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A few nights ago, I finally got around to upgrading my own Hyper-V installation from release candidate 1 to the RTM version. I’d already updated the notebook PC that I use for work but I’d forgotten about the server at home - it was working well (and...
I've written a lot about Hyper-V on this blog (some would say too much) but I'm going to carry on regardless. What I'll try to do is steer clear of the arguments about how it competes with alternative technologies and stick to technical details...
Even though choosing a hypervisor is only a small part of implementing a virtualisation strategy, much has been written about how Microsoft Hyper-V compares to VMware ESX - and there are some fundamental differences between those two products . Architecturally...
One of the problems associated with virtualisation is "virtual sprawl" - the proliferation of virtual machines (which can totally negate the idea of "server consolidation" if not carefully controlled. Management becomes critical -...
I was at a VMware event yesterday where they proudly played this video... ...it's a bit of fun (and the music is really catchy - even if the lip sync is a bit out!) and was apparently first shown at VMworld a few months back. It's not just VMware...
In the week or so since Hyper-V RTMed there has been a huge amount of coverage on various websites. Here's a roundup of some of the more useful articles that I've come across recently: Sean Earp has taken a look at running various Linux distributions...
A few months back, I wrote about using the Microsoft Remote Desktop protocol to access USB devices from within a Hyper-V virtual machine . At the time, I mentioned that this approach will also work for other local resources and James O'Neill recently...
I've posted quite a bit of information about Hyper-V on this blog - including the Hyper-V presentation I gave at Microsoft UK in April 2008 but TechNet Edge has some videos from the Windows Server Virtualization product team that go into a lot of...
Virtualisation is great but it's not a "one size fits all" solution - some workloads just don't make sense for virtualisation. For many organisations, Exchange Server is one such workload but there are scenarios when it might be appropriate...
Microsoft has been very careful in its statements about comparing Hyper-V with ESX. Jason Perlow's Hyper-V review is a little more forthright and the graphics are great! I don't think that VMware is the new Netscape (although it seems IDC might...
Further to yesterday's post announcing that Hyper-V has shipped , I thought I'd highlight that John Howard has blogged extensively on obtaining Hyper-V, changes at RTM, upgrade considerations and more .
When Windows Server 2008 shipped with only a beta version of the new "Hyper-V" virtualisation role in the box Microsoft undertook to release a final version within 180 days. I've commented before that, based on my impressions of the product...
A few days back I gave the strongest hint that I could without breaking any NDAs that Microsoft's Windows virtualization product group were about to release something special . I couldn't say what at the time but it's no longer a secret -...
The trouble with running Microsoft Hyper-V on a notebook PC is that notebook PCs typically don't have large hard disks. Add a few snapshots and a virtual machine (VM) can quickly run into tens or even hundreds of gigabytes and that meant that I needed...
In my Hyper-V presentation on Wednesday , I said that USB support was one of the things that is missing from Hyper-V. That is correct - i.e. there is no ability to add USB devices as virtual hardware - but, in a conversation yesterday, Clive Watson pointed...
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