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Announcing "HVRemote"...., a tool to "automagically" configure Hyper-V Remote Management. (Amazing what can be done with a few days vacation to kill before you lose them at the end of the year....). I'm not going into the gory detail here as I've created a PDF containing the documentation, and a site on http://code.msdn.microsoft
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Design and configure SQL Server 2008 with High-Availability while leveraging the new features of Windows Server 2008 Clustering and Hyper-V virtualization at this session. Get an in-depth understanding of the new features in SQL Server 2008 high-availability and enhancements such as mirroring and much more! PDF/XPS Download At Source
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Learn about the foundation of the Microsoft virtualization strategy and solutions in this session. Understand the meaning and benefits of virtualization and also gain insights into the overall Microsoft virtualization strategy that range from the desktop to the data center. Hear from the experts as they clear up misconceptions about virtualization,
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Take an inside look at Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager from an architectural and experience a real world view. See how SCVMM and PowerShell can help you manage your virtualized environment seamlessly. The session comes complete with live demos of real life scenarios, and even a look at SCVMM managing a VMWare ESX! PDF/XPS Download
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Microsoft is pleased to announce the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 – the next generation of Microsoft’s solution for managing the virtualized infrastructure. A key member of System Center – a centralized, enterprise-class suite of data center management products -- Virtual Machine Manager
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Download here: English | Chinese Traditional (ZH-TW) | All Other Languages Click to view licensing terms Licensing Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a stand-alone product that will be available via the Microsoft Download Center free of charge. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 does not require CALs for the product itself. CALs
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This guide will provide you with all the information you need to setup and configure Hyper-V Server 2008. It covers setup up local administrator passwords, the new Hyper-V configuration tool and remote management. Start download
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This document provides you the License Terms for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. Start download
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The official Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 site is up and a download link is publ;ished, but not yet available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5CEACA28-7AC0-4613-9227-D0FA337331FD Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 provides a simplified, reliable, and optimized virtualization solution, enabling improved server utilization and reduced
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Increased functionality and virtual machine control in the Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Management console for the Hyper-V role This article describes the increased functionality and virtual machine control in the Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Management console for the Hyper-V role. This update incorporates changes in the way that the
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Install this update to resolve potential issues when you manage Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Server 2008 License Terms. Download At Source
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Install this update to enhance Hyper-V role's support for processors and virtual machines to now support up to 24 logical processors and 192 virtual machines. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Server 2008 License Terms. Download At Source
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Ever wonderd how the Sanbolic’s Kayo FS File System will work? Read the install guide, Download at Source ( www.Hyper-V.nu )
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The final version of the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V have been released! Driver support for synthetic devices: The Linux integration components include support for both the synthetic network controller and synthetic storage controller that have been developed specifically for Hyper-V. These components take advantage of the new high-speed
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Or download: Web file | Zune Quality | Broadcast Quality
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Or download: Web file | Zune Quality | Broadcast Quality
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This download page contains four separate VPC images, depending on what you want to test. IE6-XPSP3_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE6 VHD file IE7-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE7 VHD file IE8B2-XPSP3_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE8 Beta 2 VHD file IE7-VIS1.exe+IE7-VIS2.rar+IE7-VIS3.rar contain a Vista Image with
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This is the Privacy Statement for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 product. This Word document download provides the Privacy Statement for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 product. Download At Source
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If you work with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering, you should check a new update called "Increased functionality and virtual machine control in the Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Management console for the Hyper-V role". This hotfix includes a few key improvements on the way Windows Server 2008
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Microsoft's Virtualization Plans: From Desktop to Datacenter and the Clouds Mark Russinovich Technical Fellow Microsoft Join Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich for this keynote as he shares his thoughts on the state of IT computing and tommorrow’s trends, and how Microsoft is helping to transform the traditional desktop and datacenter
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This TechED 2008 session is a talk about Virtualization and Security by Steve Riley. At every event I went to, when he gives a talk, he is allways voted as best speaker. So a nice watch! View online at source or download:
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Or view online at source
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This is the latest version of the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator. The Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator enables connection of a Windows host to an external iSCSI storage array using Ethernet NICs. This download can be installed on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000. For Vista and Windows Sever 2008, the iSCSI initiator is included
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Dilip Naik a is joining the HyperVoria team! Dilip is a current Microsoft MVP awardee and also a former Microsoft employee. Dilip has an extensive experience in network file systems and ffilter drivers and is also a co-author of the only RFCs ever published by Microsoft in the are of Common Internet File Systems (CIFS). Dilip is also the author of Inside
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A popular question that seems to be floating on various blogs and message boards is related to why SCVMM integrates with Virtual Infrastructure by proxying requests through Virtual Center Web Service APIs as opposed to talking directly to ESX. There are several reasons for this and I'll go through them roughly in priority order to hopefully clarify
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Wow finally you can download evaluation versions of Windows Embedded products like Storage Server, normally only approved OEMs could get it. Now after a simple registration form you can download: Windows Server 2008 for Embedded Systems Windows Server 2003 R2 for Embedded Systems Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 Microsoft Windows Unified Data Storage
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Tonyso: The Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide is live in the download center today. 30 pages, covers: Overview of Hyper-V Before You Install Hyper-V Hardware Considerations About Virtual Machines and Guest Operating Systems Install the Hyper-V Role on a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2008 Install the Hyper-V Role on a Full Installation
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Christopher: I've found a simple and very satisfactory solution to the problem of no USB support in Hyper-V. FabulaTech's USB Over Network product is simple to install - you install the Server side of it on whatever physical machine will host the USB devices, and the Client side on whatever virtual machine needs access to the USB devices. You
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This offering enables you to maximize the value of your physical and virtual server infrastructure investments by providing a proven methodology, best practices, and the highest level of expertise in the industry. Download At Source
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See how Microsoft Windows 2008 Hyper-V and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) Hypervisor compare and contrast to each other. Both Microsoft Windows 2008 Hyper-V and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) Hypervisor have the same goal: to provide an OS-independent virtualization environment for guest workloads. Both options employ similar virtualization
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Aiden Finn: I've previously discussed how RAM is used by Hyper-V in terms of: The parent partition Hyper-V services Drivers Guest RAM allocation overhead. I've put together an Excel spreadsheet that calculates how much RAM is consumed by a VM as you load it onto a host. Using it is easy: Specify how much RAM is in the physical host machine.
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Technet Edge: John Howard, Ben Armstrong, Bryon Surace are program managers in the server virtualization team and give us the technical details on various components of the Hyper-V architecture. In part 4, we dive into the following components: Determine when you would want to use a pass-through disk How iSCSI works and how you can use it with Hyper
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The Microsoft virtualization products that includes Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V , System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 , and Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid) starts with a press briefing September 8. The September event is the U.S. kickoff event to a 6-month worldwide event series highlighting Microsoft virtualization
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Rack Server Virtualization Add-in provides the capability to pull the rack-server data either from an Excel spread sheet or from the user and render the Visio diagram. This amazing Add-in from Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Professional helps you plan virtualization. With over 70% of server hardware being under-utilized, this very valuable tool
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This guide will be available for download in doc, pdf, and .chm formats July 21st, 2008. Please check back for availability. Guidance for using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V The purpose of this guide is to provide guidance for using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper
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The increasing use of virtual machines creates new challenges for IT. Virtual machines that are left offline for extended periods of time do not automatically receive operating system, anti-virus, or application updates that would keep them compliant with current IT policy. An out-of-date virtual machine poses a risk to the IT environment. If deployed
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Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V now reached RC2 status and are available from http://connect.microsoft.com/ Due to customer feedback from the beta version, we added a couple of additional features. Mouse Support: Support for the synthetic mouse device has been added in RC2. This new mouse support allows the mouse to move
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Luka Tech Blog: What we need to make FreeBSD run on Hyper-V: - download FreeBSD ISO image from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200806 Download this ISO image: 7.0-STABLE-200806-i386-disc1.iso - create new Virtual Machine using Hyper-V - remove default network card that is added by wizard - add hardware and chose Legacy network adapter
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Presentation #1, Hyper-V unleased can be downloaded here: http://www.virtuall.nl/seminars/BriForum2008/BriForum08HyperVunLeashed.pdf Presentation overview: Microsoft Virtualization 360 Virtualization within WS08 Hyper-V benefits and disadvantages Managing Hyper-V and ESX with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 'War of the Virtual worlds'
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Tore Lervik: I've created a sidebar gadget so I can see what the Hyper-V server is doing from my workstation. The gadget can list multiple servers at once and also support vmconnect when double clicking on a VM. PS: The gadget uses WMI to connect to the server so the user need remote WMI access (Step 5) on the Hyper-V server. The 3.0 version comes
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Are you thinking about virtualizing your datacenter but don't know where to start when it comes to infrastructure design? The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides (IPD) are designed to make the IT guidance easily consumable. Each guide will walk you through a series of key design decision trees around implementation server and virtualization
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Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption provide consolidated workloads a platform for secure data and systems. This paper describes detail steps for setting up this platform for deployment of virtual machines. Download At Source
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The update to the Hyper-V role provides improvements to security, stability, performance, user experience, forward compatibility of configurations, and the programming model. All users of the Hyper-V role should apply this update. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. After you have installed this update, it cannot be removed
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Shows you how to make a virtual machine highly available. You will do this by creating a simple two-node cluster and a virtual machine, and then failing over the virtual machine from one node to the other. Download At Source
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The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator is a tool that makes it easy for you to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. It includes the features previously provided with the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Solution Accelerator. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator
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The Hyper-V Language Pack for Windows Server 2008 is now available from the Microsoft Download Center. The Hyper-V Language Pack installs the language pack for the release version of Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2008-based computer. The Hyper-V Language Pack adds support for the following languages: • Czech • Hungarian • Korean •
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Install this update to enable remote management of a Windows Server 2008 computer that is running the Hyper-V role. All users of the Hyper-V role should apply this update. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Vista License Terms. This update package installs
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The update to the Hyper-V role provides improvements to security, stability, performance, user experience, forward compatibility of configurations, and the programming model. All users of the Hyper-V role should apply this update. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. After you have installed this update, it cannot be removed
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The Microsoft VHD format is the common virtualization file format for Virtual PC, Virtual Server 2005 and Hyper-V that provides a uniform product support system, and provides more seamless manageability, security, reliability and cost-efficiency for customers. This VHD release is available in English only and is for evaluation and testing purposes.
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This document provides guidance for virtualizing Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) with the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology. It describes recommended hardware and virtual machine configurations, and it provides an overview of the installation of Windows Essential Business Server RC0 in a virtualized environment
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Get an at Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the virtualization feature, by downloading this product overview. This document provides an overview of Hyper-V and explores Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy, how it addresses key business needs including server consolidation, business continuity, testing and development, moving toward a dynamic data center