A Flexera announcement about VDI we may have missed with all the MMS 2012 hubbub

April 30, 2012 in myITforum.com, Sponsors, Virtualization by Admin for myITforum.com

  Announced the first day of MMS 2012, we completely missed this!  But, thanks to the folks at Flexera for keeping us up-to-date.  We found a little reminder in our inbox today about this. In [...]

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System Center Monitoring Pack for System Center 2012 for Virtual Machine Manager available

April 27, 2012 in SCOM 2012, System Center 2012, System Center Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), Virtualization by Rod Trent

  The VMM monitoring pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, or System Center 2012 – Operations Manager monitors availability of VMM and the availability, health, and performance of [...]

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VMware source code leaked!

April 25, 2012 in MMS, myITforum.com, Virtualization, VMWare by Rod Trent

  I’ve seen a bunch of posts since MMS 2012 where industry folks have scoffed at the notion that Microsoft *could* overtake VMware, as it was pronounced during the conference.  One Twitter comment even, during [...]

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TAD talks: The hidden bummers of going too far beyond virtualization

April 13, 2012 in Virtualization by Rod Trent

  Funny stuff! Some IT providers are talking cloud, but still living in a virt-based world. See why Microsoft offers a private cloud solution that is built for the future and ready now. http://aka.ms/vmltd

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Betas: App-V hits the 5.0 mark, UE-V announced

April 4, 2012 in App-V, UE-V, Virtualization by Rod Trent

  Microsoft has announced a couple important virtualization milestones, just ahead of MMS 2012.  Both in BETA, User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) is a new Desktop Virtualization product announced, while App-V 5.0 has been released. What [...]

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Hyper-V Host/Guest Reports for ConfigMgr using Normalize CM

March 22, 2012 in Hyper-V, Reports and Queries, SCCM 2007, System Center Configuration Manager, Virtualization by Rod Trent

  This is something you might have missed if you’re not a member of the BDNA Normalize CM Community Group. Julien Moreau, myITforum member and BDNA person, just posted SQL and WQL queries for gathering [...]

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Microsoft alters software licensing for virtualization in the datacenter and server farm

March 21, 2012 in Licensing, Virtualization, Windows by Rod Trent

  Looks like this will make things a lot easier.  Microsoft is waiving the 90 day “waiting” period for reassigning licenses to another server.  This brief explains the new terms, lists eligible server licenses, and [...]

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VMM 2012 gets an update so it can run on Windows Server “8”

March 21, 2012 in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), Virtualization, Windows, Windows 8 by Rod Trent

  This download updates the Virtual Machine Manager component of System Center 2012 to enable the component’s management server to run on the Windows Server “8” Beta, to manage virtual machines (VMs) hosted on Windows [...]

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Infographic: What IT Admins need to know about Virtualization Management

March 21, 2012 in Virtualization by Rod Trent

   

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How to do it: Sequencing the ConfigMgr 2007 R3 console with App-V

March 20, 2012 in App-V, SCCM 2007, System Center Configuration Manager, Virtualization by Rod Trent

  Straight and to the point.  That’s how I describe the post by Somaning Turwale, Support Engineer at Microsoft.  There really needs to be more content like this available.  If you could just search for [...]

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