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Frugal Fridays Podcast: Microsoft Technical PM, Kenon Owens

mdingle — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:52:00 GMT

Checkout this week's installment of the Frugal Friday's Tech Show podcast with Jason Perlow and Ken Hess featuring Kenon Owens, Technical Product Manager on the Integrated Virtualization Team at Microsoft. Click here and learn about System Center Virtual Machine Manager R2 now.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 beta now available

grantkd — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:24:00 GMT

Today, Microsoft announced the first beta release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (SCVMM R2). With feedback from our customers, Microsoft has made a number of new feature enhancements in R2 that support using a Windows platform including:

o Support for Live Migration: With Windows 2008 R2 adding support for Live migration, it’s now added as a new migration option in VMM R2

o Multiple VMs per LUN: VMM R2 allows multiple VMs to be placed on the same LUN if CSV is enabled on the cluster.

o SAN related enhancements: SAN migration in and out of clusters & allows Multiple LUNs per single iSCSI target

o Network related enhancements including:

§ Network Optimization

§ Some workloads such as Network load balancers need to be able to spoof MACs: There’s a new setting that allows admin to enable/Disable MAC spoofing on a per VM basis

§ Ability to reuse port groups defined in VMWare VirtualCenter

SCVMM 2008 R2 is available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers today via the TechNetand MSDN download site. You can read more about the beta release of SCVMM 2008 R2 on the Systems Center blogor checkout details on the VMM 2008 R2 beta in a post by Rakesh Malhotra .

Please go download the beta of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 today from the Microsoft Connect site and let Microsoft know what you think.

Get Virtual Now

grantkd — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:15:00 GMT

Today at 9 AM PDT, Bob Kelly will take the stage at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, officially kicking off Microsoft’s five-month long worldwide event series to “‘Get Virtual Now.”

Product milestones will be announced through two live webcast keynotes, available for viewing at the Microsoft Virtual Press Room.

· Bob Kelly- 9:00-10:00 AM PDT

· Bob Muglia and Kevin Turner- 12:30-2:00 PM PDT

News at today’s event:

· Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 will be released within 30 days and be available at no cost via the Web.

· System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 will be released within 30 days.

· Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, released last week, will be included as part of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2, which is due for general availability in the coming weeks.

· Microsoft demonstrated for the first time a live migration feature of Windows Server 2008 R2.

Partner News:

In separate news releases today, visit the Microsoft Virtual Press Room to learn about announcements from the following partners.

· AMD

· Compellent Technologies, Inc.

· HP

· NetApp

· Sun Microsystems

For more information, please visit the Windows Virtualization Team Blog.

Microsoft’s investment in Cross-Platform and Interoperability

grantkd — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:26:00 GMT

Today at MMS 2008 in Las Vegas, Microsoft and its Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business, Bob Muglia outlined the next phase in the company’s strategy to enable dynamic IT organizations. (Watch the Day 1 keynote webcast). As part of this strategy, Muglia announced technology innovations that are designed to expand Microsoft’s virtualization capabilities and introduced its use of open source technologies and industry standards to broaden its ability to deliver automated management of heterogeneous IT environments.

Muglia’s keynote address this morning also detailed the availability of two public beta products: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (formerly referred to as code name “Virtual Machine Manager vNext”).

For the most current information about Microsoft’s activities at MMS, including event news, progress reports and videos from Microsoft and other industry experts, please check out http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mgmtsummit/events.mspx.

More information on these announcements and the event can be found here:

MMS 2008 event site - https://www1.mms-2008.com/public/home.aspx

Nexus SC: System Center Team Blog - http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2008/04/29/operations-manager-2007-goes-cross-platform.aspx

Live updates from the event - http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/pages/live-from-las-vegas.aspx

Windows Virtualization Team Blog - http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/04/29/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2008-beta-has-arrived.aspx