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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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Ok the Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta is now available for public download… Take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/R2-Beta.aspx for all of the information. Or here’s the direct link to the download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=85cfe4c9-34de-477c-b5ca-75edae3d57c5&DisplayLang=en
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Unless you’ve been under a rock all day you know that Windows 7 Beta was announced and released last night – along with Windows 7 Beta we also announced and released Server 2008 R2 (formally known as Windows 7 Server). If you have an MSDN subscription
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As some of you might know Seattle had a rough few weeks with snow – for some parts of the country a few back to back 4”-6” snow storms isn’t a big deal but in Seattle it’s a “snow event”… Well the day before it started snowing my internet at home
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Day 2 started off with Ray’s talking about the convergence of the conventional pc platform and the internet, cloud, devices. He quickly handed the floor over to Steve Sinofsky who almost immediately handed to the floor to Julie Larson-Green (VP
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Day 1 has come and gone by the time I got back to my hotel last night I was pretty much dead on my feet. I had to miss the keynote to finish configuring my demo machines and put the finishing touches on my slides. I also realized yesterday
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I flew in on Saturday and I think the flight was about 90% Microsoft employees including Mike Swanson – so the migration has begun. I got in rented a car and got checked in to my hotel, I am staying at the Hilton Checkers hotel in downtown
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Wow it’s almost time… For the past 20 weeks or so I have been getting an email from Mike or one of the other PDC planners with titles like PDC2008 T-20 Weeks, PDC2008 T-10 Weeks, PDC2008 T-5 Weeks, PDC2008 T-02 Weeks and I know what’s coming on Monday!
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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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Seriously are you? Today it was announced that in addition to Ray Ozzie and Rick Rashid they have added Bob Muglia (who demo’ed Live Migration last time he was on stage – what’s he going to show this time?) and they have added Steve Sinofsky to
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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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Today is the launch for Microsoft Virtualization including Hyper-V. I will be attending parts of the launch event (unfortunately I have a few other commitments in Redmond so I can’t stay for the whole event). I will post any major news at
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