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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...

Filed under: Hyper-V, Virtualization, Management tools, System Center, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, ESX, virtual machine, VMWare, Management, Community, VMM 2008, virtualization management, .NET, Visual Studio

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...

Filed under: Virtual Server, Hyper-V, Virtualization, integrated virtualization, Management tools, System Center, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Microsoft Application Virtualization, Windows Virtualization, virtual machine, VMWare, Management, VMM 2008, virtualization management, Windows Server 2008, Virtual PC

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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VMworld is over, but the facts remain

Published 26 September 8 5:47 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

I’ve been to Las Vegas too many times to count and have always left with good stories, but I never thought that my best Vegas story would be work-related. That story of course is about last week’s marketing activity at VMworld . Definitely not your typical day at the office. While I have enjoyed the headlines (My Favorite: Microsoft attacks VMware with Poker Chips ), the speculation as to what transpired...

Filed under: Hyper-V, Virtualization, integrated virtualization, ESX, Windows Virtualization, virtual machine, VMWare, Community, virtualization management, Windows Server 2008

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...

Filed under: Hyper-V, Management tools, System Center, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Citrix, VDI, Microsoft Application Virtualization, Application Virtualization, ESX, VMWare, VMM 2008, virtualization management, Windows Server 2008

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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The Validated Hypervisor

Published 3 September 8 7:0 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

By now you might have seen that VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 has passed the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program . They announced it here . today announced it has qualified its industry-leading VMware ESX hypervisor under the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 (ESX 3.5u2) is the first hypervisor to be listed under the program, providing VMware...

Filed under: Hyper-V, Virtualization, Citrix, Interop, ESX, Windows Virtualization, virtual machine, VMWare, XEN Virtual Server, Sun, Windows Server 2008

Thoughts on today's virtualization licensing and support news

Published 19 August 8 3:1 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Today we announced some changes to server application licensing and support policies related to running MS server apps on top of anyone's hypervisor. Several folks have written or blogged about it, here are some: Chris Wolf (Burton Group) Virtualization.info NetworkWorld Windows IT Pro Thoughts on application mobility licensing As of Sept. 1, 41 Microsoft server applications are covered, both per...

Filed under: Hyper-V, Virtualization, System Center, Interop, Application Virtualization, ESX, Windows Virtualization, virtual machine, VMWare, Management, XEN Virtual Server, Sun, Novell, Windows Server 2008

Guest Post: Why Microsoft and Hyper-V for HostBasket

Published 28 July 8 3:53 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Hi, my name is Bert Van Pottelberghe, business unit manager at Hostbasket , which is the leading hosting company and SaaS-provider in Belgium with over 30,000 SMB customers. In a recent survey of our datacenter with over 1,000 servers, we saw that the average CPU-usage was only 12%. On the other hand, investments in new server hardware, datacenter space and the cost of power and cooling – now at an...

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Guest Post: Going Live with Hyper-V for MyHosting.com

Published 28 July 8 3:44 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Hi, my name is Stephen Nichols, VP of sales and marketing for SoftCom Technology Consulting, which is the company behind MyHosting.com , a leading global provider of affordable web, email and application hosting. We have been actively engaged with Microsoft technologies since we began in the h osting industry back in 1997. We are part of Gold Certified Partner program with competencies in Data Management...

Filed under: Virtual Server, Hyper-V, Virtualization, integrated virtualization, Windows Virtualization, virtual machine, VMWare, Windows Server 2008

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...

Filed under: Hyper-V, Management tools, System Center, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Citrix, Interop, ESX, virtual machine, VMWare, VMM 2008, virtualization management, Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Tool, Virtuallization Solution Accelerators, Windows Server 2008

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...

Filed under: Hyper-V, Virtualization, Management tools, System Center, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Microsoft Application Virtualization, Application Virtualization, ESX, virtual machine, VMWare, MVP Summit, VMM 2008, virtualization management, Windows Server 2008

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...

Filed under: Virtual Server, Hyper-V, Virtualization, System Center, VMWare, VMM 2008, virtualization management, .NET, Windows Server 2008

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...

Filed under: Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, ESX, VMWare, VMM 2008

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 beta has arrived

Published 29 April 8 12:30 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Hi - this is Hector Linares, I am a Program Manager on the team that built System Center Virtual Machine Manager. I'm happy to report that we released the feature complete public beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (formerly known as vNext) today! We've heard a lot of great feedback from customers and partners since SCVMM 2007 was released last September which we took into account...

Filed under: Virtual Server, Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, ESX, Windows Virtualization, virtual machine, VMWare, Management