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  • Blog Post: Hyper-V: Virtual Machine Bus cannot find enough resources

    A few weeks ago my colleague installed Hyper-V onto her laptop and she copied one of her Virtual Machines onto this server. When she booted the server there where some issues with the virtual machine, the main issue was that the vmbus technology was not available. After a bit of troubleshooting I find...
  • Blog Post: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.2 Release for Beta!

    Many of our customers do not know what computers are in their IT environment or what applications have been deployed.  The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 3.2 Beta makes it easier for customers and partners to quickly identify what servers, workstations, and network devices are in...
  • Blog Post: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition evaluation VHD's

    Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Enterprise Edition and Server Core Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images are now available for Hyper-V and Virtual Server Download the Hyper-V VHD's from here Download the Virtual Server VHD's from here Technorati Tags: Hyper-V , Virtual Server , Windows Server 2008 , Virtualization
  • Blog Post: Installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta Part II

    In the first part of this blogpost I’ve explained how you can install and what to expect during the installation of the server components of SCVMM 2008 Beta. Now we are going through the Console installation ( not much to go through though) and I’ll show how to add a Hyper-V host to SCVMM both using...
  • Blog Post: Installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta Part I

    As I mentioned in me previous post System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 Beta is available for download and as a coincidence (believe it or not but it's true) I installed the bits today to test this new management tool. The installation process of SCVMM is very straightforward during...
  • Blog Post: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta available

    It has been announced at MMS conference during Bob Muglia his keynote System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta is publicly available at the connect site. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 enables customers to configure and deploy new virtual machines and to centrally manage their virtualized...
  • Blog Post: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator

    Assess Infrastructure Readiness for OS Migration and Virtualization with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator ! No IT project can be successful unless the specific network environment is well understood.  To help IT professionals and Microsoft Partners solve common migration...
  • Blog Post: Notes From the Field: Virtualization Strategy @ the customer

    Last week I gave a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 session for a Belgian partner and I had the opportunity to talk to some of the IT Pro's who attended my session and here is an excerpt of a mail I received from one of those IT Professionals who relies on our Technology to run their infrastructure...
  • Blog Post: Hyper-V Network Switch

    Hyper-V is changing the way networking works if you compare it to Virtual Server. Today I was reconfiguring my Hyper-V server and suddenly I've lost my RDP connection. Why did I lost my connection to the server? Well I was reconfiguring the networking settings and I wanted to add a network adapter to...
  • Blog Post: Notes From the field: Virtualization, Data Protection Manager and Operations Manager

    As promised I'm writing another post about what feedback I receive from our IT Pro's in the IT Pro Momentum Program . Hyper-V: Installing W2K8 and Hyper-V was very easy.  We’re heavily using Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 and Virtual Machine Manager, and there’s virtually no learning curve...
  • Blog Post: Hyper-V WMI API's publicly available

    Hyper-V WMI APIs . Hyper-V uses WMI APIs (similar to the Virtual Server COM API) to create, manage, monitor, configure virtual resources. The Hyper-V WMI APIs are publicly available here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc136992(VS.85).aspx Important: This documentation is preliminary and is...
  • Blog Post: IT-Talks UG Event Dec 8: Configuring, operating and backing up virtual platforms

    IT-Talks organizes another event around Virtualization. Configuring, operating and backing up virtual platforms Topics of the Day: Configure and operate virtual platforms (Manu Verzelen) Virtualization in a data center (Kurt Ghekiere - RIS< )">http://www.ris.be/> ) Application Virtualization...
  • Blog Post: VMRCplus 1.6.0 available on Microsoft Download Center

    What's new in VMRCplus 1.6.0? The UI reflects Virtual Server terminology. VMRCplus now offers configuration of scripts on both the Virtual Server and Virtual Machine level. VMRCplus offers configuring promiscuous mode on the network so you can trace traffic in the virtual switch. This is something Virtual...
  • Blog Post: Customer Case: Microsoft Virtualization and X64 Technology

    The RPC Group, a packaging supplier with almost 30 plants in continental Europe, wanted to consolidate IT operations across multiple facilities. To streamline financial reporting and provide high availability, RPC decided to virtualize its environment by running several virtual machines on each physical...
  • Blog Post: Talking About Virtualization

    There has been quite some noise around the talk that Eric Traut (Distinguished Engineer) give at the University of Illinois. During his talk Eric showed something is called MinWin which is a stripped kernel of Windows 7 that will be the basis of our future products. Not just the Windows OS but it's also...
  • Blog Post: New Virtual Machine Additions for Linux

    Now with support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Microsoft is committed to testing and supporting many third-party operating systems for use as guest operating systems on Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 virtual machines. To help make sure that you have a favorable experience when you run third-party guest...
  • Blog Post: DPM 2007 Release Candidate

    The DPM website has been updated ( www.microsoft.com/DPM ) - with new information on the upcoming release of DPM 2007, pricing/licensing details, and best of all - new downloads. We have a release candidate for DPM 2007 - and now everyone can start to evaluate it. This evaluation downloadable is the...
  • Blog Post: Virtualization Cookbooks

    If you are looking to Virtualize your physical servers, applications than you will find valuable information in the cookbooks we've created for you. You will find information about Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1, Data Protection Manager, System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Terminal Servers. Name Description...
  • Blog Post: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is RTM

    I'm very pleased we announced that System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is RTM. This is a key product in the Virtualization world, now you will be able to manage your Virtual Server environment with a top class Management product. Think about it if today you have to manage multiple Physical hosts...
  • Blog Post: Microsoft Licensing in a Virtualized environment

    Reading through different blogs I encountered a blogpost about Microsoft Licensing and Server Virtualization. I embedded a Video from Eric Jewett who is a Lead Product Manager at Microsoft. In this video Eric explains in half an hour what the licensing differences are between our three Windows Server...
  • Blog Post: New Virtualization Video's online

    Virtualization in Windows Server Mike Neil, General Manager The session features a discussion of the virtualization technology roadmap and an outline of Microsoft's vision for how these technologies will combine with future capabilities in processors, chipsets, and I/O devices to enable unprecedented...
  • Blog Post: Dev & IT Pro Days 2007: Virtualization Pre Conference Sessions

    It has been a while since the Dev & IT Pro Days have been delivered but today I found a link to the recorded sessions of Ronald Beekelaar about the Virtualization technology. Now this has not been recorded at our event, because the Pre Conference about Virtualization was a part of a bigger EMEA tour...
  • Blog Post: Windows Server 2008 Server Core and VS 2005 Part II

    Like I mentioned in a previous post I would be playing around with Server Core and Virtual Server 2005 just to see how it works. So what I have done is I installed a new Windows Server 2008 Server Core onto my physical box. The installation is straight forward, just make sure you select Server Core,...
  • Blog Post: Virtual Server 2005 on top of Windows Server 2008 Server Core

    I knew that Virtual Server 2005 was running on top of Windows Server 2008 without any problem because I am using this as a demo machine. Yes I know it's kind of tricky to use a beta Operating System as demo environment but I he I believe in our software :) Now according to Ben Armstrong's ( Virtual PC...
  • Blog Post: Manage your Virtual Server Machines with VMRC Plus

    One of my colleagues developed a tool called VMRC Plus which is an improved version of the VMRC client that is deployed together with Virtual Server 2005. As soon as I got the link I downloaded this tool, installed it on my machine. Unfortunately I didn't have Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 running. So I...
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