Virtual Machine Management

Hyper-V RC1 is readily available. You can find more details here: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/05/20/hyper-v-rc1-release-available-on-microsoft-download-center.aspx . The link to the Microsoft Download Center is http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3ed582f0-f844-40ba-b692-230845af1149&displaylang=en Read More...

A lot of you have been experiencing issues when you upgrade Hyper-V to RC1. I would like to reiterate that the VMM team knows about this and we apologize for the inconvenience. See this thread on technet forums for more details. http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3373834&SiteID=1 Read More...

Last week I mentioned I was going to talk about how to enable PRO with VMM. PRO stands for Physical Resource Optimization. If you followed my steps from last week, your Operations Manager and VMM servers are configured to work together to provide monitoring Read More...

VMM teams up with OpsMgr to provide a comprehensive end-to-end services management through monitoring the health and performance of workloads all the way down to the application level. VMM and PRO (a feature of VMM that allows you to extend the services Read More...

A post on the VMM newsgroup today prompted me to explain the different ways that VMs can be migrated when using VMM 2008. From a VMM perspective, we have a few ways that we allow you to move a VM from one host to another. I listed them below in no particular Read More...