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Microsoft and Red Hat Complete Cooperative Technical Support
Finally we have a formal announcement! http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/10/07/microsoft-and-red-hat-complete-cooperative-technical-support.aspx Read More...
Hyper-V Performance Comparison of Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 on Intel Platforms
Interesting performance comparison report! Principled Technologies tested Harpertown and Nehalem servers running various Windows Server operating systems to show the benefits of processer and of operating system improvements on simulated customer workloads.  Read More...
Changes to System Center Management Suite Enterprise licensing
Since the 1st of July the Server Management Suite Licensing has changes. The biggest changes are that we have added a Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD). The Server Management Suite Datacenter provides rights to manage an unlimited number of operating Read More...
Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community
  REDMOND, Wash., July 20, 2009 — Today, in a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community Read More...
Server Virtualization Validation Program: Support policy wizard
Our colleague Matt McSpirit wrote an article about the SVVP support policy wizard. http://blogs.technet.com/mattmcspirit/archive/2009/07/03/the-svvp-wizard.aspx The SVV Support policy wizard can be found here . The support policy wizard can be used to Read More...
Hyper-V: Multi processor virtual machines and physical processor utilization/over subscription
Lately we’ve had quite a few questions regarding virtual processor assignment, processor over subscription and host processor utilization. And since systems with 8 physical cores or more are starting to become more common I thought I’d provide some additional Read More...
Announcing: Virtualization Solutions Competency
Great news! In the next coming months the new Virtualization Solutions Competency will be added to the competencies available under the Microsoft Partner Program. The Virtualization Solutions competency is launching later in 2009. Attaining this competency Read More...
Restore virtual machine to alternate Hyper-V host using System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 with Service Pack 1
Ruud Baars, one of our colleagues and System Center Data Protection Manager subject matter experts at Microsoft Services wrote several scripts to overcome a current limitation of System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 with Service Pack 1. An abstract Read More...
NIC teaming for Hyper-V
We get a lot of questions about NIC teaming support in Windows Server 2008 so that this can be used to create fault tolerant virtual switches within Hyper-V. It is absolutely possible to use NIC teaming with Hyper-V, however this support must be provided Read More...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be supported on Hyper-V
Just a quick post to share the good news! See: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/02/15/Microsoft-and-Red-Hat-Joint-Technical-Support.aspx Read More...
Hyper-V and SCVMM 2008: Mounting ISO’s from a network share
We get a lot of questions on why you cannot mount an ISO from a network share in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Well.. you CAN mount an ISO but it requires some additional configuration. You need to take the following steps: 1. Open Active Read More...
SCVMM 2008 MP for SCOM 2007 has finally been released
The “System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007” has finally been released. (Including reports!) Download it from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d6d5cddd-4ec8-4e3c-8ab1-102ec99c257f&displaylang=e Read More...
Project Virtual Reality Check
Our partners Log•in Consultants and PQR finalized a project called “Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC)” and published their findings on http://www.virtualrealitycheck.net/ . Their findings are “interesting” to say the least! The project: Do you wonder Read More...
Virtualization demo videos
Matthijs and I created several demo videos that we want to share with you. We created these videos for the Dutch virtualization launch ( VirtualQuest ). These videos are in Dutch. A selection from the list: Configuring Server Core Installing the Hyper-V Read More...
17th of December: VIRTUALquest: the online challenge
Finally we’ll have our own Dutch (launch)event around virtualization. Great content, live Q&A and a chance to win fantastic prices in the online challenge. Secure your (virtual)seat at: http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/evenementen/technetmsdn/technet_virtualisatie_launch.asp Read More...
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