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Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:01 PM

Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) take 2.

Various people noticed that VMware were not on the list of companies participating in the SVVP. Any player in virtualizing Windows workloads needs to be on the program: don't participate and your customers don't get properly supported. There is no valid
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:33 PM

Virtualization: Licensing and support changes

I was briefed a few days ago about changes to licensing to make life easier for people doing virtualization.  I think our server applications have done a good job of adapting their licences for a world where they run in virtualized machine. That's
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:26 AM

It's rude to laugh at other people's misfortunes - even VMware's

That was one of my mother's regular sayings when I was young. OK Not the bit about VMware. So I didn't laugh when I saw a thread on VMware's community forum entitled BIG bug in ESX 3.5 Update 2 - If you're using 3.5u2 read this now! - A general system
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Friday, August 08, 2008 11:35 PM

Interesting Citrix event, London, September

Chatting to my opposite number at Citrix today I found that they have a Virtualization event coming up. Entitled Unlock the Power of Virtualisation it's taking place at Old-County Hall in London on 17th September, and the details are registration link
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:57 PM

Microsoft Virtualization User Group

I think I can claim a first for the UK, we have a Microsoft Virtualization User Group.   I'll wait and see if anyone from another Microsoft subsidiary corrects me and says their has been running for years. When we recording our Podcast , Jonathan
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:50 PM

Looks like September for SCVMM

The most senior Microsoft person ever to tell me off for something did so for my repeating of something which was circulating at IT-Forum last year - that there was a plan to sync up the release of the new version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:59 AM

PowerShell and checking management rights.

Something which has come up more than once with the builds I of my PowerShell Hyper-V library has been that by default PowerShell doesn't ask Windows to elevate it's privileges - which, for example, the Microsoft Management Console does. By default it
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Monday, July 21, 2008 12:01 AM

Scaling Hyper-v.

A couple of Stories have been doing the rounds on our internal Virtualization discussions. One was headed "HOLY COW HYPER-V VIRTUALIZING MICROSOFT.COM!!!!!!" (and before anyone wonders if this is breaking something internal to the world, it's
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Monday, June 30, 2008 11:53 PM

The Windows Server Virtualization Validation Programme

I've mentioned this program a couple of times, and now on the Windows Server Catalog site we have a page which shows which vendors are testing their Virtualization products so they are qualified as just another "machine" on which Windows runs...
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Monday, June 30, 2008 11:40 PM

Finding Hyper-V servers in your domain

One of the advantages of having Virtualization integrated with Windows is that the Hyper-V (and in fact Virtual Server 2005) registers itself in active directory so you can discover your servers easily - quite useful if servers start popping up like mushrooms. 
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Friday, June 27, 2008 2:40 PM

Hyper-V. Of course it *had* to be yesterday

If you're in the UK there's still time (just) to get last week's Money programme about Bill Gates and the end of an era from www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer . I was away when it was broadcast and nearly forgot. I blogged Bill's announcement when he made it, and
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:56 PM

What operating systems are supported on Hyper-V ?

I've explained before that Supported means "We are in a position to get a fix if a fault is found". Lots and Lots of operating systems are compatible with Hyper-V. Supported means we underwrite the OS with a fix guarantee. Although there is
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:26 PM

Are people already ganging up on VMware ?

I think with Hyper-V we're going to please an awful lot of people, but not everybody . There are some people who will need features Hyper-V doesn't have - indeed the future of VMware depends on the fact.I don't want to make the mistake of underestimating
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:25 PM

Hyper-V released !

Over the last few days there have been rumours of the imminent release of Hyper-V, and now the news is officially on PressPass . In the next few minutes the following links will go live. Windows Server 2008 x64 Hyper-V Parent Partition This package is
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:43 PM

Hyper-V PowerShell library - now on Codeplex

I've decided to go ahead and post the PowerShell library I have been working on to Codeplex . I wanted to explain various bits of it here before pulling it all together, but that is taking more time than I wanted. I've provided early copies to a few people
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