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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...

Filed under: Virtual Server, Hyper-V, Virtualization, integrated virtualization, Management tools, ESX, Windows Virtualization, virtual machine, VMWare, Community, XEN Virtual Server, Windows Server 2008

Virtualization and Interoperability

Published 2 June 8 10:14 AM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Two weeks ago three members of the interoperability Vendor Alliance were in Redmond to test the interoperability capabilities of their virtualization technologies. Citrix, Novell and Sun tested some interoperability scenarios with us here at Microsoft that aim to prove how interoperability is possible on heterogeneous environments where customers are running virtualized environment on multiple platforms...

Filed under: Hyper-V, Citrix, XEN Virtual Server, IBM WebSphere, Sun, Sun XVM, Interop Vendor Alliance, Novell, .NET