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Videos to watch: Mark Russinovich; Virt and cloud computing panel

Published 10 December 8 3:0 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Before I start hunkering down for what's supposed to be a snowy weekend in Redmond, and without college football on TV, I wanted to pass along a couple videos that are worth a watch. First, TechTarget interviewed Mark Russinovich, technical follow, about Windows 7, WS08 R2, virtualization and Vista. It's about 8 minutes long. You can watch Mark's interview here . Second, this week Mike...

Filed under: Hyper-V, Virtualization, integrated virtualization, Management tools, System Center, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, VDI, ESX, Windows Virtualization, virtual machine, VMWare, Management, VMM 2008, virtualization management, Windows Server 2008, Cloud Computing

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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Guest Post: Intel Inside for Hyper-V Virtualization

Published 27 October 8 10:43 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Hi my name is Radhakrishna Hiremane, a senior product marketing engineer at Intel based in Portland, Oregon, and I’m responsible for marketing of virtualization technology on Intel servers and workstations. Microsoft recently extended the processor core support for Hyper-V to 24-cores. A shift from the initially announced 16 core support in Hyper-V, this highlights the long standing collaboration between...

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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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For $50,000, I could pay someone to move my virtual machines for me

Published 6 October 8 2:47 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

The title of this post will make sense in a moment. It's a quote from a customer in Australia ... and pretty funny one, too. But before that, a few items crossed my inbox that I thought I'd share: Software vendor AspenTech has a process engineering/manufacturing application called aspenONE. Today they announced that their customer BASF deployed aspenONE using Microsoft App-V. I found this interesting...

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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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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...

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Hyper-V: Dynamic versus Fixed VHD Performance

Published 19 September 8 1:41 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Tim Litton posted a blog about performance optimization for Hyper-V, looking at fixed versus dynamic VHDs. Here's an excerpt: The following graph shows the relative performances for a number of different scenarios (with Dynamic VHD being the baseline). Fixed VHD always performs better than a Dynamic VHD in most scenarios by roughly 10% to 15% with the exception of 4k writes, where Fixed VHD performs...

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Pre-VMworld: Check out Hyper-V Server and Live Migration demos

Published 11 September 8 11:33 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

While you getting ready for the weekend, or getting ready to head to Vegas, you might be interested to check out these first-look demos of Hyper-V Server 2008 (standalone hypervisor, due in a few weeks) and live migration with Windows Server 2008 R2. Adam wrote this about the Hyper-V Server demo: The Virtualization Launch this week revealed Hyper-V Server for the first time ever - a dedicated OS just...

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Guest Post: Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Published 10 September 8 12:54 PM | Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Hello, my name is Karl Schulmeisters, director of alliance technology and architecture for the Microsoft global alliance at Unisys. We are a global systems integrator that focuses on large scale-up solutions particularly in the public sector, financial services, federal government and pharmaceuticals industries. I watched Monday’s mid-day keynote at the Virtualization Launch in Bellevue , in which...

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