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SQL Server is a Great Workload to Consolidate on Microsoft Virtualization

Tue, 01/26/2010 - 21:51 — SystemCenterTeam

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.

Hyper-V Network Command Line Tool NVSPBIND Now Available Externally

Tue, 01/26/2010 - 08:51 — porourke


Hello all,


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I’m Paul Despe and I work as a program manager on the Microsoft Hyper-V team.


 


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Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V iSCSI Performance Webcast

Wed, 01/13/2010 - 11:20 — SystemCenterTeam

My friend and teammate Jim Schwartz on our Virtualization Solutions Marketing Team has asked me to post this entry about a very exciting webcast coming up, but he can describe it much better than me...

Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool v2.1

Thu, 12/10/2009 - 23:20 — porourke

Virtualization affects how we plan, build, deploy, operate, and service workloads.  Customers are creating large libraries of virtual machines containing various configurations.

City of Frisco (Texas) saves big with Hyper-V and NetApp

Wed, 12/02/2009 - 07:52 — porourke


Hi, I'm Jim Schwartz, a director of

Re-blog: Microsoft Site Recovery Solution Launch

Wed, 11/04/2009 - 15:27 — porourke

I'm re-blogging here. Over at Virt Planet blog, Jim wrote the following:



This week Microsoft is launching a comprehensive solution to help customers implement cost effective, end-to-end site recovery programs.

RemoteApp + Hyper-V + Windows XP / Vista

Thu, 12/17/2009 - 18:15 — Virtual PC Guy

The Remote Desktop team just did an interesting post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2009/12/15/remoteapp-for-hyper-v.aspx About the RemoteApp for Hyper-V functionality that is available with Windows Server 2008 R2. 

The different ways to compact a disk

Mon, 12/14/2009 - 17:08 — Virtual PC Guy

Today if you want to compact a virtual hard disk – you can use Virtual PC / Virtual Server / Hyper-V or Windows 7.  But not all methods are the same.  Under the covers there are two different approaches that are taken to compacting virtual hard disks: Virtual PC / Virtual Server: Perform a blind “block level” compaction.  Here the virtual hard disk is inspected at a block level, and when a block is found which is full of zeroes, the block is removed from the virtual hard disk.

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