My name is Ronald Beekelaar. I'm a Microsoft MVP of Virtual Machine Technology, based in Amsterdam. I have my own consultancy firm, and since 2002 I focus on virtualization. At first, this was strictly VMware-oriented, but a few years later this included Microsoft's virtualization products as well.
Since the first public beta of Hyper-V more than a year ago, I have done many presentations about Hyper-V at various events, and talked to a lot of customers about transitioning to Hyper-V. The people I talk to can be divided into two groups: they either have experience with Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server, or they only know the VMware products and are just now looking into Hyper-V. However, for both groups, and despite very different opinions, there are five topics that always come up in discussions. Below is my list of the top-5 things you should know and understand about Hyper-V.
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Filed under: Application Virtualization, ESX, Management tools, Microsoft Application Virtualization, MVP Summit, System Center, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, virtualization management, VMM 2008, VMWare, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, virtualization, virtual machine
I'm NOT in Orlando this week attending TechEd IT Pro conference. That means I get to enjoy Redmond's "wintery" spring weather and not Orlando's hot/humid thunderstorms. For those of you also NOT in Orlando, you can follow along with the happenings at a few spots:
Scott Lowe's blog, focus on virtualization (and expect comparisons to VMware's tools)
Margie Semilof from Techtarget will be publishing articles
Go here for blog roll and a bunch of news sources from the conference
I'll point out a few cool items from today's keynote:
You can now get cooperative technical support from Microsoft and four (initial) vendors [Citrix, Novell, Sun, Virtual Iron] when running Windows Server 2008 (or 2003, or 2000). How so? Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program is now operational and vendors have begun validating their configs. So you'll soon see additional vendor names added to KB article 944987. This program is only intended for the dozen or so vendors that make/sell their own Type 1 or Type 2 hypervisor, and want their customers to receive technical support from them and Microsoft.
MS Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid) 4.5 Release Candidate will be available by the end of June. And interestingly enough it's been almost 2 years since the Softricity acquisition. Tim Mangan blogged about this over at BrianMadden.com.
Double-Take, an ISV partner, announced that their GeoCluster technology will run on Hyper-V once the latter is released. GeoCluster works with Windows Server 2008 failover clustering, and offers somethign that VMware can't.
Forefront Client Security is adding host and guest VM support for Hyper-V upon its release. See more here.
Enjoy,
Patrick
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I am Gavriella Schuster and I am responsible for the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) within the Windows team. This week I was fortunate enough to participate in a panel discussion at Interop with my peers at Symantec, Citrix, and VMWare discussing
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Filed under: Application Virtualization, Clarian Health Partners, Interop, Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management, Microsoft Application Virtualization, Microsoft Asset Inventory Service, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset, Microsoft System Center Desktop Error Monitoring, SoftGrid, System Center, BASF, Swedish Medical Center, State of Indiana
