Microsoft Virtualization

Installation guide for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta

rodtrent — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:40:03 GMT

Installation guide for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta

Deployment Guidance for Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 2.0

rodtrent — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:37:20 GMT

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V 2.0) enables enterprises to realize the benefits of the latest client operating systems by providing a managed environment for legacy applications.

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) creates a virtual environment called a MED-V Workspace for running applications that require Windows XP or Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 7. The MED-V Workspace requires memory and disk space from the Windows 7 host on which it is installed. At a minimum, 2GBs of RAM are required on the host. Disk space is variable and is dependent on the number of applications and the amount of data that users will have in their MED-V Workspace

System Center Virtual Machine Manager: Infrastructure Planning and Design

rodtrent — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:50:19 GMT

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.

The Citrix Connector for System Center Configuration Manager

rodtrent — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:28:17 GMT

The System Center team is working in partnership with Citrix to integrate the management of XenApp with Configuration Manager. We’ve put together this white paper that outlines how the new capabilities can be used to improve enterprise application management. The Citrix Connector for Configuration Manager will enable unified management of applications across the desktop and XenApp Server farm environment. The connector enhances Configuration Manager, enabling administrators to orchestrate the tasks required to deliver applications to XenApp Servers and publish XenApp hosted applications seamlessly and with minimal impact to the user.

Application Virtualization Comparison Matrix

rodtrent — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:40:29 GMT

This document covers many of the app virtualization solutions and explores the feature breakdown and comparisons.

- Troy Wilch

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5

rodtrent — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:56:20 GMT

This whitepaper is designed to provide administrators with guidance for sequencing applications to create virtual packages that can be delivered to the end user. This document discusses setting up the sequencer, sequencing best practices, an example of sequencing, important information related to updating packages, and finally examples of advanced OSD scripting.

HP Sizer for Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2

rodtrent — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:05:24 GMT

The HP Sizer for Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 is an automated, downloadable tool that provides quick and helpful sizing guidance for “best-fit” HP server and storage configurations running in a Hyper-V R2 environment. The tool is intended to assist with the planning of a Hyper-V R2 virtual server deployment project. It enables the user to quickly compare different solution configurations and produces a customizable server and storage solution complete with a detail Bill of Materials (BOM) that includes part numbers and prices.

The HP Sizer for Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 allows users to create new solutions, open already existing solutions, or use other types of performance data collecting tools, such as the Microsoft Assessment and Planning tool (MAP), to build rich Hyper-V R2 configurations based on HP server and storage technology. The tool allows rapid comparison of Hyper-V R2 characterizations using various HP server and storage choices.

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V 1.0) Planning, Deployment and Operations Guide

rodtrent — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:07:53 GMT

This document includes the user guide shipped with the MED-V 1.0 software. MED-V uses Microsoft Virtual PC to provide an enterprise solution for desktop virtualization. With MED-V, you can easily create, deliver and manage corporate Virtual PC images on any Windows®-based desktop. MED-V is an integral component of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, a dynamic solution available to Software Assurance customers, which helps reduce application deployment costs, enables delivery of applications as services, and helps to better manage and control enterprise desktop environments.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and 2008 R2 MPSRPT Tool

rodtrent — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:11:06 GMT

You use MPS Reporting Tool to gather detailed system status and configuration information from the Virtual Machine Manager server of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 or 2008 R2 server as well as from all managed virtual machine hosts, library servers, and physical to virtual conversion (P2V) source computers. This version of the MPS Reporting Tool collects gathers data to help Microsoft Support Professionals diagnose error conditions experienced in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.

The tool offers the ability to select the particular scenarios for which system configuration data will be gathered. For more information, see the Readme.txt document that is included with the download of the tool.

The Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) version of the MPS Reporting Tool gathers the following diagnostic data for the VMM server, the virtual machine hosts and library servers that the VMM server manages, and physical to virtual conversion (P2V) source computers:

Virtual Machine Manager traces
Virtual Machine Manager database
Windows event logs and virtual server event logs
IP address
Virtual Machine Manager setup logs
SQL Server setup logs
Registry information
Open ports information
System Information (msinfo)

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and 2008 R2 Configuration Analyzer

rodtrent — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:09:31 GMT

The VMMCA is a diagnostic tool you can use to evaluate important configuration settings for computers that either are serving or might serve VMM roles or other VMM functions. The VMMCA scans the hardware and software configurations of the computers you specify, evaluates them against a set of predefined rules, and then provides you with error messages and warnings for any configurations that are not optimal for the VMM role or other VMM function that you have specified for the computer.

Note The VMMCA does not duplicate or replace the prerequisite checks performed during the setup of VMM 2008 or VMM 2008 R2 components.

Before installing VMM, you can use the VMMCA to help you evaluate the configuration of computers that you might use for the following VMM roles:
• VMM server
• VMM Administrator Console
• VMM Self-Service Portal

After installing VMM, you can use the VMMCA to evaluate the configurations of computers that you are now using or might use for the VMM roles listed above, as well as computers that you are using or might use for any of the following VMM functions:
• Windows Server–based host
• VMware Virtual Center Server
• P2V source computer
• Operations Manager agent

Release History
VMMCA 2.04271.0 - 9-18-2009
Update 1 - 02-13-2009
Original - 12-04-2008

Virtualizing Windows Essential Business Server

rodtrent — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:37:20 GMT

Server virtualization enables multiple operating systems to run on a single physical server as virtual machines. With server virtualization, you can consolidate the workloads of multiple servers onto a smaller number of fully utilized servers. Fewer servers can reduce hardware, energy, and management costs. By using the Microsoft® Hyper-V™ technology in the Windows Server® 2008 operating system, you can run a virtualized instance of Windows® Essential Business Server on a single server or several servers.

Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide

rodtrent — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:37:25 GMT

This guide includes information about hardware requirements and limits, supported guest operating systems, and instructions for installing the role and management tools. It also includes information about configuring security, network, and storage for the Hyper-V role.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Cmdlet Reference

rodtrent — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:36:21 GMT

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 is a server application that you can use to manage virtual machines on a variety of virtualization platforms. As an alternative to using the VMM Administrator Console to administer your Virtual Machine Manager environment, you can use the cmdlets in the Windows PowerShell - Virtual Machine Manager command shell, which is an administrator-focused command-line shell. This document provides the Help topics for the VMM 2008 R2 cmdlets.

VMM2008 R2 - Building PRO-Enabled Management Packs

rodtrent — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:35:06 GMT

This document gives an overview of creating PRO-enabled management packs and walks you through the steps required to create a simple PRO-enabled management pack.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Release Notes

rodtrent — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:33:26 GMT

The VMM 2008 R2 Release Notes contain information about known issues with VMM 2008 R2.