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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator

Use this new version of the WVHA to determine if your hardware is ready to migrate to Vista and determine if you can migrate to Server 2008. It can also help you assess if you can virtualize servers by migrating them to Virtual Server or Server 2008's Hyper-V and if you can safely migrate your applications into the virtualization world as well using Microsoft Application Virtualization . You can download Server 2008 RC1 with Hyper-V here . Microsoft Assessment and Planning Overview Introduction...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Beta, Virtual Server, Application Virtualization, Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 RTM on Jan 16

If the other offerings RTM at the same time we should see server 2008, Vista SP1, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Sever 2008 all in a few weeks. This means NAP, Hypervisor, multicasting... Source . If you would like to attend the launch event in Los Angeles on Feb. 27th or any of the other launch events you can register here . Regards, Anthony Anthony Clendenen | Solutions Engineer | 1E http://configmgr.com © 2007 - 2008 Anthony Clendenen I Recommend These Books! SMS 2003 Administrator's Reference...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SQL , Beta, News, Microsoft, Virtual Server, ConfigMgr, Server 2008

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 SCSI Driver Demystified

There seems to be a lack of information around the virtual SCSI driver in Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, or at least information that is easy to find so here are some tips on getting the most out of this driver and how it compares to the IDE driver. You don't have to have a physical SCSI card or SCSI hard drives to use SCSI in Virtual Server 2005. The SCSI driver is a virtual SCSI driver for a virtual SCSI bus, it does not need to use a real SCSI card. The SCSI driver only has limited support...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Beta, Longhorn, News, Blog, Virtual Server, Virtual PC, ConfigMgr, Server 2008

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Released

The other day SCVMM went RTM . So what does this mean? This is a management tool that will allow you to rapidly deploy/create VM's, manage the resources they are using, suck in a physical server to a VM config file (or P to V) and add new virtual resources to existing VM's. If you use Virtual Server you should spend some time looking at this to see if it will benefit you or your organization, for larger Virtual Server farms it will be a no brainer. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: System Center, News, Microsoft, PowerShell, Virtual Labs, Virtual Server

Kevinsul's Management Blog : The Quick and Cheap Steps to Perform a Lab Installation of Configuration Manager 2007 Beta 2

The Quick and Cheap Steps to Perform a Lab Installation of Configuration Manager 2007 Beta 2 Pre-Requisites: The below instructions assume that you have two machines (virtual or physical). One of the machines will act as the domain controller and SCCM client. HW requirements for the domain controller should meet or exceed the following criteria: - P-III @ 1Ghz or better - 256 MB RAM or better - Adequate free disk space (SMS client will take around 10-25MB when installed and collecting inventory information...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SCCM 2007, Virtual Server, Virtual PC

MMS 2007 Day 2 - Microsoft announces Virtual Machine Manager beta 2

As expected Microsoft announced System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) beta 2, which will be publicly available within 45 days. In this new beta Microsoft introduces most wanted features like: Virtualization Candidates Recognition System Center Virtual Machine Manager leverages historical performance data in the Operations Manager 2007 database to identify and list underutilized physical servers that are good candidates for consolidation Capacity Planning When a virtual machine is deployed...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: MMS 2007, Virtual Server, Virtual PC

MMS 2007 - Day 2 - Keynote Speech

Rodney Sherwood starts off the keynote again this year with this comedy and a video of interviewing the stars at MMS. Senior VP Server and Tools, Bob Muglia was the keynote speaker. He started out with the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI). One part of the DSI is Virtualized infrastructure which consists of Virtual Server 2005 R2 and SoftGrid. Virtualization, OS virtualization "Viridian" Longhorn or Windows Server 2007, VPC, VS 2005 RS. Application virtualization is SoftGrid, focus now is on the client...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, System Center, Vista, News, SCCM 2007, SCOM, MMS 2007, Virtual Server, SoftGrid, SUP