Last week we held the “super bowl” (or “world cup” depending upon which flavor of football you prefer) of IT Pro conferences at Tech Ed held in Orlando. If you were there, you know that virtualization and our investments across the board were a central theme. I had the privilege of demonstrating SCVMM 2008 with Hyper-V…
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SCVMM 2008 Beta and Hyper-V RC1 are now compatible
Many of you probably are already aware of this but in case you missed it, you can get the SCVMM patch that enables RC1 Hyper-V compat. The bits are available through our connect site. Key thing to keep in mind before applying the patch is that you must upgrade *all* of your Hyper-V hosts to RC1. The…
Update on SCVMM and Hyper-V RC1
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last post but just wanted folks to know that we’re almost ready with a patch that makes SCVMM beta compatible with Hyper-V RC1. We’re “dogfooding” it (we’re using it ourselves) internally for the next couple of days and barring any showstoppers, we should have a public patch available…
SCVMM 2008 Beta and the Hyper-V RC1 Release
The Hyper-V team has released RC1 of our virtualization platform (you can ready more about it here). Due to some necessary and important interface changes made by the Hyper-V team, the recently released beta of SCVMM 2008 doesn’t work correctly with Hyper-V RC1. Needless to say, we’re working on a patch and plan to fully…
VNext is VNow!
In case you missed the announcement last week at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, the beta for VMM VNext (now called VMM 2008) is publicly available – you can download the software here: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/scvmm/default.mspx The beta is nearly feature complete meaning that in one form or another, we have implemented all of the…
Backup – Somebody has to do it!
Not necessarily a glamorous topic I know, but absolutely essential as part of any deployment. Contrary to popular belief (or what other vendors might have you believe) you don’t need to re-engineer your backup infrastructure or license new technology if you’re using virtualization. One of the benefits of virtualization with Windows as the host OS is that…
Our Team is Hiring!
There is never a shortage of feature requests and ideas hitting my inbox. Like most technology companies, the single biggest thing that helps us deliver more of the stuff you need faster is an abundance of smart, passionate people. I thought I’d take this opportunity to mention that our team in Redmond is hiring developers,…
SCVMM "VNext" is getting closer
Sorry for the large gap between posts here folks but as you might imagine, we’ve been pretty heads down working on the next release of SCVMM. Our immediate goal is to get the beta out so that you all can start managing your Hyper-V deployments and also start consolidating your management. A few weeks ago…
Why we decided to manage VMware and what that means
Since we announced a few months back that our next release of VMM (VNext) would manage VMware, I’ve received lots of questions with respect to why we made this decision and what “manage VMware” really means. Let me walk you through some of the reasoning and thinking. 1) Customers – The primary reason that we…
SCVMM and the Hyper-V Beta
I’ve been getting lots of questions about SCVMM and the recently announced Hyper-V beta (more info about that here). The version of SCVMM that we released a couple of months back supports Virtual Server running on Windows Server 2003 only. Support for Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 is being worked on as we speak and…