Windows Virtualization Team Blog

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

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:00:00 GMT

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)

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

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:30:00 GMT

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)

Guest post: Moving VM automation and inventory beyond Excel files

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:28:00 GMT

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)

Visual Studio 2010 lab management uses virtualization

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:10:00 GMT

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)

New VDI, Management Technology Announced

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:17:00 GMT

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)

Guest Post: Intel Inside for Hyper-V Virtualization

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:43:00 GMT

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)

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

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:52:00 GMT

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)

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

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:50:00 GMT

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)

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

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33:00 GMT

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)

Guest post: virtualization requires the proper perspective

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:09:00 GMT

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)

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

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:47:00 GMT

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)

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

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:28:00 GMT

"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)

VMworld is over, but the facts remain

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:47:00 GMT

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)

Hyper-V: Dynamic versus Fixed VHD Performance

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:41:00 GMT

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)

Microsoft Offers VMworld Attendees a Warm Welcome

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:41:00 GMT

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)