The cover of the January issue of TechNet Magazine splashed “Living in a Virtual World: Powerful New Tools to Manage a Virtualized Datacenter” and prompted readers to explore the 4,000+ word overview of VMM 2007 by VMM’s own TPM Edwin Yuen. Initially, this issue was intended to highlight the larger System Center story (with VMM…
Tag: Virtual Server
Using BitLocker under Virtual PC / Virtual Server
I was giving a presentation the other day about SCVMM and our experiences. In the conversation a question was brought up “can you use Bitlocker in a Virtual Environment”. Ben Armstrong wrote a nice little article on just how you do this. Up until recently, I thought it was impossible to use BitLocker drive encryption…
Windows Virtualization Hypercall APIs available via open specification promise
Jeff posted up to the Windows Virtualization blog around the hypercall APIs. The good thing here is that we are continuing our drive to be open and allow easy ways for you to develop solutions. Great news for us and Great news for you! —————————————————— Microsoft today announced that it will extend the Open Specification…
Edinburgh Virtual Server and Beyond Day
Just wanted to post a quick blog saying thank you to all that attended the Virtual Server and Beyond Premier Services Day. Myself and BenP went up and delivered some great content and very cool demos on a number of areas. BenP covered of information on Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 and features. Where as…
Quick Start from Nothing to SCVMM
So I have been chatting to more and more people around System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and this product is great! Compared to other virtualization management tools that I have used in the past (prior to myself joining MS) this product really stands up and stands proud! If you have not played with SCVMM it…
Rakesh Malhotra gets blogging with the best of us!
Currently I am running from one side of Europe to the other so getting time to blog has been difficult! This week was Sweden and next week Edinburgh for a Premier day. But I wanted to take a quick moment when I spotted this news. So for those that don’t know Rakesh Malhotra is a…
Licensing Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 to Run with Virtualization Technologies
So here I am in Ghent in Belgium and a customer that I was with was talking about SWsoft Virtuozzo and the licence costs around the product! I looked at them and went hmmmmmmm I know just the article! Licensing Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 to Run with Virtualization Technologies. I don’t know about you, but…
TechNet Podcast: An Interview with Bryon Surace on Windows Server Virtualisation Scenarios and Architecture
So whilst doing my section of the platforms Technical Rollup Mail I came across this cool little podcast that Bryon did! Tune in for the interview with Bryon Surace as he provides a brief overview of the new virtualisation technologies incorporated in Windows Server 2008. He will provide an overview of the scenarios, architecture and…
WSV Customer Technology Preview (CTP) Setup Guide
Windows Server virtualization is now publicly available with Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0. The build number for Windows Server RC0 is: 6001.16659.070916-1443. Publicly, you can download Windows Server 2008 RC0 here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/audsel.mspx System Requirements: · Windows Server virtualization requires an x64-based processor, hardware-assisted virtualization (AMD-V or Intel VT), and hardware data execution protection….
Troubleshooting slow OS installation over the network
One of my friends who does a lot of work on O/S deployments and the BDD (Ian Fraser ) always questioned me about Virtual Server 2005 and slow network install’s when using PXE. He always asked “why and what can I do to improve this?” Well Robert Larson wrote a great little number on his blog that explained…