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Migrating Physical-to-Virtual and Virtual-to-Virtual Machines with SCVMM
John Baker's WebLog : Migrating Physical-to-Virtual and Virtual-to-Virtual Machines with SCVMM During one of my presentations the other day I had mentioned a tool that can migrate physical and VMWare machines to virtual machines for Virtual Server and HyperV (once SCVMM supports HyperV). An attendee had emailed me to get more details, so here are the links to the information on System Center Virtual...
Deploying Windows in a Virtual World
TechNet Magazine Blog : Deploying Windows in a Virtual World An AWESOME post on Deploying Windows in a Virtual World!!
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007
Free Download of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Download and test drive Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 to maximize IT resources. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7949072
Virtualization
Taken from http://blogs.technet.com/jweston/archive/2007/10/05/virtualization.aspx We have a Virtualization Webcast series coming up that dives a lot deeper into the benefits of virtualization. You can register for it here -- Virtualization Webcast Series The individual sessions and a few extra that are on demand are: Virtualization and Windows Server 2008 An overview of the virtualization role, the...
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is due to be Released To Manufacture (RTM) at the end of August
Larry Orecklin ("General Manager at Microsoft focussed on the System Center family of Management products and Virtualisation") has announced that System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is due to be Release(d) To Manufacture (RTM) by the end of August. This is good news as SCVMM provides the means to dynamically manage the workloads on your virtual machines to maximise server utilization...
Virtual Server 2005 R2 Demo Video
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1aa23c1c-82a0-4bde-81c0-15dafd2c7756&DisplayLang=en Virtual Server 2005 R2 Demo Video Brief Description Demo Overview of Virtual Server 2005 R2
Some New Microsoft Virtualization Tools and Docs
Windows Server Virtualization Calculator (Version 2) has been released. This calculator allows you interactively build virtual machines running multiple Microsoft server products to estimate the licenses and costs for Windows Server by edition (Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter) and many Microsoft server products. It starts with configuring your server based on virtualization technology, sockets...
VHD Mount
Chris Wolf wrote this great article on a tool with Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. Original Article: http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=1793 "Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Treasures: VHD Mount - Use VHD Mount to mount and edit the contents of VHD virtual hard disk files. By Chris Wolf Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be writing about some of my favorite features in the recently...
Virtual Server 2005 R2 service pack 1 now will be available in Q2
The final version of Virtual Server 2005 R2 service pack 1 now will be available in Q2, not Q1 as previously stated. http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2007/04/12/Viridian-and-Virtual-Server-Timing-Updates.aspx