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Move over Chandler – there’s a new bing in town…

Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:14 PM by mattmcspirit
Today is a very big day for Microsoft.  Unfortunately, it’s not virtualisation related, but Search & Online related.  The online advertising and search space is, in many ways, similar to virtualisation.  It’s dominated by a very big Read More...
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TechNet UK Virtual Conference – 19th June 2009

Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:47 PM by mattmcspirit
We’re pleased to announce the launch of the very first TechNet Virtual Conference taking place on 19 June 2009. You told us that time and budget pressures make attending in person events difficult – so to help both you and the environment we decided to Read More...
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VirtualboyTV.com: Hyper-V R2: USB over Network with Fabulatech

Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:33 PM by mattmcspirit
As virtualisation becomes more and more popular, one of the common questions I’m being asked is around USB and getting USB devices into the virtual machines.  This isn’t such a problem in the Desktop Virtualisation space – most technologies now allow Read More...
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VirtualboyTV.com: Hyper-V R2: Failover & Live Migration

Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 3:09 PM by mattmcspirit
On to the final part of the mini-series on clustering, and we round off with the most exciting bit – seeing our creation come to life! In this video, I perform a number of Live Migrations, for the different VM types (VHD, Pass Through Disk and CSV), including Read More...
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VirtualboyTV.com: Hyper-V R2: Introducing Cluster Shared Volumes

Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 2:51 PM by mattmcspirit
The 3rd video in this cluster-tastic mini-series focuses on introducing a completely ‘new-for-R2’ technology called Cluster Shared Volumes.  This new technology brings 2 major benefits.  The first, is it allows you to drop multiple VMs per LUN, Read More...
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VirtualboyTV.com: Hyper-V R2: Making Highly Available VMs

Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 2:37 PM by mattmcspirit
Watched the first R2 clustering video yet ?  It’s a little bit of a pre-req for this one, but, if you haven’t seen it, you should still be able to take value from part 2 in this mini series on clustering in Hyper-V R2.  In this video, we start Read More...
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VirtualboyTV.com: Hyper-V R2: Building a Hyper-V R2 Cluster

Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 1:57 PM by mattmcspirit
OK, now the fun starts!  The previous 2 ‘R2’ videos ( Initial Installation & Configuration , and Dynamic Storage ) gently introduced you to some of the new capabilities in Hyper-V R2, but now we’re going to step it up a notch, and start looking Read More...
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Where do these people get their information from???

Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:06 PM by mattmcspirit
“I was happily ploughing through Planet V12n , trying to keep up with all the goings on in the virtualisation space (Drinking from the fire hose!) when I stumbled on this: All 3 of these stories I know about, individually, but I thought it would be interesting Read More...
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SQL Guest Clustering Now Supported in a Virtual Environment

Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 4:58 PM by mattmcspirit
SQL Server, both 2005, and 2008, have both been supported in virtual environments, Microsoft or otherwise, for some time now. This means that, providing you followed the specific guidelines for SQL and virtualisation, you could happily virtualise SQL, Read More...
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VirtualboyTV.com: Hyper-V R2: Dynamic Storage

Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 4:50 PM by mattmcspirit
The second in the R2 video wave, focuses on a new capability in R2, namely, Dynamic Storage.  This is a capability which allows an administrator to add or remove a virtual hard disk (VHD) or pass through disk, to a running virtual machine, without Read More...
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VirtualboyTV.com: Hyper-V R2: Initial Installation and Configuration

Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:04 PM by mattmcspirit
This is the first of my Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V videos, with a number more currently in the cutting room!   This first video, focuses on the installation, and initial configuration of Hyper-V as part of Windows Server 2008 R2.  Once I’ve Read More...
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Improved CPU Capabilities in Hyper-V R2

Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:05 PM by mattmcspirit
Hot on the heels of my post a couple of days back, about Core Parking , I’d like to add to that, some information around some of the other CPU-related enhancements that are coming in the R2 wave. The first, is the increase in the number of logical cores Read More...
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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 – now supported Virtualised

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 5:35 PM by mattmcspirit
Well, kind of. The newly released “ Running Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in a Virtualized Topology ” whitepaper goes through what is, and what isn’t supported, along with recommendations, best practices, test cases and so on.  In Read More...
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I’m twittering. Kind of.

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:51 PM by mattmcspirit
I didn’t think I’d give in, but finally, I’ve decided to embrace twitter.  Whilst I can appreciate it’s value, especially in today’s IT-fuelled world, where information is King, and people are desperate for the answers to the questions they haven’t Read More...
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TechEd 2009 Keynote and SCVMM 2008 R2 Release Candidate Info

Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:16 PM by mattmcspirit
If you get some spare time today, or over the next few days, and you want to see some pretty cool demos, then I’d encourage you to take a look at the TechEd Keynote, which was originally delivered on Monday of this week.  In the Keynote, Bill Veghte, Read More...
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MMS2009: App-V for Servers

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 5:43 PM by mattmcspirit
Application Virtualisation (App-V) has been around a fair while now.  It started as SoftGrid, and was owned by Softricity, which was then acquired by Microsoft, and became App-V, with the current release being 4.5.  Version 4.6, which brings Read More...
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VirtualboyTV.com: Hyper-V: Understanding Networking

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 4:10 PM by mattmcspirit
Would you like to learn more about Hyper-V networking?  Do you know your Private’s from your External’s? (Cue dodgy jokes)  Do you know your vLANs from your Teams?  Well, if not, this could be the video for you.  The video, through Read More...
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Seeing Core Parking in action

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 11:23 AM by mattmcspirit
One of the new capabilities of Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows 7, is Core Parking. As we move closer to the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, and combine this with the innovation in CPU technologies that Intel and AMD are producing, it’s clear that Read More...
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Got a spare few minutes? I’ve got a game for you…

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:14 AM by mattmcspirit
Just a bit of fun really, but if you enjoy retro style games (complete with retro music) that you can spin up in the browser, then this could be the game for you.  I’ve just had a quick go at it, and it’s actually quite funny! Head on over to ServerQuest Read More...
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I go away for 1 week – what’s changed?

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:34 AM by mattmcspirit
I hinted in one of my final posts before holiday , that there would be some big announcements taking place in and around the virtualisation space.  Well, firstly, Windows 7 Release Candidate launched, and there is a tonne of information about that, Read More...
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Announcing the Microsoft Virtualisation Solutions Competency

Posted Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:19 PM by mattmcspirit
It’s been a long time coming, (and it’s still not quite here), but the details have finally been confirmed.  The Microsoft Partner Virtualisation Competency assures that you, as a Microsoft Partner, have the skills to build your virtualisation practice Read More...
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