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Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:20 AM

Virtualization Gets 1st Class TechNet Citizenship

Virtualization is all growed up, TechCenter of its own and everthang. Check out the new Virtualization TechCenter at: http://technet.microsoft.com/virtualization .
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Monday, November 12, 2007 8:32 PM

Virtualization: And Oracle Makes Three

Is it just me, or is it getting crowded in here? According to this story : "Customers can download "Oracle VM" for free starting on Wednesday , the company said. Oracle will sell service contracts for the product ranging from $499 to $999 per year." According
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:57 AM

VMM: How to Upgrade from Beta 2

You can find the full instructions in the upgrade guide, and the upgrade.exe on the Microsoft Connect site (Windows Live ID required) at: https://connect.microsoft.com/vmm/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=8384 Before you upgrade, you must: 1.
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:47 AM

VMM: Upgrading from Beta 2

Now that VMM has RTMd, if you are a Beta 2 user, you may have some questions about the upgrade to RTM, assuming you want to retain your data? If you do not want to retain your data, uninstall the Beta 2 version and perform a clean installation of the
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:33 AM

Virtualization Nation: VMM Comes to the Mid-Market

Help is on the way for IT Pros that manage IT environments with fewer thatn enterprise numbers of machines. Today it was announced that: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Workgroup Edition will be available in January 2008 , targeted at the Mid-market
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:25 AM

Virtualization Nation: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About P2V But Were Afraid to Ask

Q: Does SCVMM replace VSMT? A: Pretty much yes. VSMT still works, but is not going to get an update. Now is a good time to switch to SCVMM :-) Q: Is P2V in SCVMM "fire and forget"? A: Most Beta customers found that the convert-physical-server wizard yielded
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:15 AM

Virtualization Nation: How to V2V

Q: Does SCVMM convert VMware virtual machines (V2V)? A: Yes. You must put the following files from the source VMware virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Manager library: A .vmx file, which is a VMware virtual machine configuration file. A .vmx file
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:29 AM

Virtualization Nation: How to P2V

You can find the troubleshooting topics for P2V here. The wizard for P2V is called the "Convert physical server" wizard. In the Administrator Console click the "Convert physical server" action. Here's the "How to Convert a Physical Server to a Virtual
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:08 PM

Virtualization Nation: Microsoft IT is Citizen ID-01

Microsoft IT's Devin Murray is interviewed here on the use of VMM inside Microsoft during the beta. Microsoft IT runs the compute utliity on more than 17,000 servers that provide computing power to 550 buildings across 98 countries from the data center.
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Friday, June 15, 2007 10:12 AM

Virtual Machine Manager: How to Copy Files from VM to Host or VM to VM

A reader sent me an e-mail asking how to copy/paste between VMs. It depends on how much material you are trying to copy/paste. Seems like most people connect the VM to a virtual network that has external access and establish a network mapping. Then copy
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:36 PM

Microsoft Virtualization Strategy

Mike Neil's blog post on the Microsoft Virtualization Strategy is an important read if you are in this space. If you think you are not in this space, you will be soon. Sooner than you think. He identifies 5 "things" that make up the strategy: 1) platform
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Friday, October 27, 2006 2:21 PM

Improve Virtual Server Networking

Check out the Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (KB912222) for ways to improve the networking performance of certain workloads and configurations in your virtual server environment. Caveats: 1) you must have supported HW - the KB states "This feature
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Monday, August 21, 2006 9:53 AM

What's the Difference Between Virtual Server and Windows Server Virtualization?

System Center Virtual Machine Manager is the product I am working on. It is a management application for IT Pros to manage the explosion of virtual machines we see coming. It's currently in Beta, and you can sign up for it using these directions . One
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