System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Do you want to know how Microsoft IT does Virtualization?

2010-02-18T17:24:19Z

Come to the TechDays 2010 and attend the following session: Virtualization in Microsoft IT Lessons learned in 5 years of implementing Microsoft’s virtualization platform and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, driving from 5 pilot Virtual Server 2005 hosts to 1100 virtualization hosts with 7000 Hyper-V guests. The changes in the computing hardware, storage solutions and Networking implementations. And what we envision for the next two years....(read more)

Video New Efficiency: Introduction to Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2 with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 - Dutch

2009-11-07T10:04:00Z

This session focuses on the new capabilities of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.

We will also covers the base architecture of Hyper-V and provides guidance on key areas high availability, live migration, deployment and managing your virtual infrastructure using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.

TechNet: Join us at the Server and Client Virtualization day to learn more about Microsoft's virtualization technology.

2009-11-05T22:14:00Z

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TechNet Event: Learn how to use Virtualization from the Desktop to the Datacenter

Using products that span the desktop to the data center, you can bring capacities online in real-time, as needed; streamline and provision applications, services and data on-demand; accelerate backup and recovery, and enhance availability so that your users are well protected against system failure and service interruptions.

This event will consist out of two tracks one for Data Center Virtualization and one for Desktop Virtualization.

Following technologies will be covered:

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization
Application Virtualization
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Windows Server 2008 R2 - Hyper-V
System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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TechNet Event: Learn how to use Virtualization from the Desktop to the Datacenter

2009-10-31T13:58:03Z

TechNet Event: Learn how to use Virtualization from the Desktop to the Datacenter Using products that span the desktop to the data center, you can bring capacities online in real-time, as needed; streamline and provision applications, services and data on-demand; accelerate backup and recovery, and enhance availability so that your users are well protected against system failure and service interruptions. This event will consist out of two tracks one for Data Center Virtualization and one for Desktop...(read more)

Updated virtualization guides: Windows Server Virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

2009-09-29T08:42:45Z

Updated virtualization guides: Windows Server Virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server® 2008 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, outline the critical infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation of these virtualization products. The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Windows Server Virtualization takes the reader through the process of...(read more)

System Center Virtual Machine Manager: Updated IPD Guides

2009-09-25T15:55:12Z

Hey All, Microsoft has announced updated IPD Guides for SCVMM. You can find more information here: http://blogs.technet.com/technet_flash_feed/archive/2009/09/24/get-the-updated-infrastructure-planning-and-design-guides-for-virtualization-and-system-center.aspx The download can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/ee395430.aspx?SA_CE=VIRT-IPD-BLOG-SCVMM-2009-09-21 Cheers, Mike...(read more)

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and 2008 R2 Configuration Analyzer VMMCA

2009-09-18T17:25:34Z

Hey All,

Microsoft just released the new VMMCA for vmm 2008 and vmm 2008 r2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=02d83950-c03d-454e-803b-96d1c1d5be24&displaylang=en

Brief Description

Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and 2008 R2 Configuration Analyzer (VMMCA) is a diagnostic tool that you can use to evaluate important configuration settings for computers that either are serving or might serve VMM roles or other VMM functions.

Important

You must install and run the VMMCA on the computer that either currently is or will become your VMM 2008 server.
You should use this version of the VMMCA with VMM 2008 and VMM 2008 R2 only. To download the VMMCA for VMM 2007, go tohttp://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=132136.

The VMMCA is a diagnostic tool you can use to evaluate important configuration settings for computers that either are serving or might serve VMM roles or other VMM functions. The VMMCA scans the hardware and software configurations of the computers you specify, evaluates them against a set of predefined rules, and then provides you with error messages and warnings for any configurations that are not optimal for the VMM role or other VMM function that you have specified for the computer.

I will soon post a blog about the results of the VMMCA.

Thanks,

Alexandre Verkinderen

Session video Clustering and live migration with Hyper-V server R2 by Arlindo Alves

2009-09-17T16:56:00Z

You want to make sure your Virtual machine are always up and running ? Come to this session and see for yourself how simple it is to make a Hyper-V Cluster,Live migrate Virtual Workloads and best of all: how you can do it for free !

Speaker:

Arlindo Alves started his career as an ICT consultant at a Microsoft Partner, with a strong focus and recognized expertise in server based computing. Today, Arlindo is an IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft Belgium & Luxembourg, focusing on the next wave of technology innovations. As part of the IT Pro team he works closely with the technical community and maintains his own blog at http://blogs.technet.com/aralves

Session video about Windows Server Virtualization by Arlindo Alves

2009-09-17T16:47:00Z

Speaker:

Arlindo Alves
Microsoft

Windows Server Virtualization (Dutch)

Deze live meeting geeft u een grondig inzicht in de nieuwe virtualisatietechnologieën, zoals Hyper-V V2. Daarnaast bespreken we ook de nieuwe boot vanuit VHD-functionaliteit en hoe u VHD gemakkelijk native kunt creëren, monteren en gebruiken in Windows Server 2008 R2. We eindigen de presentatie met een overzicht van de nieuwe capaciteiten in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.

Windows Server Virtualization (French)

Cette session live meeting vous présente en détail les nouvelles technologies de virtualisation, y compris Hyper-V V2. Nous aborderons également le nouveau principe d’initialisation à partir de la fonction VHD et expliquerons comment créer, monter et utiliser facilement VHD en mode natif dans Windows Server 2008 R2. Nous terminerons cette présentation par une vue d’ensemble des nouvelles fonctions offertes par System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 MPSRPT Tool

2009-09-17T08:01:37Z

Hey All, Microsoft has released the Product Support Reporting Tool for SCVMM2008 and 2008R2 Use the MPS Reporting Tool to gather detailed system status and configuration information from the Virtual Machine Manager server of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 or 2008 R2 server as well as from all managed virtual machine hosts, library servers, and physical to virtual conversion (P2V) source computers. This version of the MPS Reporting Tool collects gathers data to help Microsoft Support Professionals diagnose...(read more)

MVUG Event Securing Hyper-V

2009-09-07T17:49:00Z

Securing Hyper-V (with the Winsec User Group)

Date and time: THURSDAY 1st October 2009, start at 18u30 until around 21u00.
Event Location: Microsoft BELUX - Corporate Village - Leonardo Da Vincilaan 3 - B-1935 Zaventem
Entry: Free
Registration: send a mail to benoit@mvug.be
Focus: with the rising popularity of virtualization, it is time to start thinking about how you secure your virtual environment. During this presentation, best practices for securing a virtual environment based on Microsoft’s Hyper-V are discussed, both from the angle of the Hyper-V host as from the angle of the guests. Further it will be shown how you can use Authorization Manager (AzMan) to provide role-based access control for Hyper-V, separating host administrators from guest administrators and precisely delegating control to them, which will also be shown using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SC VMM).

More information can be found on the MVUG site http://mvug.be/content/Events.aspx

System Center Virtual Machine Manager: Hosts having 0kb free memory

2009-08-29T17:24:42Z

Hey All, One of the big issues with SCVMM 2008 for me was that the memory available on the hosts is not correct. If you are running quite a large environment with a lot of virtual machines, it is difficult to know how many you have left. You can of course start calculating it manually but… ;-) So here’s a screenshot of the problem As you can see, all my hosts are giving zero kb free of memory. That’s not exactly correct Here’s how to solve this one: On each host that has this problem...(read more)

Writing PRO Enabled Management Packs

2009-08-27T12:55:00Z

Microsoft has just published a guide building a simple PRO-enabled management pack for Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. This document gives an overview of creating PRO-enabled management packs and walks you through the steps required to create a simple PRO-enabled management pack.

Download here.

Alexandre Verkinderen

Virtual Machine Manager 2008: Cost Center

2009-07-17T10:21:47Z

Hey All, One of the nice things in Virtual Machine Manager is the Cost Center feature. Although this seems like “just another field in the database”, it can come in handy when you need to prove to your management which business unit is using what resources. Or, if the servers are used for certain projects, you can prove which project is using what. This can be handy when you need more hardware and the management asks a prove if you are using everything you’ve got ;-) In my example...(read more)

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 RC public release available

2009-06-07T05:52:02Z

The product team just announced that SCVMM 2008 R2 is publicly released. Have a look at my previous post to know what changes in SCVMM 2008 R2 You can download SCVMM 2008 R2 from connect.microsoft.com...(read more)

Microsoft Virtualization User Group Meeting – May 28th

2009-05-19T14:11:00Z

The Belgian Microsoft Virtualization User Group organizes their second get together on May 28th and will talk about following topics: Hyper-V scripting (Part2) - PowerShell So, you want to Script Hyper-V ? After the April session where we discussed WMI and Hyper-v, you can come to this session and you will discover how to use the James O’Neill's created library: PSHyperv. What's new Hyper-V R2 and SCVMM 2008 R2 What are the new features of Hyper-V R2 and VMM 2008 R2 ? Come to this session...(read more)

What’s coming in SCVMM 2008 R2 (RC)?

2009-05-16T13:35:42Z

While SCVMM 2008 R2 is still in Beta the team is quietly working on improvements for the Release Candidate. There are some great new features coming up: Storage Migration where you will be able to migrate the storage of a VM within the same host or towards a new host. There will be some downtime but typical it will be less than 2 mins. Further will you be able to do storage Vmotion on VMWare hosts. Live Migration queuing allows you to do multiple live migration from one server. VMM will detect...(read more)

IT Infrastructure Software Spotlight – SCVMM and the cloud

2009-05-12T15:18:46Z

Technology preview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager which is capable of managing Virtual Machines hosted in the cloud....(read more)

Slide decks: Windows Server Virtualization & Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

2009-04-28T09:01:08Z

Technorati Tags: SCVMM 2008 R2 , Hyper-V , Windows Server 2008 R2 Last week I had the opportunity to present at the Windays in Opitija in Croatia. The first presentation is about the Windows Server Virtualization technology Hyper-V. In this deck I focus onto the new features of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server Virtualization - Hyper-V 2008 R2 View more presentations from aralves . In the second presentation I’ve talked about System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. With VMM2008...(read more)

Microsoft Mythbusters: Top 10 VMWare Myths

2009-04-03T13:39:11Z

Microsoft Mythbusters: Top 10 VMware Myths...(read more)

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Cmdlet Reference

2009-04-01T00:30:00Z

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Nice,

Microsoft just released vmm 2008 cmdlet reference.....and it's about 442 pages long!

Have fun!

Abstract:

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 is a server application that you can use to manage virtual machines on a variety of virtualization platforms. As an alternative to using the VMM Administrator Console to administer your Virtual Machine Manager environment, you can use the cmdlets in the Windows PowerShell - Virtual Machine Manager command shell, which is an administrator-focused command-line shell. This document provides the Help topics for the VMM 2008 cmdlets.

(Please visit the site to view this media)

Grtz,

Alexandre Verkinderen

What is VMM 2008 R2 Beta and what are its new capabilities?

2009-03-13T22:37:18Z

VMM 2008 R2 Beta is a comprehensive management solution for virtualized infrastructure that takes advantage of many of the great new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta including: Live Migration: Enables the movement of running virtual machines from one virtual host to another with no downtime. Clustered Shared Volumes: Helps enable Live Migration and eliminates the previous one LUN per virtual machine requirement thus simplifying SAN administration. Hot addition/removal of storage: Allows the...(read more)

Free E-Learning Collection on Virtualization

2009-02-20T10:53:52Z

This newly-released collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the Microsoft suite of Virtualization products. Collection 6333 includes four two-hour clinics, covering Hyper-V and Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, and Microsoft Application Virtualization. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/6333.mspx Technorati Tags: Virtualization , App-V , SCVMM 2008 , Hyper-V , Terminal Services...(read more)

Hyper-V: Virtual Machine Bus cannot find enough resources

2008-12-15T08:14:45Z

A few weeks ago my colleague installed Hyper-V onto her laptop and she copied one of her Virtual Machines onto this server. When she booted the server there where some issues with the virtual machine, the main issue was that the vmbus technology was not available. After a bit of troubleshooting I find out where the problem was. I’ve looked into the device manager and saw that the Virtual Machine bus failed to load. In the details pane of this device you can see the following error: The device cannot...(read more)

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.2 Release for Beta!

2008-10-29T07:43:19Z

Many of our customers do not know what computers are in their IT environment or what applications have been deployed. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 3.2 Beta makes it easier for customers and partners to quickly identify what servers, workstations, and network devices are in their IT environment. MAP also makes specific and actionable IT proposals and reports to help customers get the most value out of Microsoft products and infrastructure. Over 500,000 Microsoft customers...(read more)

SCVMM 2008 IS RTM!

2008-10-21T21:24:00Z

System Center Virtual Machine manager is RTM! Microsoft made an announcement today on theire website!

Microsoft is pleased to announce the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 – the next generation of Microsoft’s solution for managing the virtualized infrastructure. A key member of System Center – a centralized, enterprise-class suite of data center management products -- Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 enables customers to configure and deploy new virtual machines and centrally manage physical and virtual infrastructure from one console. New to this version of VMM is multi-vendor virtualization platform support, Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) and enhanced support of “high availability” host clusters, among other new features.

You can donwload an evaluation version here.

Greetz,

Alexandre

http://scug.be/blogs

Interesting Virtualization links

2008-09-24T12:54:20Z

Whilst preparing for the TechNet Virtualization roadshow I came across some interesting links to help me with the configuration of the integration of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 . Opsmgr 2007 Management Pack for Windows Server 2008: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3529D233-5E3E-4B51-8F66-5D6F27005EC3&displaylang=en How to integrate SCVMM and Opsmgr 2007: Please follow the following blogposts to integrate both...(read more)

TechEd IT Professional EMEA: Windows Server Track

2008-09-23T16:14:51Z

With the TechEd IT Professional EMEA coming closer I wanted to start share some of the top sessions in different tracks in this first post I will share with you what I think will be the 5 best rated or attended sessions in my track: Windows Server 2008R2 Hyper-V: Feature Dive Want to get a sneak peek at what’s new in Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 R2? This session focuses on the new capabilities of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. The session also covers the base architecture of Hyper...(read more)

October Edition of TechNet Magazine Online

2008-09-17T13:58:00Z

Virtualization: An Introduction to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 The introduction of Hyper-V makes virtualization an even more compelling solution for IT environments. Get an overview of today’s virtualization market and see how Hyper-V improves the manageability, reliability, and security of virtualization. Virtualization: Manage Your Virtual Environments with VMM 2008 System Center Virtual Machine Manager provides a consolidated interface for managing your virtual infrastructure. The latest...(read more)

“Get Virtual Now” Launch event with Demo of “Live Migration”

2008-09-08T13:34:45Z

Later tonight we will officially launch our new virtualization products with the “Get Virtual Now” campaign but the news is on the web now. Now you can virtualize from the data center to the desktop, and manage with the same tools you're already using for your physical infrastructure. Here are some excerpt of the press release: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, a new hypervisor-based server virtualization product, will be released within 30 days and be available at no cost via the Web. Microsoft...(read more)

TechDays are coming to Luxembourg

2008-09-08T06:00:00Z

The “TechDays 08” are coming to Luxembourg on Sept 30th, the registration for this event is open. It’s a free event organized by the MS Belux team so be quick to register as places are limited. During this event you will have the possibility to choose between two tracks one track for developers and one for IT Pro’s. In the IT Pro track we will have Vista SP1 Deployment , Group Policy Preferences and a SQL 2008 session. We will finish the day with three Virtualization sessions which will help you...(read more)

How to Enable Reporting in Virtual Machine Manager 2007

2008-08-16T08:34:42Z

This week I imported the virtual management pack in our opsmgr. Now I wanted to see my Opmsgr reports from my vmm 2007 console.

Based on the info on technet this is the procedure the configure your vmm for reporting:

Use the following procedure to enable reporting in Virtual Machine Manager after you deploy the Server Virtualization Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007, set up your report server in Operations Manager, and have the Operations Manager administrator add you to the Report Operator role in Operations Manager. For more information about deploying the Management Pack, see Setting Up Reporting.

Until you perform this procedure, Reporting view is not displayed and reports are not available in the Virtual Machine Manager Administrator Console.

To enable reporting in Virtual Machine Manager

1. In Administration view, click Settings in the navigation pane, and then, in the results pane, click Reporting Settings.

2. In the Actions pane, under Settings, click Modify.

3. To enable reporting, in the Reporting Settings dialog box:

a. Select the Enable reporting check box.

b. Specify the URL for the Operations Manager report server in the following format: http://<OpsMgrReportServer>/reportserver, where <OpsMgrReportServer> is the name of your report server and /reportserver is the default name of the report server virtual directory.

4. To add Reporting view to the Administrator Console, close and reopen the console.

5. To display Reporting view, click the Reporting button beneath the navigation pane.

6. To display the Virtual Machine Manager reports, click Reports in the navigation pane.

The results pane lists the Virtual Machine Manager reports. If you do not see any reports, you might not have been added to the Report Operator role in Operations Manager. Contact your Operations Manager administrator to arrange this.

Grtz,

Alexandre Verkinderen

http://scug.be/blogs

TechNet Spotlight: TechEd IT Professionals 2008 Videos

2008-08-06T10:02:00Z

TechEd IT Professionals 2008- Available Videos TechEd IT Professionals 2008 Event Page: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/event.aspx?id=104 Links to Session Videos: Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics CRM , Susan Sauls Intro to SQL Server Data Services , Soumitra Sengupta The Spy Who Hacked Me! , Alex Smolen, Rudolph Araujo How Microsoft SQL Server Helps You to Lower Your Cost of Storage, Torsten Grabs Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: Overview , Edwin Yuen Advances Microsoft...(read more)

Virtualization Solution Accelerators

2008-08-06T03:15:00Z

Here is a list of the different Virtualization Solution Accelerators we have at Microsoft: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 for Hyper-V and App-V - http://www.microsoft.com/MAP Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Hyper-V, App-V and SCVMM 2008 http://www.microsoft.com/IPD Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc501231.aspx Security Compliance Management Tool http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc677002.aspx Windows Server 2008...(read more)

Updating your Virtual Machines and SCVMM to support Hyper-V RTM

2008-07-09T16:40:35Z

Today I finally found the time to update my demo environment which was still based on Hyper-V RC0 and SCVMM 2008 Beta. I want to share all the steps needed to perform the upgrade and updates. My demo environment consists out of 3 physical servers, one dc and two Hyper-V machines all in the same domain. My SCVMM 2008 Beta is running as a virtual machine on Hyper-V. First of all I’ve deleted all my snapshots and then updated my Hyper-V machines to RTM by installing the KB950050 which is now available...(read more)

Presenting @ KulenDayz

2008-06-23T04:41:30Z

Last Saturday I presented at an event in Croatia called KulenDayz (aka Cool’n’days). Kind of funny to present at a Sausage (salami) event. Sausage? Yes Kulen means sausage and actually it’s a local spicy sausage, tastes nice. This event is organized by the community for the community. So my journey towards Croatia started with a short flight to Zagreb where I spent a few hours into the Microsoft office. Then we had to travel for almost 4 hours towards the event location in Beli Manastir . I really...(read more)

SCVMM 2008 Beta – Hotfix for Hyper-V RC1

2008-06-10T15:54:26Z

Install this update to enable Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta (VMM) to function with Release Candidate 1 (RC1) to the Hyper-V role. After you install this update, you may have to restart your computer. Once you have installed this update, it cannot be removed Download: http://connect.microsoft.com Note: Before installing this hotfix your Hyper-V needs to be RC1. With this update you cannot manage Hyper-V RC0 hosts. Technorati Tags: Virtualization , Hyper-V , SCVMM 2008...(read more)

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition evaluation VHD's

2008-06-09T13:29:07Z

Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Enterprise Edition and Server Core Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images are now available for Hyper-V and Virtual Server Download the Hyper-V VHD's from here Download the Virtual Server VHD's from here Technorati Tags: Hyper-V , Virtual Server , Windows Server 2008 , Virtualization...(read more)

Hyper-V RC1 released

2008-05-21T05:51:07Z

Earlier this week we released the Hyper-V RC1 package to the connect.microsoft.com site. What has been improved: In addition to bug fixes and stability improvements we also made some additional changes largely based on feedback from customers Integration Components For Windows Server 2008 guest’s included in Integration Services Setup Disk New Graphics for Hyper-V Manager and Virtual Machine Connection – including a “Now” icon in the snapshot pane IPv4 Address Migration - when creating a new Virtual...(read more)

Installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta Part II

2008-04-29T18:59:00Z

In the first part of this blogpost I’ve explained how you can install and what to expect during the installation of the server components of SCVMM 2008 Beta. Now we are going through the Console installation ( not much to go through though) and I’ll show how to add a Hyper-V host to SCVMM both using the console or by using PowerShell. First you install the console and here again it’s very straightforward. First we show you some legal license terms, do a prerequisite check and ask for the installation...(read more)

Installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta Part I

2008-04-29T18:10:00Z

As I mentioned in me previous post System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 Beta is available for download and as a coincidence (believe it or not but it's true) I installed the bits today to test this new management tool. The installation process of SCVMM is very straightforward during the setup you have 4 different options you can Install in this post we will focus on the Server and Administration tool, furthermore I’ll show some screenshot's on how to add a Hyper-V host machine...(read more)

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta available

2008-04-29T17:40:52Z

It has been announced at MMS conference during Bob Muglia his keynote System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta is publicly available at the connect site. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 enables customers to configure and deploy new virtual machines and to centrally manage their virtualized infrastructure, whether running on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 or VMware ESX Server. When used in conjunction with the broad System Center management suite, customers...(read more)

Notes From the Field: Virtualization Strategy @ the customer

2008-02-11T14:00:10Z

Last week I gave a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 session for a Belgian partner and I had the opportunity to talk to some of the IT Pro's who attended my session and here is an excerpt of a mail I received from one of those IT Professionals who relies on our Technology to run their infrastructure. Following your presentation and our discussion, I would like to provide you with more information on my current virtualization strategy & projects : Strategy A resources optimization...(read more)

Hyper-V Network Switch

2008-02-01T22:25:08Z

Hyper-V is changing the way networking works if you compare it to Virtual Server. Today I was reconfiguring my Hyper-V server and suddenly I've lost my RDP connection. Why did I lost my connection to the server? Well I was reconfiguring the networking settings and I wanted to add a network adapter to all my existing Virtual Machines. I created a new network which I called the external network because it was bound to my physical network interface. The moment I clicked on apply the connection was...(read more)

Notes From the field: Virtualization, Data Protection Manager and Operations Manager

2008-01-31T19:35:42Z

As promised I'm writing another post about what feedback I receive from our IT Pro's in the IT Pro Momentum Program . Hyper-V: Installing W2K8 and Hyper-V was very easy. We’re heavily using Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 and Virtual Machine Manager, and there’s virtually no learning curve in moving to the new version. Testing of one machine proved that it functioned as expected. However, it’s only one piece in the puzzle, and with our previous solution, Virtual...(read more)