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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...

Published Sep 26 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 1,039 views, 0 comments

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...

Published Sep 19 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 938 views, 0 comments

Microsoft Offers VMworld Attendees a Warm Welcome

VMworld 2008 officially began Monday with the opening of the Labs, Exhibitor Hall, and VMware’s Partner Day, but yesterday morning really kicked off the start of the conference for many with Paul Maritz giving the Welcome and Opening Keynote and Cisco...

Published Sep 16 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 800 views, 0 comments

Symantec Announces New Backup Exec 12.5 Agent Supporting Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Hi, my name is Pat Hanavan, vice president of Product Management in Symantec's Data Protection Group, and I'm pleased to share that today (September 15, 2008) Symantec announced a new Backup Exec 12.5 agent supporting Windows Server 2008 Hyper...

Published Sep 15 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 1,445 views, 0 comments

Pre-VMworld: Check out Hyper-V Server and Live Migration demos

While you getting ready for the weekend, or getting ready to head to Vegas, you might be interested to check out these first-look demos of Hyper-V Server 2008 (standalone hypervisor, due in a few weeks) and live migration with Windows Server 2008 R2....

Published Sep 12 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 896 views, 0 comments

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...

Published Sep 10 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 1,124 views, 0 comments

Before we get to VMworld Vegas

My ears are still ringing from Monday's virtualization event in Bellevue. Not necessarily from the keynotes or demos, but mainly from being 10 feet away from the stage as the band Live played a 60+ minute set during the party. Here's a photo I...

Published Sep 10 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 913 views, 0 comments

MS Hyper-V Server: in 30 days for $0

The show begins in 10 hours, but the news it out: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, a new hypervisor-based server virtualization product (like ESXi), will be released within 30 days and be available at no cost via the Web Microsoft will demonstrate live...

Published Sep 08 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 1,013 views, 0 comments

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...

Published Sep 03 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 939 views, 0 comments

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