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Blog Post: Increasing the speed of an OS install when using SCSI disks

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This article is contributed by Jeff Woolsey, our Virtual Server 2005 Program Manager. Thanks Jeff! To increase the performance of the OS install (F6 option) when using emulated SCSI disks you can create a diskette to load the faster SCSI drivers that are included with the Virtual Machine Additions. To...

on 4 Dec 2004
Blog Post: Virtual Server Performance Tips

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Here are some guidelines for optimizing the performance of your virtual machines from Jeff Woolsey, Lead Program Manager for virtual machine technologies here at Microsoft. Thanks Jeff! ---------------------------------- Hardware virtualization is an extremely powerful tool. When wielded properly...

on 9 Jun 2005
Blog Post: Estimating system capacity requirements

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I've gotten a number of queries about estimating how many virtual machines can be run on a given host computer. In order to provide a general answer from which you can extrapolate for your own situation, I'm going to approach this issue from the other side -- estimating the host system capacity required...

on 7 Apr 2005
Blog Post: Sysprepping a virtual machine

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I learned how to do this at TechEd 2004 in a lab led by Robert Larson, one of our resident Virtual Server gurus. You can create a “base” virtual machine with the operating system and applications you want, and then copy its .vhd file to use for other virtual machines. When you do this, it’s important...

on 21 Jan 2005
Blog Post: MOM report for evaluating virtualization candidates

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Chong Lee and Thomas Matthew -- Technology Specialists here at Microsoft -- are developing a report that you can load into Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) to monitor the performance of physical computers that are virtualization candidates. The first section of this article is Chong's explanation of...

on 15 Apr 2005
Blog Post: Deploying Virtual Server: Q&A

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I just listened in on a conference call between Ben Armstrong ( http://blogs.msdn.com/Virtual_PC_Guy ) and Barbara, an IT manager who’s considering deploying Virtual Server in her enterprise. I thought you all might be interested in the questions and answers, so here are my notes: Barbara: What’s the...

on 31 Dec 2004
Blog Post: Domain in a box

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This article tells you how to set up a self-contained domain on a single computer under Virtual Server. Ed Reed, a virtualization developer here at Microsoft helped me out with it. Thanks Ed! Although you can set up a production domain controller on Virtual Server with lots of caveats (see Notes), the...

on 8 Dec 2004