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Big Windows Server 2008 and Virtualization Announcements

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 9:02 AM by davidzi
At TechEd in Barcelona today, we made several major announcements . It's important to look at the details but to really see the scope and impact you need to step back a bit and look at the big picture these announcements describe. In my view there are Read More...
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Hypervisor Functional Specification

Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 5:00 PM by davidzi
If you really want to go deep on Windows Server Virtualization, check out our announcement of the publication of the Hypercall API under the Open Specification Promise . Here is the download: Hypervisor Functional Specification Read More...
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Very Interesting Virtualization Video

Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 5:14 PM by davidzi
Eric Traut, a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and one of the key architects behind our kernel and virtualization teams gave a great presentation at the University of Illinois on our virtualization architecture. Eric gave a very detailed description Read More...
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Want to learn about Microsoft's virtualization solutions?

Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:47 PM by davidzi
Below is a link to a great virtualization webcast. I met Edwin and Jeff at TechReady this year, both good guys. Jeff is a PM on Windows Server Virtualization and Edwin is an EM with the Virtual Machine Manager team. Abstract: Virtualization is a high-priority Read More...
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Installing the Windows Server Virtualization Preview (Viridian)

Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:27 AM by davidzi
As many have heard by now, a preview version of Windows Server Virtualization has shipped on the CD with Windows Server 2008 RC0! I was going to write up a post detailing the prerequisites, installation process, etc. but some others have already done Read More...
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Virtual Server Cookbooks

Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:22 AM by davidzi
The links below are to a series of cookbooks for Virtual Server by Microsoft and Partners that are detailed how-to guides for a series of topics such as management, high availability, disaster recovery, etc. Name Description Microsoft® Virtual Server Read More...
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Major Virtualization Announcements!

Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:57 PM by davidzi
Wow, some big news over on the Windows Virtualization Team Blog ! SCVMM is released to manufacturing. The pricing model is very reasonable and is priced per physical host with management of an unlimited number of VMs. There is a midmarket solution available Read More...
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Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Upgrade Tip

Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 7:37 AM by davidzi
Robert Larson has a good post on an issue that is cropping up quite a bit for folks upgrading to Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 who don't read the fine print of the release note :) The gist of it is make sure you shut down (not save state, actually shut down) Read More...
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What is SoftGrid Application Virtualization?

Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 7:37 AM by davidzi
It is very cool application virtualization technology. Check out this post for details: http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2007/08/02/inside-the-grid-part-1.aspx This is the first in what will be a series of posts from the team so be sure to subscribe Read More...
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TechReady Day 3 and 4: Windows Server 2008

Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 10:21 PM by davidzi
My schedule on day 3 and 4 was very heavy on sessions dealing with virtualization and various Windows Server 2008 topics. I mentioned it in my previous post but there is a tremendous amount of integration and collaboration between the virtualization teams Read More...
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TechReady Day 2: BillG and Virtualization

Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:09 AM by davidzi
Day 2 at TechReady brought a keynote by Bill Gates and another Q&A session afterwards. The keynote was pretty interesting, it was a fairly typical BillG presentation with some good demos. He highlighted six major areas Microsoft is focusing on over Read More...
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New Blog and a Post About Routing Between Virtual Networks

Posted Sunday, July 01, 2007 4:58 PM by davidzi
Robert Larson, a fellow Microsoft Consulting Services colleague and co-author of the upcoming Virtual Server 2005 R2 Resource Kit has started a new blog . One of his posts deals with the various options available to provide network connectivity and routing Read More...
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VMRCPlus - A better way to manage Virtual Machines!

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 6:37 PM by davidzi
As you can imagine, a company full of great developers such as Microsoft has a bunch of folks that crank out a lot of tools and utilities in their "spare" time. One of those that has been extremely popular internally is VMRCPlus, an alternate interface Read More...
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New SoftGrid Page on Microsoft.com

Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:32 PM by davidzi
There is some new SoftGrid content on Microsoft.com to check out. Softgrid is part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack and is highly complimentary to SMS and Terminal Services. For those not familliar with SoftGrid, here is the marketing definition: Read More...
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Thoughts on the Windows Server Virtualization Announcement

Posted Sunday, May 13, 2007 4:29 PM by davidzi
By now most readers of this blog will have heard that some of the planned Windows Server Virtualization (Viridian) features have been deferred. The details were posted here . Dan Kusnetzky over on ZDnet has a blog post with good analysis of the options. Read More...
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