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Virtualization Review posted the results of a performance shootout between Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESX, and Citrix XenServer… The launched three tests against the various platforms. First was a small number of heavy workload systems,
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Last night Mike Neil posted to the Virtualization Team Blog regarding a new agreement between Microsoft and Red Hat to bring Red Hat guest support to Hyper-V. Take a look at Mike’s full blog post Microsoft and Red Hat Cooperative Technical Support
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IDC released a report this morning entitled “Virtualization Continues to See Strong Growth in Second Quarter, According to IDC”… Among the data they report Virtualization licence shipments in Q2 of 2008 increased 53% year over year. Vmware
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You can now download Microsoft Hyper-V Server for free from Microsoft Download center. It’s pretty cool take a look (after all it’s free). Download Links: English | Chinese Traditional (ZH-TW) | All Other Languages Taylor Brown Hyper-V Integration
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There is a newly released update for Hyper-V that will increase the support limit from 16 logical processors (cores) to 24 logical processors! Since we support up to eight virtual processors for every one logical processor (8:1 over subscription)
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Yesterday was the official launch for Hyper-V. I was able to attend a good chunk of the day and there was a lot of excitement around Hyper-V and more about the direction and the future of Virtualization. If you missed the event a lot of the content
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The Microsoft marketing team has setup a Virtualization blog RSS aggregator at http://www.virtualizationfeed.com … They are syndicating the first part of every post related to Virtualization, Hyper-V, SCVMM etc… from ‘the most knowledgeable bloggers on
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I had a Microsoft partner ask me about SQL and Exchange support on Hyper-V earlier today – being that when I say something it’s “Microsoft said…” I had to find the official KB/TechNet articles to refer to. Well after spending about 20 minutes searching
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Hyper-V WMI Documentation First off I am happy to say the Hyper-V WMI documentation is finally post beta quality! I want to personally thank a few members of the test team for writing much of the sample code and working very hard to get it posted.
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Hyper-V will be well represented at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this year. Additional sessions where posted today ( http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Agenda/Sessions.aspx ) and they include two Hyper-V sessions. The first is Developing
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I've been a little light on content the last few weeks (the post RTM hangover is stating to fade finally)... But luckily my collogues have been active with some great content. Take a look. HyperVoria http://hypervoria.com/hyper-v Hyper-V
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Ben Armstrong (Virtual PC Guy) told me about this today… Tore Lervik just released version 2.2 of it on Saturday. I played around with it and it’s pretty cool… Anyone that is monitoring a few servers would definitely find this useful. Check it out
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There are many many blog posts by different people on this but I still get the questions pretty often – “ Will my <Random Computer Manufacture> <Random Computer Model> run Hyper-V? ” Hyper-V requires processor virtualization extensions
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