I'm sure you've seen many post on Hyper-V in the past few days...I've also noticed a few posts related to technology that supports (or will support Hyper-V): Virtual Server to Hyper-V tool MAP3.1 DPM 2007   Anyone spotted others?   Mark also pulled together a list of Hyper-V videos.  ...

I'm sure you've already subscribed, if not....   System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008; System Center Operations Manager 2007; Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 We are pleased to announce that the Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Beta has been updated! We have added the System...

TechNet Webcast: Managing Hyper-V Virtual Machines with WMI and Windows PowerShell (Level 300) Event ID: 1032381324 Wednesday, July 02, 2008 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview Before the beta release of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, there was only one option...

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (or MAP) is the next-generation version of the agent-less assessment platform from Microsoft. In this new version, MAP has expanded its capabilities into assessment areas of Hyper-V server virtualization, desktop security, and SQL 2008 migration. In summary...

If you go to https://connect.microsoft.com the update that allows SCVMM to work with Hyper-V RC1 is now available Update for SCVMM 2008 Beta - (You can access this from the downloads page). Install this update to enable Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta (VMM) to function with Release Candidate 1 (RC1...

The answer is yes! More details here The Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team has just released the third-generation of the agent-less infrastructure assessment platform called Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator 3.0 (or simply MAP). Through the use of remote WMI calls and secure inventory...

DPM 2007 and  Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 backups explained here: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dpm/flash/virtualization/index.html   Technorati Tags: scvmm , virtual server , dpm

Good news this morning.... The virtualization team is pleased to announce the public beta release of the Hyper-V WMI interfaces . Hyper-V WMI APIs . Hyper-V uses WMI APIs (similar to the Virtual Server COM API) to create, manage, monitor, configure virtual resources. We expect the Hyper-V WMI APIs to...

No doubt you've already seen this announcement, being keen all things virtualization people... http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2007/12/12/Yes_2C00_-Virginia_2C00_-there-is-a-Hyper_2D00_V-beta.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2007/12/13/happy-holidays-windows-server...

Dugie kindly pushed out some great stats last week (which I forgot to blog about at the time...it's been a busy two weeks!). Anyway if you want to take a look at some numbers Microsoft IT made available, Andrew's post has them. I hope we get the numbers in watts soon! Technorati tags: virtualization...

"These are the first of several cookbooks to help SI partner consultants get up to speed to deploy virtualisation solutions in record time. These are step-by-step, one-stop documents with all the details, tips/tricks to build a working solution" For more information take a look at Matt's blog or at Virblog...

The main website has undergone a major overhaul - take a look here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualization/default.mspx I particularly like the look of the new layout, the resources seem easy to find (which wasn't always the case on the old site) Have fun... Clive Technorati tags...

The wait is over, you can now download from here . Extra details can be found here and in the FAQ from where I pulled out these details on the new features. Bink.nu also has more of a write up than time allows me to produce today What's New in This Release Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 includes...

I'll admit I just assumed we didn't have a forum for Virtualization hosted on Microsoft.com, but actually the Technet guys do (thanks!). So if you're as surprised as me and are interested, head over to the Windows Server Virtualization forum. There is also a Windows Server "Longhorn" forum as well (of...

I'm very sure you've all seen this by now...just in case you haven't, you can get more details from Arlindo's blog. As well as seeing the virtualization features you'll also get to see SCVMM and PowerShell.

So Virtual PC 2007 has just released, with amongst other things support for Vista as a host or guest Ben , John , Keith and Kevin have more details...roll on Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 The download is here and there is also an updated Virtual PC Website

It does what the title suggests, get it here . The Windows Server Virtualization Calculator provides two ways to estimate the number and cost of Windows Server Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and Datacenter Edition licenses needed for your virtualization scenarios to help you determine the most...

I forgot to post this earlier, so I guess you've read this already on John's blog or from the press announcement .

You will see that the VHD licence is no longer royalty-free, from now on it will be OSP (Open Specification Promise), " an irrevocable promise from Microsoft to every individual and organization in the world to make use of this patented technology for free, now and forever when implementing specified...

I got an email from the technical writer for SCVMM help files over the weekend, she has been reading my posts about SCVMM specifically liking some of the warnings comments I have mentioned. This was good to know, and I'll make sure I'm clearer when posting a warning, hint or tip in the future. So can...

The following screen grab shows a single running Virtual Server host machine in the “Infrastructure Hosts” group. I've circled the state information which shows "responding", meaning that the server that's running Virtual Server 2005 R2 is available, this view is visible if you select the "hosts" view...

One of the great SCVMM features is the ability to simply, create a "Host Group" under the "Managed Computers" object. In this example I have created two sub groups, the one I'll detail here is UK, I could also create child groups under these parents. When you look at the properties of this group...

...another subject I wish I have time to blog about today! More details once again on PressPass: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jul06/07-17MSXenSourcePR.mspx . Microsoft and XenSource to Develop Interoperability for Windows Server “Longhorn” Virtualization Collaboration will enable...

This is something I’ve wished I could have blogged about weeks ago, still here are all the details on our System Center Virtual Machine Manager (formally called “Carmine”). System Center Virtual Machine Manager is a standalone server application used to manage a virtualized datacenter running either...

Following yesterdays post about links, I thought I'd mention our Case Study Website , I've lost count of the times people and partners have asked for a document that is freely available and easy to find on this site...I guess you have to know where to go and look :-) Just navigate to the Find a Case...