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As many of you are using Hyper-V to host Exchange, SQL and Sharepoint, I'm sure many of you think about backup and recovery of those workloads. If you do, then you'll be interested to read Jason's blog post in honor of Data Privacy Day, which is today if you didn't already have parties planned ;-).

This is an interesting idea -- instead of running puppet in traditional client-server mode where the configuration is pushed from the server, replacing the puppetmaster server with a git repository, and let the managed servers pull their configs from git. 

Yesterday, Vipul Shah, a Senior Product Manager with the Virtualization Team, guest posted on Virtualization Planet about how Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and System Center is a great platform for running SQL Server consolidated workloads.

Hello all,

Hi, my name is Chris Steffen, architect with Kroll Factual Data.

This morning Microsoft and HP announced a three-year, $250 million agreement to jointly deliver a new infrastructure-to-application model, advance cloud computing and generally reduce the costs and complexities of IT.

Hi All,

We have seen many VMsafe questions on other forums. Please join VMware and Altor to understand what are VMsafe APIs and how solutions like Altor VF integrate with them to make the virtual infrastructure more secure than their physical counterpart.

http://www.vmware.com/a/webcasts/details/269

Thank you,
Poornima

To enable the new functionality of Import/Export we now have new ‘Ex’ versions of the Import/Export APIs along with settings data objects that allow the user to tweak the necessary parameters upon export or import:

Export:

Before you run an export, you can get the export parameters associated with a VM in the form of a settings data object. They are populated with default values.