Microsoft Virtualization and Management solutions

Microsoft offers virtualization and management from data center to desktop:

 

* Microsoft Virtualization and Management slide download (6.3M)

 

* Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration (5min) (2.9M)

* Command line support demos in Server Core link (look for "Windows 2008 RODC and Server Core demo video")

 

* Demo video: Terminal Services Remote Apps (1.1M)

* Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 overview link

* SoftGrid for Terminal Services 12min demo video download (1.2M)

 

* Windows 7 XP mode demo video (1M)

* Charlie Tan's System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Overview (9.4M). In this presentation, Performance and Resource Optimization(PRO) is discussed. It allows VMs to be move between Physical Servers when System Center Operations Manager 2007 detects that a server is under stress.

 


* Enabling Dynamic Memory in Hyper-V and the Dynamic Memory webcast

* Linux Integration Services v2.1 Now Available

* Antivirus and Hyper-V

* Hyper-V poster download

* VMworld: Is it a Scalability Issue to run Drivers in the Hyper-V Parent Partition? (Answer: No)

* Processor Affinity and why you don’t need it on Hyper-V

* Hyper-V at home

* Disk2vhd v1.0 now available

* How I Manage Servers in my House

* Hyper-V and UPS

* Windows XP Mode large scale deployment

* Understanding High-End Video Performance Issues with Hyper-V

* Booting Hyper-V R2 off a USB stick

* Hyper-V Monitor Gadget

* Hyper-V ActiveX RDP Control

* Hyper-V Whitepapers / Guides (Live Migration configuration + Storage Performance)

* Connecting a Smart Card to a Windows 7 virtual machine: use Device Manager to find the device driver name, then this URL to find a driver https://test.catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/DownloadInformation.aspx

* Performing a “configuration only” export / import on Hyper-V

* Scripts to Inventory Virtual Machines [Hyper-V]

* Hyper-V Best Practice Analyzer

* TechNet Wiki: Virtualization Portal