Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enteprise is FREE...Now, Get Some Training!
I've sent this out to several folks that wanted to learn more about VS. Here are a few resources I've compiled - including a link to some great webcasts that one of my co-workers put together showing how VS Host Based Clustering works. Yes, you can actually fail over VM's from one server to another with VS 2005 R2...and guess what - you don't have pay any more for it...
MS.com VS training:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/techinfo/events/default.mspx
John has a great blog with a ton of VS resources:
http://blogs.technet.com/jhoward/search.aspx?q=virtual&p=1
Host Clustering Webcasts I talked about:
http://blogs.technet.com/jhoward/archive/2005/12/02/415459.aspx
Free download of VS 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6dba2278-b022-4f56-af96-7b95975db13b&DisplayLang=en
Details on the licensing announcements:
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/10/10/479186.aspx
Virtualization Brief:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/9/68964284-864d-4a6d-aed9-f2c1f8f23e14/virtualization_brief.doc