Scales Well in 24-Core Dell Server
Published 15 October 8 1:33 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
My name is Todd Muirhead and I’m one of the engineers behind Dell’s online community for IT professionals – DellTechCenter . This means that I get to work with all of the latest Dell servers and storage and provide technical guidance and assistance to customers. The goal is to help people understand how they can use our products to create solutions. From my techno-geek perspective the cool part is...
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Guest post: virtualization requires the proper perspective
Published 9 October 8 10:9 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Hi, I’m Doug de Werd, technical marketing manager for Windows Virtualization at Hewlett-Packard . In the past few weeks following the Microsoft virtualization launch event in Bellevue the virtualization buzz keeps growing louder and louder. We keep hearing more and more from customers that virtualization is a key component of their IT infrastructure strategy. IT organizations fall across a wide spectrum...
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Bare metal hypervisor is here, along with new training, services
Published 1 October 8 7:28 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
"Bare metal" was my attempt at being dramatic ;-) Anyway, I really wanted you to know that the standalone hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 , was released today for download. This is the no-cost, bare metal hypervisor. Think ESXi, but with Windows and not Linux. More on this in a bit. Today we also announced new virtualization training and certification program. You're qualified...
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Before we get to VMworld Vegas
Published 10 September 8 9:26 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
My ears are still ringing from Monday's virtualization event in Bellevue. Not necessarily from the keynotes or demos, but mainly from being 10 feet away from the stage as the band Live played a 60+ minute set during the party. Here's a photo I snapped with my T-Mobile Dash. I was fortunate enough to meet and speak with several customers and partners (and the members of Live). It was great to...
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MS Hyper-V Server: in 30 days for $0
Published 7 September 8 10:57 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
The show begins in 10 hours, but the news it out: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, a new hypervisor-based server virtualization product (like ESXi), will be released within 30 days and be available at no cost via the Web Microsoft will demonstrate live migration feature of Windows Server 2008 R2. And the next version of Microsoft Hyper-V Server (the one after 2008) will have live migration capabilities...
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Virtualization Feed for Your RSS Reader
Published 27 August 8 12:6 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
With a "tip of the cap" to creators of Planet V12n blog , we've just launched a blog and Twitter aggregator for virtualization. It's called VirtualizationFeed . Like Planet V12n, this site aggregates virtualization blogs from lots of sources. In this case, 18 independent bloggers and 14 Microsoft bloggers on either TechNet or MSDN. I'm sure you'll recognize many of the names...
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VM standards, offline patching tools
Published 15 July 8 10:58 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
Quick post here on two items. Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool can be downloaded here . As blogged about at by the System Center team blog , Virtualization.info , and InfoWorld blog . This product allows the update of large-scale deployments of virtual machines, leveraging PowerShell, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2007 and WSUS 3.0 (or Configuration Manager 2007). As Alessandro...
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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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Virtualization wrap from TechEd IT Pro
Published 10 June 8 9:10 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog
I'm NOT in Orlando this week attending TechEd IT Pro conference. That means I get to enjoy Redmond's "wintery" spring weather and not Orlando's hot/humid thunderstorms. For those of you also NOT in Orlando, you can follow along with the happenings at a few spots: Scott Lowe's blog , focus on virtualization (and expect comparisons to VMware's tools) Margie Semilof from...
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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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