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Upcoming Webcasts on Best Practices for Virtualizing MS Server Applications: We’ve got some great webcasts coming up in the next few weeks to discuss recommendations for virtualizing MS server applications and the benefits of choosing hyper-V + System Center as your virtualization solution. Each technical webcast will focus on Read More...
Posted 27 October 09 11:25 by porourke | 0 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, Management, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, System Center, virtualization management, Management tools, Windows Server 2008, High Availability, Live Migration, volume snapshot, Windows Server 2008 R2
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
Hyper-V, your journey starts here!: I have been inundated by people here at VMworld 2009 with tons of questions on Hyper-V and who want to see demos of Hyper-V. This blog post attempts to put together a list material for folks. Given the large amount of material this list is only a snapshot Read More...
Posted 03 September 09 05:59 by vtango | 1 Comments
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Microsoft Virtualization: Best Choice for MS Server Applications: Hello, I’m Zane Adam, general manager of Virtualization and Systems Management. As more and more customers are looking at virtualization to help reduce cost and decrease complexity in their infrastructure, we are seeing lots of questions around virtualizing MS server applications such as Exchange, SQL and SharePoint. What benefits should I expect to see? What do I need to consider when virtualizing these mission critical business application? Should I virtualize all roles within a server application? We have worked across MS application groups to test our products with hyper-v and we believe that MS virtualization is the best choice for MS server applications. First, MS server applications are built for Windows Server, and because hyper-v is part of the operating system, there is no need to add complexity of support and interoperability by adding a 3rd party virtualization layer. This means there is just one stop for all of your support needs and also assurance that the stack of applications and hypervisor works well together. Second, to help ensure optimal performance Microsoft has specific deployment guidance for virtualizing MS server applications which results in a mixed physical and virtual environment. System Center is the management solution that allows you to view both physical and virtual instances from one console. Third, as you know MS virtualization is up to six times less expensive than other virtualization solutions in the market, which makes running your server applications even that more affordable. Read More...
Posted 02 September 09 05:21 by porourke | 1 Comments
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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
Follow us on Twitter and get a chance to win a Zune HD: I now have the final list of sessions that I will be attending at VMworld. As I noted last time I had a lot of waitlists which it now appears I have not made the cut for most of the sessions. That means I will be at our booth (#2422) almost all of today Read More...
Posted 31 August 09 02:09 by vtango | 1 Comments
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (Free live migration anyone!) available for download: We are really excited to announce that Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is available for download here . It’s been a long an exciting journey bringing this product to our customers. The chart below tells it all, we have listened to our customers and have Read More...
Posted 28 August 09 11:05 by vtango | 1 Comments
Filed under Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, integrated virtualization, Live Migration, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Update: What you won't see at VMworld 2009: This post is for the readers out there that will be attending VMworld, or have colleagues attending VMworld. There’s been some speculative statements made in the press and blogs in the past 24 hours, so I want to try to set the record straight: 1. Microsoft Read More...
Posted 27 August 09 12:30 by porourke | 1 Comments
Filed under Hyper-V, Kroll, virtualization, Community, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, ESX, VMWare, Microsoft Application Virtualization, System Center, cross-platform management, VMM 2008, events, Windows Server 2008 R2
VMworld 2009 an oppurtunity to meet our customers: Hi, I am Vijay Tewari a program manager with the Virtualization team here at Microsoft. Having spent the last 15 months or so deeply involved in the development of Hyper-V I am really looking forward to meeting customers and partners at VMworld 2009 . Read More...
Posted 26 August 09 05:09 by vtango | 1 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, ESX, VMWare, Microsoft System Center Desktop Error Monitoring, virtualization management, integrated virtualization, Cloud Computing, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Guest Post: All Eyes on SteelEye with DataKeeper Support for Hyper-V: Hi all, My name is Dave Bermingham and I’m the director of Windows product management for SteelEye Technology, a provider of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions. I’d like to thank Microsoft’s Virtualization team for the opportunity to guest blog on SteelEye’s continued support for Hyper-V as well as exciting new features coming in support of Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2. I can’t believe it is almost a year ago since I demonstrated SteelEye DataKeeper Cluster Edition at the Microsoft Virtualization Launch event in Bellevue, WA. In the past year we have seen the interest in our Hyper-V disaster recovery products increase dramatically and with the recent release of Windows Server 2008 R2, I believe we have just seen the tip of the iceberg! SteelEye’s mission is to “Replicate Any Data, Protect Any Application.” We pride ourselves on our commitment to provide the Windows marketplace with flexible, scalable and cost-effective solutions that are enterprise-grade yet customizable for any size business. Most recently SteelEye identified an opportunity to extend Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering (WSFC) by delivering SteelEye DataKeeper Cluster Edition, a real-time data replication solution that integrates seamlessly with WSFC to enable multi-site clusters while eliminating the single point of failure traditionally associated with shared storage resources. A comprehensive and cost-effective disaster recovery solution, DataKeeper Cluster Edition helps supports improved productivity and availability of your Hyper-V VMs. Read More...
Posted 20 August 09 05:10 by porourke | 2 Comments
Filed under Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, virtualization, Interop, High Availability, Live Migration, VSS, guest blog post, Windows Server 2008 R2
Partner Resources: Windows Error Reporting & More: Virtualization Nation, In my last blog, I discussed the importance of a Security Development Lifecycle and how we're making resources available to our customers and partners. Today, I want to discuss a more resources Microsoft provides our partners to Read More...
Posted 18 August 09 07:20 by WSV_GUY | 1 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtualization, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2
Hypervisor Footprint Debate Part 3: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V & VMware ESXi 3.5: In my last two blog posts ( Part 1 & Part 2 ), I started an in depth analysis tackling VMware's claims head on that because their disk footprint is smaller and ESX/ESXi are single purpose hypervisors, they are therefore more secure. If that's the Read More...
Posted 17 August 09 06:01 by WSV_GUY | 19 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, virtualization, ESX, Windows Server 2008, High Availability, Live Migration, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Hypervisor Footprint Debate Part 1 UPDATE: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 & VMware ESXi 3.5: Virtualization Nation, In my last blog post, I started an in depth analysis tackling VMware’s claims head on that because their disk footprint is smaller and ESX/ESXi are single purpose hypervisors, they are therefore more secure. I read some posts on Read More...
Posted 13 August 09 02:56 by WSV_GUY | 5 Comments
Filed under Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtualization, ESX, VMWare, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server

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