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"Customers “Get Virtual Now” with increased flexibility and broader support when virtualizing Microsoft server applications." Hard to beat that line from the recent Microsoft press announcement . But what does it mean? Microsoft...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 4:17 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Virtualization, Hyper-V, Windows Server Virtualization

Microsoft Virtualization launch

Mark your calendars, September 8th in Bellevue, WA. If you are in the area, don't miss this opportunity! Microsoft will launch "Microsoft Virtualization". While others build pieces of the puzzle, Microsoft is able to provide the whole picture...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 12:44 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Microsoft, 64-bit, Hyper-V, Windows Server Virtualization

Customer ready document on Hyper-V

One of the PMs on the Windows team sent around a list of valuable resources about Hyper-V today. Somebody was asking for technical documents on Hyper-V on an internal email list and Baldwin Ng was kind enough to share some. I am just forwarding this quite...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 10:50 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Hyper-V

Windows, Memory and the limits to it

First of all, no matter how much memory you put into your system, it ain't enough. And this is true for all or at least most of the operating systems. Earlier this week Mark Russinovich wrote a blog post about "Pushing the Limits of Windows:...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 5:02 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Application Compatibility, Microsoft, Virtualization, 64-bit, Resources, Developer, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008, Windows HPC Server 2008, Essential Business Server

Hyper-V RTM is today

What else to say? Let the fun begin or - like Patrick says - "We’re bringing the joy of the holidays back to you with the “12 Days of Virt-Mas.”

Published Thu, Jun 06 2008 5:21 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Virtualization, Hyper-V

Exchange Server support in virtual machines

On Scott Schnoll's weblog " Is this thing on? " Scott provides details on the support for Exchange Server 2007 in Hyper-V hosted guest OS as outlined in a TechEd 2008 session earlier this month. Some key points of his post: Within 60 days...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2008 11:00 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Virtualization, Hyper-V

Virtualization or How Microsoft Does IT

In case you wonder how mature virtualization technology from Microsoft, namely Hyper-V, is, you should sign up for the upcoming life TechNet webcast "How Microsoft does IT: Management and Operations in Windows Server 2008". But be warned, this...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 3:02 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Virtualization, Hyper-V

Hyper-V Check Tool for AMD Processors

Ben just pointed to a page on AMD's website containing valuable processor related tools for free download. The one of importance here is obviously an " AMD Virtualization™ Technology and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ System Compatibility...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 8:29 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Viridian, Virtualization, Hyper-V, Windows Server Virtualization, AMD

Turning a Mac Mini into a virtual Windows HPC Server 2008 Compute Cluster

Best thing you can do to a Mac Mini? No, wait, certainly not the right way to start this post. I am going prepare a Mac Mini in such a way that you will be able to install a 2 or more node HPC cluster and a head node. Once you followed the steps outlined...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2008 5:15 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: HPC, Virtualization, Mac, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008, Windows HPC Server 2008, Apple, Windows Server Virtualization, Mac Mini

Hyper-V Release Candidate available

YES, RC0 of the Microsoft virtualization solution Hyper-V is available for download. John Howard has an excellent and extensive blog post about the details. Please pay close attention to his post and read 'til the end before you install the bits!...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2008 11:01 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Viridian, Virtualization, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server Virtualization

Future in the Cloud

These days there's a lot of talk in the industry about cloud computing. This is no different inside Microsoft. The hallways are full of "cloud talk" and "could action". I guess we will see quite some impressive announcements and...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 5:19 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: HPC, Virtualization, Hyper-V, SQL Server, Cloud Computing

Storage Options for Hyper-V

As always, Andrew beat me on this one too. Jose Barreto, he's technical evangelist in the storage team, posted a blog entry about "Storage options for Windows Server 2008's Hyper-V." Very nice, very complete. Content Exposing storage...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 7:48 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Virtualization, Hyper-V

Windows IT Pro took a first look at Hyper-V

Mike Otey from Windows IT Pro took a look at our next generation virtualization product. Looks like he's pretty impressed. My favorite: "... Hyper-V, is a significant new competitor that has the potential to change the market." You'll...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2008 8:40 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Microsoft, Virtualization, Hyper-V

Hyper-V WMI API Sample Code

Ben kept word . Yesterday he started his "Week of Hyper-V Scripts".

Published Tue, Jan 01 2008 11:09 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Viridian, Virtualization, WMI, Hyper-V

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Hyper-V RTM is today

Exchange Server support in virtual machines

Virtualization or How Microsoft Does IT

Hyper-V Check Tool for AMD Processors

Turning a Mac Mini into a virtual Windows HPC Server 2008 Compute Cluster

Hyper-V Release Candidate available

Future in the Cloud

Storage Options for Hyper-V

Windows IT Pro took a first look at Hyper-V

Hyper-V WMI API Sample Code