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• Hyper-V VM Density, VP:LP Ratio, Cores and Threads...

  Virtualization Nation, With Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1, we focused Hyper-V development on enhancing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) scenarios, which resulted in the introduction of Dynamic Memory and... Posted Apr 25 2011, 08:18 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Dynamic Memory, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RTM

• MICROSOFT HYPER-V SERVER 2008 R2 SP1 RELEASED!

  Virtualization Nation, The good news just keeps coming and we’re pleased to keep the momentum rolling with the latest release of our rock stable, feature rich, standalone Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1! For those who need a... Posted Apr 12 2011, 05:38 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, VDI, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Virtual Desktop Architecture, Hyper-V Linux Novell Red Hat

• System Center Essentials, The better way to manage your virtual environment…

  Rob Waggoner I should have told you about System Center Essentials (SCE) before now, but better late than never, right?  I just watched a video with Kory McCormick and Edwin Yuen discussing Virtualization in the SMB space and Edwin has some good... Posted Dec 22 2010, 02:56 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Systems Management, Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, SCE 2010, System Center Essentials 2010, Rob Waggoner

• Guest post: Storage Loves Dynamic Memory

  Hi, I’m Alex Miroshnichenko , chief technology officer of Virsto Software . One of the most exciting events of my summer was the announcement of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Though still in beta, SP1’s stability has... Posted Sep 14 2010, 11:32 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, guest blog post, Dynamic Memory

• Why Does Microsoft exhibit at VMworld?

  I’ll be posting more this week about what you’ll see when you visit the Microsoft booth (#1431) at VMworld 2010 U.S. conference next week. You can read an overview at NetworkWorld . But last week a virtualization industry insider and consultant... Posted Aug 24 2010, 12:23 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, System Center, Virtualization, Softgrid, Windows Server 2008, Citrix, VMWare, Hyper-V, MMS, Cloud computing, SVVP, Microsoft Hyper-V Server

• Installing Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

  With the release of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 a number of you have asked about Service Pack 1 for the standalone Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 , and whether the new capabilities of Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX will be available... Posted Jul 16 2010, 03:09 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Windows Virtualization, integrated virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Calista Technologies, RemoteFX

• Update to private cloud toolkit for System Center

  Back in February we started working with partners and TAP customers on a toolkit to create private cloud environment. See our February blog about the Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center. A couple updates were announced Monday at our Worldwide... Posted Jul 14 2010, 12:43 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, System Center, Virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Hyper-V, Cloud computing, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtuallization Solution Accelerators

• Download beta of Windows Server 2008 R2 sp1

  Over at the Windows Server Division blog , Oliver says the beta is available to download . Oliver focuses on Windows Server 2008 R2 sp1, but Windows 7 sp1 beta is also available. All of this was announced today at our Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington... Posted Jul 12 2010, 10:36 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Virtualization, Hyper-V, VDI, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Dynamic Memory, RemoteFX

• VDI reference architecture with HP and Citrix

  At HP's Tech Forum conference , HP started to market a VDI reference architecture, and deployment offer, with us and Citrix. The brochure can be seen here . The VDI offer can be seen here . The nuts and bolts of the architecture includes: HP ProLiant... Posted Jun 22 2010, 05:08 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, HP, Citrix, Hyper-V, virtual machine, VDI, Microsoft Hyper-V Server

• Dynamic Memory Coming to Hyper-V Part 5.

  ===================================================================== Preamble: The point of this series, and the spirit in which it is written, is to take a holistic approach at the issues facing our customers, discuss the complexities with regard to... Posted May 20 2010, 07:52 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Dynamic Memory

• Resellers and SIs check out our virtualization partner profitability toolkit

  This post is for all the Microsoft channel partners who read this blog. You'll want to check out our new virtualization partner profitability toolkit ( here ). David Greschler's blog here sums it up better than I could. Here's an excerpt:... Posted May 19 2010, 01:27 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Windows Server 2008, VMWare, Hyper-V, Live Migration, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Dynamic Memory

• Dynamic Memory Coming to Hyper-V Part 4

  ===================================================================== Preamble: The point of this series, and the spirit in which it is written, is to take a holistic approach at the issues facing our customers, discuss the complexities with regard to... Posted Apr 21 2010, 09:39 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, VDI, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Dynamic Memory

• Dynamic Memory Coming to Hyper-V Part 2…

  ====================================================== Preamble: The point of this series, and the spirit in which it is written, is to take a holistic approach at the issues facing our customers, discuss the complexities with regard to memory management... Posted Mar 25 2010, 08:53 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, VDI, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2

• Dynamic Memory Coming To Hyper-V

  Virtualization Nation, I’ve had the pleasure of talking with customers in the last few months and the Hyper-V R2 reception has been nothing but unequivocally positive. Whether it’s been folks in small, medium or the enterprise, they appreciate the new... Posted Mar 18 2010, 09:02 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, VDI, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Calista Technologies

• Virtualization for Server Workloads: Avanade Case Study, NetApp Whitepaper

  Our customers often deploy Microsoft server workloads, such as SQL Server, SharePoint and Exchange, on Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center, and want to know how other customers have deployed these workloads and if there are deployment guidelines from... Posted Mar 08 2010, 05:18 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SQL, SQL Server, Virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Hyper-V, VSS, high availability, Virtualization Management, virtual machine, VMM 2008, Management tools, Live Migration, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, NetApp

• Which version of Hyper-V should I choose?

  I’ve talked to a lot of partners about Hyper-V, and the same question always comes up. Which version of Hyper-V should I choose? We have a page that lays out the differences between the different versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Microsoft Hyper... Posted Dec 22 2009, 07:42 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Compare editions, Server 2008 Hyper-V

• RT "Cutting through the FUD: Facts you should know about Hyper-V and System Center"

  I'm not sure the retweet tag (RT) also applies to blogs or not, but I thought I'd give it a try. Now to my point. Edwin posted a good blog this evening about re-occurring Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt the spreads via traditional journalism or blogs... Posted Dec 19 2009, 01:30 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Management, Virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Hyper-V, Virtualization Management, virtual machine, ESX, VMM 2008, Live Migration, Microsoft Hyper-V Server

• Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool v2.1

  Virtualization affects how we plan, build, deploy, operate, and service workloads. C ustomers are creating large libraries of virtual machines containing various configurations. The patch-state of these virtual machines are not always known. Ensuring... Posted Dec 10 2009, 09:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, VSS, virtual machine, Management tools, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtuallization Solution Accelerators, volume snapshot

• TechEd EMEA Day 2

  Hello again from Berlin. As many of you probably saw on TV (or in the streets), it was an amazing celebration for the fall of the Berlin Wall. As for TechEd, day 2 has been amazing. I think that the thing everyone I’ve spoken to at the show is how friendly... Posted Nov 10 2009, 03:45 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Management, Virtual Machine Manager, VMWare, Hyper-V, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V Server

• More than recession: IDC's server virtualization tracker report

  The folks at IDC updated their server virtualization tracker report today, highlighting the toll the recession has had on the market ... even server virtualization. It turned out to be fortunate timing as rival Gartner had just published their numbers... Posted Oct 26 2009, 11:24 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Virtualization, Visual Studio, VMWare, Hyper-V, Virtualization Management, ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Windows Server 2008 R2, XenServer

• 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... Posted Sep 24 2009, 09:03 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtual PC, System Center, Management, Virtualization, Virtual Server, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, Application Virtualization, Hyper-V, Microsoft application Virtualization, Virtualization Management, virtual machine, VMM 2008, integrated virtualization, Live Migration, VDI, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtual Desktop Architecture, Virtuallization Solution Accelerators, Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Tool

• 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... Posted Sep 03 2009, 11:59 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Management, Virtualization, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, Virtualization Management, virtual machine, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Virtuallization Solution Accelerators

• 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... Posted Sep 02 2009, 08:39 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Management, Virtualization, Application Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, Management tools, integrated virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, cross-platform management

• 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... Posted Sep 01 2009, 08:01 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Virtualization, Virtual Server, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, Virtualization Management, virtual machine, integrated virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, 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... Posted Aug 26 2009, 11:09 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Windows Virtualization, VMWare, Hyper-V, Virtualization Management, virtual machine, Cloud computing, ESX, integrated virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft System Center Desktop Error Monitoring