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VHD compatibility between Hyper-V and Virtual Server

Honestly I was shocked when I read John's recent post about " Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC? " Hestarts off with some "No, not supported" cases and I almost immediately started felling nauseous. Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:01 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Virtualization Starter

TechRepublic published an article about the" 10 things you should know about virtualization." If you are new to the whole virtualization thing, it will certainly get you started. The author, Debra Littlejohn Shinder, is right, "Virtualization is a huge Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:51 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Series of Virtualization Podcasts on InfoWorld

A series for five short and comprehensive podcasts will be published on InfoWorld's blog. This week the first has been posted. Below some info about the complete series. The podcasts can be found here . Podcast Descriptions Episode One : Top Virtualization Read More...
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 3:54 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Hafnium helps increasing performance of virtual environments

On Nov 11th Intel already announced a "Fundamental Advance in Transistor Design," extending  Moore's Law and therefore computing performance. You find the full press announcement here . Why's it important in the context of virtualization? Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:40 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

One of the largest Virtualization conferences

One of the largest Virtualization conferences of the industry seems to happen this week in Barcelona, Spain. Microsoft Teched IT Forum . Obviously not a pure virtualization conference but the Microsoft technical event for IT professionals. But if you Read More...
Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 3:26 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Series of Webcasts and chats on Windows Server Virtualization

TechNet Webcast: Virtualization and Windows Server 2008 Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time The new Windows Server Virtualization infrastructure will be a core feature in Windows Server 2008. This session will provide you an Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:06 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

VHD Test Drive - Storing large images in the cloud

"Now that I have my image ready, how can I make the 6 GB of files available to my clientele?" "Does Microsoft store my images?" Especially our smaller partners in the VHD Test Drive program have been asking these questions a lot. For many reasons Microsoft Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:12 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

VHD Test Drive - Two new images

Just a quick note on new images. Over Labor Day weekend we have uploaded 2 new images: Windows 2003 + Exchange 2007 SP1 Beta 2 Windows 2003 + BizTalk 2006 Virtually Yours Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:13 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Microsoft Virtualization has a new home

Microsoft Virtualization information has a new home. Check out the new URL: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualization/default.mspx . The content available here cover all virtualization technologies in one place as you can see: Looking Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:16 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

New set of Microsoft Virtualization videos available

Virtualization in Windows Server Mike Neil, General Manager http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=515 Virtualization technology roadmap and an outline of Microsoft's vision for how these technologies will combine with future Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:23 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

VHD Test Drive MOSS images now includes Visio 2007

The VHD test Drive team just finished an updated version of the MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) image and uploaded it to Microsoft Connect . The new version of this image now contains Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 + Microsoft Office Enterprise Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 2:33 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Windows Virtualization Team Blog adds new member

Starting yesterday Jeff Woolsey, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft in the Microsoft Virtualization team started blogging. You can read his first blog post here . If you have not yet subscribed to the team blog. Here's one more good reason. Moving forward Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:46 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Virtual Server and Data Protection Manager Install and Configure

A (new) virtualization webcast is heading your way. The DPM-Virtual Server partner webcast we did last week was so well attended that we decided to do a repeat with even more demo. So, mark your calendars: Microsoft Virtual Server and Data Protection Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 5:27 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Citrix launched PS 4.5 as VHD in VHD Test Drive

It is good to see a valuable partner (and competitor) like Citrix to leverage the VHD Test Drive. They are a long time partner of the program. You can download Citrix EVA (Citrix Evaluation Virtual Appliance) from their website . From the website: What Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:55 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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VHD Test Drive - Image Update

Microsoft has increased the number of available images of VHD Test Drive for partners. As usual, the images are available on Microsoft Connect . Currently we provide a total of 6 different images that can be enhanced by ISV partners with own applications Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 23, 2007 3:07 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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