Virtual Server Maximums...

Virtualization Nation, In my last blog, I discussed the fact that with Virtual Server R2 SP1 we increased the amount of physical memory that Virtual Server can address from 64 GB to 256 GB. I saw that this prompted questions about other maximums...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on September 21, 2007.

WinHEC 2006 Presentation slides are available online

The Microsoft WinHEC 2006 presentation slides are now available to view online under the WHDC (Windows Hardware Developer Central) area on microsoft.com. The Windows Virtualization related sessions are near the bottom of the page and are listed...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on September 21, 2007.

Windows Server virtualization at WinHEC

Hello and welcome to the Microsoft virtual machine team’s blog!  On Monday the 22nd, as part of the WinHEC conference, we announced the next steps in our virtualization strategy and outlined our roadmap of products.  As we march towards...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on September 21, 2007.

Virtual Server R2 SP1 can run up to 512 virtual machines...

Virtualization Nation, In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned the fact that Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 now supports up to 256 GB of memory and can run 512 virtual machines simultaneously. I received some feedback asking me to compare this against...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on September 18, 2007.

Installing Virtual Server R2 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 Beta 3

Virtualization Nation, If you’re trying to run Virtual Server R2 SP1 on Window Server 2008 Beta 3, it does work. However, there are three steps for success. You need to: Add the IIS role with the correct settings for Virtual Server....

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on September 18, 2007.

Virtualization: Big Opportunities

Hello, I’m Larry Orecklin, general manager at Microsoft focused on the System Center family of management products and Virtualization. If you picked up a newspaper in the last few weeks, you are more than likely aware that the virtualization industry...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on September 18, 2007.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager: Huge Announcements!

Hi - this is Chris Stirrat and I run the team that built System Center Virtual Machine Manager (also known as SCVMM or “Carmine”).  I very excited to share a couple of HUGE announcements with everyone around virtualization and SCVMM. First - I...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on September 18, 2007.