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• For $50,000, I could pay someone to move my virtual machines for me

  The title of this post will make sense in a moment. It's a quote from a customer in Australia ... and pretty funny one, too. But before that, a few items crossed my inbox that I thought I'd share: Software vendor AspenTech has a process engineering... Posted Oct 06 2008, 04:47 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Softgrid, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, Application Virtualization, Hyper-V, Microsoft application Virtualization, Virtualization Management, virtual machine, ESX, BASF

• Bare metal hypervisor is here, along with new training, services

  "Bare metal" was my attempt at being dramatic ;-) Anyway, I really wanted you to know that the standalone hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 , was released today for download. This is the no-cost, bare metal hypervisor. Think ESXi, but... Posted Oct 01 2008, 09:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Community, Virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, VMWare, Hyper-V, virtual machine, ESX, VMM 2008, Management tools

• VMworld is over, but the facts remain

  I’ve been to Las Vegas too many times to count and have always left with good stories, but I never thought that my best Vegas story would be work-related. That story of course is about last week’s marketing activity at VMworld . Definitely not your typical... Posted Sep 26 2008, 07:47 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Community, Virtualization, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, VMWare, Hyper-V, Virtualization Management, virtual machine, ESX, integrated virtualization

• The Validated Hypervisor

  By now you might have seen that VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 has passed the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program . They announced it here . today announced it has qualified its industry-leading VMware ESX hypervisor under the Microsoft Server... Posted Sep 03 2008, 09:00 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, Citrix, interop, VMWare, SUN, Hyper-V, virtual machine, ESX, XEN Virtual Server

• 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... Posted Aug 19 2008, 05:01 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Management, Virtualization, Novell, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, interop, VMWare, SUN, Application Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine, ESX, XEN Virtual Server

• Top 5 things to know about Hyper-V

  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... Posted Jun 30 2008, 07:32 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Server 2008, VMWare, Application Virtualization, Hyper-V, Microsoft application Virtualization, Virtualization Management, virtual machine, ESX, VMM 2008, MVP Summit, Management tools

• MS Management Summit sightings - VMware and Kidaro

  I arrived into Vegas (baby!) today for 3 days spread across Microsoft Management Summit and Interop Las Vegas 2008. And the conferences couldn't have been timed better as it was pooring rain when I left SeaTac and sunny and hot (for me) upon arrival... Posted Apr 28 2008, 08:50 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Management, Virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Virtualization, VMWare, virtual machine, ESX