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Announcing the availability of the updated Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Virtualization and System Center: Microsoft has a comprehensive portfolio of technologies when it comes to Virtualization ranging from Presentation Virtualization with Remote Desktop Services to Server Virtualization using Hyper-V with many more in between as below. · Server Hardware Read More...
Posted 24 September 09 03:03 by vtango | 0 Comments
Filed under Virtual PC, Virtual Server, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, Management, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Application Virtualization, Microsoft Application Virtualization, System Center, virtualization management, Virtual Desktop Architecture, VDI, integrated virtualization, VMM 2008, Virtuallization Solution Accelerators, Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Tool, Windows Server 2008, Live Migration, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Strong end to end management required for Virtualization to be successful (VMworld day 2): I am pleased that it is being acknowledged by VMware (evidenced by their keynote announcements yesterday on the vCenter additions) that for a strong virtualization platform a complete end-to-end solution is required. We agree completely!! We at Microsoft Read More...
Posted 02 September 09 02:39 by vtango | 1 Comments
Filed under Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, Management, Application Virtualization, System Center, cross-platform management, Management tools, integrated virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Microsoft’s new VDI licensing: VDI Suites: Hi, my name is Manlio Vecchiet, and I am a director of product management on the Windows Server marketing team. I'm in New Orleans right now attending the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) , and wanted to update you on new licenses we’ll offer Read More...
Posted 13 July 09 10:48 by porourke | 15 Comments
Filed under Hyper-V, Management, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, VMWare, Application Virtualization, Microsoft Application Virtualization, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, virtualization management, Virtual Desktop Architecture, VDI, Citrix, Windows Server 2008, Live Migration, events
Microsoft at VMworld Europe 2009: VMworld Europe's tagline this year is "virtually anything is possible". Kinda reminds me of Mike's blog post on Monday about Red Hat. And for many IT pros, "virtually anything is possible" might apply to the fact that Microsoft is exhibiting at, and sponsoring, VMworld Europe for the second year in a row. Tres bien, as they say in Cannes. So if you're one of the 3,000 paid attendees expected at VMworld Europe 2009, below's a sneak peak at what you'll find inside booth #133. If you're not attending, I'm going to attempt to post some pix ... maybe video if I'm lucky ... from the booth so you can see the action. No doubt there will be plenty of other blogs coming from VMworld Europe. You can see most of them at the Virt blog aggregator. So what am I expecting to see in Cannes? Outside of the Microsoft booth, I'd expect to see early versions of client hypervisors, interop announcements, new product packaging, cloud computing announcements, and likely an update about VMsafe. Should be a busy week. Read More...
Posted 21 February 09 06:30 by porourke | 4 Comments
Filed under Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, Management, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, ESX, VMWare, Application Virtualization, Microsoft Application Virtualization, System Center, Interop, virtualization management, VDI, Citrix, Management tools, XenServer, Windows Server 2008, Cloud Computing, Visual Studio, Live Migration, Red Hat, XenApp
The Virtualization Essentials from Citrix: Bonjour from Cannes. This is just a quick post about Citrix making public the Essentials for Hyper-V news. It's been talked about already by Alessandro and others. Read More...
Posted 20 February 09 05:10 by porourke | 0 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, Management, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, ESX, SoftGrid, Application Virtualization, Microsoft Application Virtualization, System Center, virtualization management, Citrix, Management tools, integrated virtualization, VMM 2008, Windows Server 2008
Microsoft and Red Hat Cooperative Technical Support: Hi, I’m Mike Neil, general manager of virtualization at Microsoft. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged here, but today’s post is worth a read. Ever since we released Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Terminal Services, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Microsoft App-V 4.5 last year, customers and partners have been getting huge value from server consolidation projects, have been able to increase business continuity at much lower costs than with VMware, and have decreased the time and cost required to deliver applications to end users. And while doing this, they’ve been able to use a familiar set of system management tools for both their virtualized and non-virtualized systems and applications across the datacenter and desktops. In fact, Chris from Kroll Factual Data wrote about his DR project on this blog last year. So in many ways I’m pleased that we’ve been able to help so many customers and partners break down the barriers to enterprise-wide virtualization. But until today there’s been one barrier, not product related, that we haven’t been able to overcome to meet customer and partner demand: the ability to run and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux within a guest VM on WS08 Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server 2008. For all of those who have emailed me, my colleagues and your Microsoft account teams and partners, I’m pleased to say that today is the first big step to delivering that support. Microsoft and Red Hat recently signed agreements to test and validate our server operating systems running on each other’s hypervisors. Customers with valid support agreements will be able to run these 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. You can see Red Hat’s news release here, and watch a public webcast [live and archived] discussing this news. Read More...
Posted 15 February 09 09:00 by porourke | 31 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, Kroll, virtual machine, virtualization, Management, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, SoftGrid, Application Virtualization, System Center, virtualization management, cross-platform management, Management tools, Interop Vendor Alliance, Novell, Windows Server 2008, Red Hat, SVVP
Virtualization Feed for Your RSS Reader: With a "tip of the cap" to creators of Planet V12n blog, we've just launched a blog and Twitter aggregator for virtualization. It's called VirtualizationFeed. Like Planet V12n, this site aggregates virtualization blogs from lots of sources. In this case, 18 independent bloggers and 14 Microsoft bloggers on either TechNet or MSDN. I'm sure you'll recognize many of the names/blogs ... and maybe you'll discover new ones. For example: Tarry Singh (Netherlands) Andrew Dudgell (Australia) Kevin Fogarty (CIO.com) Allesandro Perilli (Italy) David Marshall (U.S.) Mark Bowker (ESG - analyst firm) Ben Armstrong (aka, Virtual PC Guy) Rakesh Malhotra (VM management blog) The App-V team blog Tony Soper's blog The blog aggregator will show a short (200-character) excerpt from the blog and point you to the blogger's site for the full post. In addition to blogs, you'll see a tab for Tweets. VirtualizationFeed.com is also a Twitter aggregator (in case you're not using Twitter's useful search tool) that pulls all virtualization-related tweets. Read More...
Posted 27 August 08 08:06 by porourke | 2 Comments
Filed under Virtual PC, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, Management, Community, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, SoftGrid, Application Virtualization, Microsoft Application Virtualization, System Center, Mark Bowker, virtualization management, Enterprise Strategy Group, Management tools, integrated virtualization, VMM 2008
Thoughts on today's virtualization licensing and support news: Today we announced some changes to server application licensing and support policies related to running MS server apps on top of anyone's hypervisor. Several folks have written or blogged about it, here are some: Chris Wolf (Burton Group) Virtualization.info NetworkWorld Windows IT Pro Thoughts on application mobility licensing Read More...
Posted 19 August 08 11:01 by porourke | 10 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, Management, ESX, VMWare, Application Virtualization, System Center, Interop, XenServer, Sun, Novell, Windows Server 2008

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