On Scott Schnoll's weblog " Is this thing on? " Scott provides details on the support for Exchange Server 2007 in Hyper-V hosted guest OS as outlined in a TechEd 2008 session earlier this month. Some key points of his post: Within 60 days of Hyper-V's RTM, the Exchange team will publish...
In case you wonder how mature virtualization technology from Microsoft, namely Hyper-V, is, you should sign up for the upcoming life TechNet webcast "How Microsoft does IT: Management and Operations in Windows Server 2008". But be warned, this is a level 300 session and you should expect some...
Ben just pointed to a page on AMD's website containing valuable processor related tools for free download. The one of importance here is obviously an " AMD Virtualization™ Technology and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ System Compatibility Check Utility." Who said only Microsoft comes...
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Best thing you can do to a Mac Mini? No, wait, certainly not the right way to start this post. I am going prepare a Mac Mini in such a way that you will be able to install a 2 or more node HPC cluster and a head node. Once you followed the steps outlined in the videos you will be able to install a fully...
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YES, RC0 of the Microsoft virtualization solution Hyper-V is available for download. John Howard has an excellent and extensive blog post about the details. Please pay close attention to his post and read 'til the end before you install the bits! It is important to follow the steps outlines in John's...
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These days there's a lot of talk in the industry about cloud computing. This is no different inside Microsoft. The hallways are full of "cloud talk" and "could action". I guess we will see quite some impressive announcements and products coming over the next months and beyond...
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As always, Andrew beat me on this one too. Jose Barreto, he's technical evangelist in the storage team, posted a blog entry about "Storage options for Windows Server 2008's Hyper-V." Very nice, very complete. Content Exposing storage to the host VHD or offline disk on the host IDE or...
Mike Otey from Windows IT Pro took a look at our next generation virtualization product. Looks like he's pretty impressed. My favorite: "... Hyper-V, is a significant new competitor that has the potential to change the market." You'll find the article in the Feb issue and an excerpt...
What else to say? Let the fun begin or - like Patrick says - "We’re bringing the joy of the holidays back to you with the “12 Days of Virt-Mas.”
Ben kept word . Yesterday he started his "Week of Hyper-V Scripts".