As we hear a lot about the buzzword Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008, scheduled to RTM soon in coming few months, just thought of exploring on this technology and what are the possible enhancements in this technology we can expect. As there are not too many documents / white papers currently available, we need to [...]

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Finally after the long wait, here is the day. A Day more for the Global Launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008. Promotions happening very aggressively all over and here in India too. The events here are happening in 3 cities: Bangalore (4th March), Mumbai (5th March), and New Delhi [...]

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We know about the Windows Server Virtualization (WSV) being included with the release of Windows Server 2008 RC0, which was previously codenamed “Viridian”. Recently at the TechEd IT Forum 2007 in Barcelona, Microsoft announced the detailed packaging, pricing and licensing information for Windows Server 2008 which also included Microsoft’s server virtualization technology for stand-alone virtualization server named [...]

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After the latest announcement from Microsoft on the release of Windows Server 2008 RC0 that included its new hypervisor based virtualization technology, Windows Server virtualization (WSV) codename “Viridian”, I just thought of digging in and finding out a little more about it.
Jeff posted the WSV Customer Technology Preview (CTP) Setup Guide.

WSV Customer Technology Preview (CTP) [...]

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As Microsoft released the Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 for Customer Review, I just decided to speed-link to all the important and related latest updates:
FTP7 for Windows Server 2008 RC0
Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 RC0
Windows Web Server 2008 RC0
Windows Server 2008 RC0 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2008 RC0 for Itanium-based Systems
Windows Server 2008 RC0 [...]

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The wait is over. I have been blogging about the Virtualization products  by Microsoft and also got some ready reference. I also mentioned about the long awaited Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (code named “Carmine”). Now it is finally here. Microsoft has officially announced the release of SCVMM through their Virtualization Team Blog.
There are 4 [...]

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Microsoft Connect has updated a new program Offline Patch management for VM’s (Codename-Himalaya) under Solution Accelerators. You can apply now if you are registered with Connect and the grace period for participation ends September 9th. Till then they are collecting feedbacks to get the customers requirements in offling patching of Virtual machines after which Microsoft [...]

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Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 is released and now available for download. Here are few of the updates made in SP1

Support for Hardware-Assisted Virtualization (Both Intel VT and AMD V)
Support for additional guest and host operating systems
Support for more than 64 virtual machines on x64 hosts. Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 now supports up to [...]

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