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• Guest post: Moving VM automation and inventory beyond Excel files

  Hi, I’m John Suit, CTO and principal founder of Fortisphere , which is a member of the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program . In this tough economy, the cost savings of virtualization are driving faster adoption – and the introduction of Microsoft Hyper... Posted Nov 19 2008, 01:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Management, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, Virtualization Management, virtual machine, VMM 2008, Management tools, integrated virtualization, cross-platform management

• New VDI, Management Technology Announced

  A few items to call out. First up is Manlio's post about the renaming of Terminal Services - it'll be known as Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 -- and the new VDI features. Here's an excerpt: The key here is that RDS in Windows... Posted Nov 04 2008, 12:17 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Management, Virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, Virtualization Management, virtual machine, Management tools, VDI, Virtual Desktop Architecture, cross-platform management

• Guest Post: Intel Inside for Hyper-V Virtualization

  Hi my name is Radhakrishna Hiremane, a senior product marketing engineer at Intel based in Portland, Oregon, and I’m responsible for marketing of virtualization technology on Intel servers and workstations. Microsoft recently extended the processor core... Posted Oct 28 2008, 12:43 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Intel, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine

• Guest post: Hyper-V Performance Scales Well in 24-Core Dell Server

  My name is Todd Muirhead and I’m one of the engineers behind Dell’s online community for IT professionals – DellTechCenter . This means that I get to work with all of the latest Dell servers and storage and provide technical guidance and assistance to... Posted Oct 15 2008, 03:33 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, Dell, Virtualization Management, virtual machine, VMM 2008, Management tools

• 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

• Hyper-V: Dynamic versus Fixed VHD Performance

  Tim Litton posted a blog about performance optimization for Hyper-V, looking at fixed versus dynamic VHDs. Here's an excerpt: The following graph shows the relative performances for a number of different scenarios (with Dynamic VHD being the baseline... Posted Sep 19 2008, 03:41 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine

• Guest Post: Virtualization and Cloud Computing

  Hello, my name is Karl Schulmeisters, director of alliance technology and architecture for the Microsoft global alliance at Unisys. We are a global systems integrator that focuses on large scale-up solutions particularly in the public sector, financial... Posted Sep 10 2008, 02:54 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center, Community, Virtualization, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, interop, Application Virtualization, Hyper-V, Microsoft application Virtualization, virtual machine, Cloud computing, integrated virtualization, VDI

• 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

• Hyper-V available via Windows Update today

  The update will be classified as a "recommended update", which means it will flow down automatically according to the settings you’ve selected for your Windows Server 2008 OS. It’s also being released to Windows Server Update Services. Taylor... Posted Jul 08 2008, 01:55 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine

• Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

  Daniel asked about the Linux integration components for Hyper-V. They've now reached RC2 status, according to Mike Sterling , and are available from http://connect.microsoft.com/ Hang on – did you say RC2? Due to customer feedback from the beta version... Posted Jul 02 2008, 12:08 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Novell, Windows Server 2008, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine

• Virtualization wrap from TechEd IT Pro

  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... Posted Jun 10 2008, 11:10 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Softgrid, Windows Virtualization, Citrix, Application Virtualization, Hyper-V, Microsoft application Virtualization, virtual machine

• 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

• Isolation of VMs

  Our resident VM security dev lead, Brandon Baker, posted a blog today about isolation of VMs. Brandon shares his thoughts on VM security, many of which he also shared to attendees of the BlackHat security conferences in U.S. and Japan last year. Brandon... Posted Apr 07 2008, 04:31 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Windows Virtualization, Hyper-V, virtual machine