Isolation and State Separation are two very important concepts in the world of application virtualization, but we throw those terms around a lot without really explaining what we mean by them. I’m going to attempt to explain what those concepts mean to ...read more

On March 22nd at MMS 2011 this year, we announced the Beta for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 . Our customers are telling us it is about the “Service”. They want to better manage their infrastructure while providing more levels of self-service ...read more

Hi Folks - here's a re-post of Ed Anderson's piece which went out on the virtualization blog today. I thought it was a good read for System Center blog as well. Enjoy. In speaking with folks interested in deploying virtualization, I tend to hear two ...read more

@   Adam (Bomb) of TechNet Edge made some GREAT Videos during MMS, Check them Out: The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) and TechNet Edge have a great relationship – their audience is a dedicated, specialized IT Pro audience, and Edge has been on ...read more

Easy as pie. Like taking candy from a baby. A walk in the park. Like shooting fish in a barrel. You hear those phrases all the time. But how often do you hear them applied to installing server applications in a datacenter? Sure, maybe you have some ...read more

Virtualization Nation, We’re having a great week at a sold-out MMS 2011 in Las Vegas! To say it’s a busy week would be a huge understatement. Honestly, there’s so much happening, I can’t blog about all these topics and begin ...read more

Lets say you create virtual machine protection and current conditions allow “ Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\< VM>” or in short; ‘ online’ protection. Then you change the VM configuration and introduce one of the conditions that prohibit ...read more

With special thanks to Fahd Kamal for the backgrounder content. Imagine that you are experimenting with DPM 2010. You protect some data, and then you remove that protection group. Then, showing DPM to one of your friends, you protect the data again ...read more

So, you got your copy of System Center Essentials 2010 installed, you’ve run through your initial configuration, and now want to try out this virtualization thing. This post will guide you through creating and configuring your first virtual machine, and ...read more

As you may know, with the Service Pack 1 release of SCMDM we introduced support for virtualization of our server roles. This allows you to run the Windows Server 2003 x64 guest OS in a Hyper-V environment. We wanted to clarify that this applies to the ...read more