Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Videos to watch: Mark Russinovich; Virt and cloud computing panel

2008-12-10T22:00:00Z

Before I start hunkering down for what's supposed to be a snowy weekend in Redmond, and without college football on TV, I wanted to pass along a couple videos that are worth a watch. First, TechTarget interviewed Mark Russinovich, technical follow Read More......(read more)

Guest post: Hyper-Green.com - Saving Energy While Reducing Your Carbon Footprint and Costs in the Process

2008-11-20T07:30:00Z

Green, Sustainability, and Environment – what does this have to do with virtualization? Quite simply virtualization technologies can help you reduce your carbon footprint, reduce energy, reduce cooling, and of course save some money as well. Today we're Read More......(read more)

Guest post: Moving VM automation and inventory beyond Excel files

2008-11-19T07:28:00Z

Hi, I’m John Suit, CTO and principal founder of Fortisphere , which is a member of the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program . In this tough economy, the cost savings of virtualization are driving faster adoption – and the introduction of Microsoft Hyper Read More......(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 lab management uses virtualization

2008-11-12T21:10:00Z

There are 4 million .NET developers in the world, so I figure one or two might read this blog, or you might know someone. A couple weeks ago at the Professional Developers Conference , we began discussing , and announced a CTP, of Visual Studio 10 . One Read More......(read more)

New VDI, Management Technology Announced

2008-11-04T06:17:00Z

A few items to call out. First up is Manlio's post about the renaming of Terminal Services - it'll be known as Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 -- and the new VDI features. Here's an excerpt: The key here is that RDS in Windows Read More......(read more)

Guest Post: Intel Inside for Hyper-V Virtualization

2008-10-28T05:43:00Z

Hi my name is Radhakrishna Hiremane, a senior product marketing engineer at Intel based in Portland, Oregon, and I’m responsible for marketing of virtualization technology on Intel servers and workstations. Microsoft recently extended the processor core Read More......(read more)

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTMs and what I’m hearing from customers and partners about Microsoft’s virtualization solutions

2008-10-21T07:52:00Z

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTMs and what I’m hearing from customers and partners about Microsoft’s virtualization solutions I’m Zane Adam, sr. director of virtualization strategy here in Redmond at Microsoft. I’m writing today to announce Read More......(read more)

Guest post: IU Hoosier virtualizes 75% of workloads - saving time and money with System Center, PowerShell, and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

2008-10-21T07:50:00Z

Hi, I’m Janssen Jones, and I’m the Associate Director of Auxiliary IT Infrastructure at Indiana University. Since April, my team has been evaluating the beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) as part of the SCVMM Technology Adoption Read More......(read more)

Guest post: Hyper-V Performance Scales Well in 24-Core Dell Server

2008-10-15T20:33:00Z

My name is Todd Muirhead and I’m one of the engineers behind Dell’s online community for IT professionals – DellTechCenter . This means that I get to work with all of the latest Dell servers and storage and provide technical guidance and assistance to Read More......(read more)

Guest post: virtualization requires the proper perspective

2008-10-10T05:09:00Z

Hi, I’m Doug de Werd, technical marketing manager for Windows Virtualization at Hewlett-Packard . In the past few weeks following the Microsoft virtualization launch event in Bellevue the virtualization buzz keeps growing louder and louder. We keep hearing Read More......(read more)

For $50,000, I could pay someone to move my virtual machines for me

2008-10-06T21:47:00Z

The title of this post will make sense in a moment. It's a quote from a customer in Australia ... and pretty funny one, too. But before that, a few items crossed my inbox that I thought I'd share: Software vendor AspenTech has a process engineering Read More......(read more)

Bare metal hypervisor is here, along with new training, services

2008-10-01T14:28:00Z

"Bare metal" was my attempt at being dramatic ;-) Anyway, I really wanted you to know that the standalone hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 , was released today for download. This is the no-cost, bare metal hypervisor. Think ESXi, but Read More......(read more)

VMworld is over, but the facts remain

2008-09-27T00:47:00Z

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 Read More......(read more)

Hyper-V: Dynamic versus Fixed VHD Performance

2008-09-19T20:41:00Z

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 Read More......(read more)

Microsoft Offers VMworld Attendees a Warm Welcome

2008-09-16T22:41:00Z

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 Read More......(read more)