Recently, several sources have speculated as to whether or not Microsoft is planning to purchase Citrix. Some sources said that Microsoft would buy Citrix before VMware’s VMworld Conference, but clearly that did not happen. However, it is thought that an announcement, if at all, might be made in the next few days.
This raises the question…why? [...]
Remember those days of needing to defrag Windows machines? Oh wait… those days are still with us. And now the situation is worse with virtual machines and the disk mapping between the guest and host.
Well… Diskeeper has announced that their Diskeeper 2008 product has been certified by Microsoft for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. It will [...]
Microsoft announced today that it will eliminate its licensing restrictions that prevented customers from being able to move its virtual applications to a different virtual server more than once every 90 days. This is important as the world moves closer and closer to being hardware agnostic. Prior to today, it was technically neccessary for administrators [...]
With the recent release of Hyper-V, Microsoft is full steam ahead on it’s virtualization strategy. There new catch-phrase/tagline is “getVIRTUALnow“. They will be officially kicking things off with the official Microsoft Virtualization Launch in Bellevue, Washington on September 8th.
Check out the details and register now if you will be in WA next month!
Although no details [...]
I know that I had some problems getting it up and running and from what I have heard/read, I’m not alone. I found a good article that outlines exactly what it takes to get Suse Enterprise Linux 10 SP1 up and running on Microsoft Hyper-V.
http://www.itcomparison.com/blg/virtualization/
hyper-v-suse-linux-enterprise-10-and-component-integration.html
The question is… should it really be this complicated?
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Patch management is a hot topic in the virtual community right now. VMWare has its new Update Manager tool which starts to address how to keep VM libraries patched and up-to-date with the same ease as physical, always-on hardware.
Microsoft has debuted Beta 1 on Microsoft Connect of its solution to address the same problem [...]
With Server 2008 going RTM last week, Microsoft is now on the clock to deliver the long awaited Hyper-V. They have told us we should see a finished product within 180 days from the Server 2008 launch (coming early March). Stay tuned for some in-depth reviews of the Hyper-V RC leading up to the release.
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For those who missed it, find all of the specifics of the Micrsoft Hyper-V announcement back in November here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/nov07/11-12HyperVPR.mspx
Topics of particular interest are Micrsoft’s pricing plans for Hyper-V as well as the details about their Server Virtualization Validation Program. ISV’s can begin taking advantage of this program beginning in June 2008 according to [...]