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Friday, January 16, 2009 3:02 PM

Building my Demo Laptop (Part 3)

In this post I’ll talk you through how I have created a Hyper-V Failover Cluster on my single laptop. To build a Failover Cluster you need a SAN.  I use the Microsoft iSCSI target software that ships with Windows Storage Server.  Being a Microsoft
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:11 AM

Hyper-V on a Laptop

This post is an introduction to how I have configured my demo laptop.  I can comfortably run eleven VMs on the one laptop, including a two node Hyper-V cluster, App-V and the four main System Center products (Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:58 PM

What are you doing on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th April?

Welcome to the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference 2008 Co-organised with the Irish Microsoft Technology User Group and First Port Jobs, it's an event by the Irish technology community for the Irish technology community. The registration fee (€189)
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Monday, March 03, 2008 11:38 AM

Server Virtualisation - Live Migration vs. Quick Migration.

I'd really like to get to the bottom of this. In the event of a hardware failure , both VMware and Microsoft's Server Virtualisation solutions are equal - the guest machines will be restarted on another physical node. In the event of some planned downtime
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Friday, February 29, 2008 9:48 AM

It's good to talk..

Thanks for your comments on my last post. I've commented myself, but just in case you aren't reading the comments - here's my reply to Kim: So http://itcomparison.com/Virtualization/MShypervvsvi35/HyperVvsvmware35esx.htm is a great comparison of a production
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:49 PM

Comparing Microsoft and VMware Virtualisation

I was just reading Yankee Group's report - " Virtualization Price War: VMware's Little Big Horn? ", and just had to share this with you (I think it speaks for itself): If you haven't got access to the report (which we didn't pay for - before
Posted by daven | 31 Comments
Thursday, December 13, 2007 7:03 PM

Hyper-V beta bits now available

Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate zero (RC0) and Release Candidate 1 (RC1) came with Windows Server Virtualisation (and Hyper-V) in them as a Customer Technology Preview (CTP). We've just released a build of Windows Server RC1 with the Beta of Hyper-V
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Monday, December 10, 2007 4:49 PM

Sorry - couldn't resist it..

http://www.virtualization.info/2007/12/patch-tuesday-for-vmware.html Dave
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:35 PM

Windows Server Virtualisation Announcement

Microsoft has just announced that we are extending the Open Specification Promise (OSP) to the hypercall API within Windows Server Virtualisation. The hypercall API enables partners to develop solutions with Windows Server virtualisation allowing customers
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Monday, October 15, 2007 11:25 AM

Last Friday's post (VMware ESX Server 3i)

Looks like I've upset a few people. Sorry, that wasn't my intention. I get to talk to a lot of people about a lot of stuff. Virtualisation is one of them, and all I ever hear is VMware this and VMware that (and next to no one knows what Microsoft currently
Posted by daven | 5 Comments
Friday, October 12, 2007 2:25 PM

VMware ESX Server 3i

I was reading this article about the up-and-coming ESX Server 3i from VMware. It calls out a bunch on "new features" that we have either been doing for ages, or have announced that we will have in Windows Server Virtualisation (WSV), when we ship Windows
Posted by daven | 33 Comments
Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:27 AM

Last Friday's Virtualisation talk

Last Friday I spoke at an event run by MJ Flood (a local partner). The format was something new to me (and something that I really enjoyed). There was around fifty of us in the room and we all got to listen to the main presentation (PowerPoint slides
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Friday, September 14, 2007 4:00 PM

Windows Server Virtualisation (Public Technology Preview).

I've been talking about and showing you Windows Server Virtualisation (WSV) for a good while now (it's our new Hypervisor based Virtualisation solution coming out with Windows Server 2008). Well, the cat's out of the bag now - you'll all be ably to 'play'
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:17 PM

One Place to go for everything Virtual

Microsoft's new Virtualisation website has just gone live. The content is nothing new - but having it all in one place is pretty neat. This is a one-stop-shop for everything virtual - downloads, white papers, pointers to blogs and events. Covering all
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:40 AM

Yet More Virtualisation Resources..

As promised, here's some more useful resources about Virtualisation: The Virtual Server Community site looks like it's becoming 'the place to go' for Virtualisation info. The MSPress Virtual Server 2005 Resource Kit isn't out yet (not until the 22nd August),
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