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More on today's announcement with NetApp: We published some news today with NetApp; see here. In short, Microsoft and NetApp... today announced a new three-year agreement that deepens product collaboration and technical integration, and extends joint sales and marketing activities to customers worldwide. Under the new agreement, the two companies will collaborate and deliver technology solutions that span virtualization, private cloud computing, and storage and data management, enabling customers to increase data center management efficiencies, reduce costs, and improve business agility. As NetApp's partner site states, we'll work with NetApp to sell/market disaster recovery solutions using NetApp HA and DR storage with Hyper-V and System Center. There's a sample customer blueprint (.pdf) here with datacenter configs. And there's datacenter consolidation solutions, which are discussed in this white paper (here). Read More...
Posted 08 December 09 06:06 by porourke | 0 Comments
Filed under Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, System Center, VMM 2008, Cloud Computing, Live Migration, volume snapshot, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, NetApp
Update: More than recession: IDC's server virtualization tracker report: Update : The folks at IDC asked that I remove this blog post until further notice. That said, do check out Roger Johnson's post . He discusses Dell PowerEdge R910 and his Hyper-V deployment at Crutchfield. I met Roger at VMworld 2009. He's a VCP, having Read More...
Posted 27 October 09 05:24 by porourke | 0 Comments
Filed under Hyper-V, virtualization, ESX, VMWare, System Center, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, virtualization management, XenServer, Visual Studio, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
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
The Virtualization platform vs. the Operating System: Day 1 at VMworld was mostly about Labs and content which builds up to the main event starting with the keynote on Tuesday morning. Looking forward to today. In the meanwhile I have been hearing about a concept being put forth that the virtualization platform Read More...
Posted 01 September 09 02:01 by vtango | 1 Comments
Filed under Virtual Server, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, System Center, virtualization management, integrated virtualization, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server

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