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March 31 live web chat

On Tuesday, March 31, Microsoft's Edwin Yuen will be hosting a live web chat 11am-3pm EST. Edwin is a sr. technical product manager. Edwin came to Microsoft with the acquisition of Softricity (and the SoftGrid application virtualization technology...

Published Mar 28 2009 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 768 views, 0 comments

System Center Ops Manager management pack for Hyper-V

A quick note that a beta of the Hyper-V management pack for System Center Operations Manager (2007, 2007 R2) is available. In combination with SCVMM (for advanced monitoring of VMs across your Hyper-V, ESX and Virtual Server environments), this SCOM management...

Published Mar 13 2009 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 840 views, 0 comments

SCVMM and VMware ESX management

The threat of virtualization sprawl. That was a theme my colleagues heard last week at IDC's "Directions" conference in San Jose. And true to IDC's form, they backed up their predictions with some numbers. Here's an excerpt from...

Published Mar 09 2009 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 1,018 views, 0 comments

Virtualization Review's hypervisor test

The other day, Virtualization Review published a comparative performance test of three hypervisors: VMware ESX 3.5, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. You can see it here . NOTE - there are few independent, published performance reviews...

Published Mar 09 2009 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 832 views, 0 comments

Trying to achieve granularity of backups with the Hyper-V VSS Writer

Another area of feedback on the Hyper-V VSS Writer is that it does not give much by way of granularity beyond the level of the virtual machine. As a result of that, backup applications are stuck to backing up the entire VHD file, which could easily end...

Published Mar 09 2009 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 770 views, 0 comments

Working around the pass through limitations of the Hyper-V VSS Writer

While the Hyper-V VSS writer provides backup admins significant flexibility in their ability to back up VMs in an application-consistent way while running backup applications in the physical machine, it does have a prominent limitation when it comes to...

Published Mar 03 2009 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 1,196 views, 0 comments

Fix for Cert Error on Hyper-V

Bryon over at the Windows Server Division blog pointed out a certificate error that can occur for those of you running WS08 Hyper-V and connect using vmconnect. The cert error results in the inability to start or connect to VMs running on WS08 Hyper-V...

Published Mar 02 2009 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 705 views, 0 comments

HP whitepapers on NIC Teaming for Hyper-V

HP has published 2 white papers describing their NIC teaming support for Hyper-V. First is a 5-page "how to" document specific to HP ProLiant. Here's the abstract: HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software allows ProLiant systems running Microsoft...

Published Mar 02 2009 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 930 views, 0 comments

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