Ciao a tutti,

mentre eravamo in vacanza a Redmond si davano da fare :

• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 è disponibile per il download (la versione di valutazione 180gg) http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/virtualmachinemanager/en/us/default.aspx  la pubblicazione della versione non di valutazione è prevista per il 1 ottobre 2009

       VMM 2008 R2 highlights:

• Live Migration -- for moving virtual machines between hosts with no downtime

• Additional enhanced migration support for SAN migration in and out of clusters

• Multiple virtual machines per LUN using Clustered Share Volumes

• Hot add of virtual machine storage

• Functionality to migrate storage for running VMs

• iSCSI target and SAN-based migration across clusters

• Template-based rapid provisioning

• Maintenance mode to automate the evacuation of VMs off host machines,

• Live Migration host compatibility checks

• Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP2 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a206ae20-2695-436c-9578-3403a7d46e40#tm

      WSUS 3.0 SP2 delivers important customer-requested management, stability, and performance improvements. Some of the features and improvements include the following:

• Integration with Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Support for the BranchCache feature in Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 clients.
• Compliance Report
• Windows Update Agent (WUA) offers a collection of performance enhancements, user experience improvements, and bug fixes software updates

• Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c299d675-bb9f-41cf-b5eb-74d0595ccc5c&displaylang=en

        This version of the Linux Integration Components supports the following versions of Hyper-V:

• Windows Server® 2008 Standard, Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise, and Windows Server® 2008 Datacenter (64-bit versions only)
• Microsoft® Hyper-V Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V RTM (Build 7600) Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 RTM (Build 7600)

       The Linux Integration Components support the following operating systems as virtual machines:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 x86 and x64
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 x86 and x64

Dario

Risorse correlate:

Linux Integration Components

http://blogs.technet.com/feliciano_intini/archive/2009/07/20/hyper-v-integration-components-per-linux-e-gplv2.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/pgmalusardi/archive/2009/08/27/rilasciati-i-linux-integration-components-per-hyper-v-v2.aspx

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

http://blogs.technet.com/pgmalusardi/archive/2009/08/24/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2008-r2-in-rtm.aspx