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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 reaches RTM milestone

grantkd — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:39:00 GMT

Today, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (SCVMM08 R2), with general availability through volume licensing starting on Oct. 1.

One key additional feature of SCVMM08 R2 is the ability to manage VMs running on VMware vSphere 4.0. Overall, early adopter customers like Lionbridge Technologies, Continental Airlines, Indiana University Auxiliary IT, MaximumASP and Sporton have been really pleased with their experience running SCVMM 2008 R2 and find it especially complimentary when deployed alongside Windows Hyper-V 2.0.

For more information about today’s news, please check out RakeshM’s VM Management blog .

Microsoft, Red Hat to Offer Joint Technical Support

mdingle — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Microsoft and Red Hat announced this morning that they have signed agreements to test and validate their server operating systems running on one another's hypervisors. In short, this means that customers with valid support agreements will be able to run validated configurations and receive joint technical support for running Windows Server on Red Hat Enterprise virtualization, and for running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Hyper-V Server 2008.

To learn more about this announcement, join the Red Hat webcast with Mike Neil, which will be broadcast live at 11 a.m. ET on February 16, 2009. The webcast will also be available for replay. To join, please sign up here.

Additional information can be found on the press release, Mike Neil's blog entry and Port25.

Other resources:

Windows Server Virtualization Validation Program Web site

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and Virtualization Services, Certifications and Training Offerings Now Available

grantkd — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:15:00 GMT

Today Microsoft announced the final release and availability of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, a new bare metal hypervisor-based server virtualization product. Available as a no-cost Web download at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-VServer later today, Hyper-V Server 2008 provides a simplified, reliable and optimized virtualization solution for customers to consolidate Windows or Linux workloads onto a single physical server or to run client operating systems and applications in server-based virtual machines in the data center.

In addition, customers such as Del Monte Foods and Saxo Bank are sharing their early success with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Microsoft also announced a new offering of specialized assessment and implementation services available from the Microsoft Services organization that helps customers use server virtualization, and separate new training and certifications from Microsoft Learning for Microsoft Certified IT Professionals.

All of today’s announcements are on the heels of the “Get Virtual Now” launch event last month. For more information, please visit the press release, Windows Virtualization Blog, Microsoft Learning Community Blog and Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Team Blog.