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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:08 PM

Virtualization is 2.0 - Who Knew?

In this eWeek article , John Humphreys, IDC's program director for enterprise virtualization syas "In the next 18 months, virtualization will enter a "2.0" phase. According to him, virtualization will be a sought-after tool for companies looking to plan
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:08 AM

PowerShell: the DMZ of Interop

Windows PowerShell is shaping up to be the technology around which IT Pros from *nix and Windows worlds meet and build community (virtualization will be another, IMO). Check out Bill's post on PowerShell on Port25 . Some nifty links there, such as: Interview
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Friday, January 26, 2007 12:54 PM

Why 1TB disks will force you to embrace virtualization.

Jerome Wendt, president and lead analyst with DCIG Inc, shares an interesting perspective to day - Why 1TB disks will force you to embrace virtualization . "...low-cost network connectivity does not translate into simpler and lower costs of storage management.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:41 PM

VM Optimization

You may have read that you can improve the performance of most VMs by using SCSI instead of IDE disks. All well and good, but, uh, where are the instructions on how to do that if you already created the VM with IDE drives? Thanks to Nelson, the instructions
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Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:04 PM

Free Windows Server Virtualization Calculator

The new *free* Windows Server Virtualization Calculator helps you forecast licencing costs for your virtualization initiative. Budget those bits! The Calculator helps you estimate license costs in two ways: you can enter the number of servers by processor
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:29 AM

Filemon and Regmon No More, Long Live Procmon

I am working on content for a troubleshooting guide for System Center Virtual Machine Manager . Windows Sysinternals has launched on Technet, and the new site includes some invaluable TS tools. For example, Process Monitor 1.0 , an advanced monitoring
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:24 PM

Free VHDs

In case you missed everyone screaming it earlier this week, Microsoft has sweetened the deal for those of you interested in Virtualization by making free VHDs available. Taking System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 for a test drive just got a whole
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Friday, October 27, 2006 2:21 PM

Improve Virtual Server Networking

Check out the Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (KB912222) for ways to improve the networking performance of certain workloads and configurations in your virtual server environment. Caveats: 1) you must have supported HW - the KB states "This feature
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Monday, October 23, 2006 10:31 AM

Download Links to Windows PowerShell 1.0 RC2

There is a new page that has links and a FAQ explaining different language versions that are available. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/download.mspx Windows PowerShell 1.0 Release Candidate 2 currently supports
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Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:37 PM

Using the RDP Console session

My team has access to a Windows Server 2003 server in the test organization that is built daily/weekly by script with the new product bits. In order to meet our content deadlines, we need to run the GUI as it changes during product development and try
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:39 AM

Windows PowerShell Jumpstart

Here are some resources to get you started learning about PowerShell: M aterials to read PowerShell User Guide Scripting with Windows PowerShell Task-based Guide to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets TechCenter Sample Scripts Blogs Windows PowerShell Team Blog:
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Monday, October 02, 2006 5:38 PM

PowerOffVM: Script to stop a VM

Came across this today, handy little script for stopping a VM: '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 'PowerOffVM() 'this function powers off a Virtual Machine '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Function PowerOffVM
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Monday, October 02, 2006 10:23 AM

PowerShell RC 2 Install Points

VMM Beta 1 has a dependency on Windows PowerShell RC 1.0. You can find the bits on the Connect site (which requires registration) at: https://connect.microsoft.com/vmm/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=2492 The newest version of Windows PowerShell
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Monday, September 18, 2006 1:37 PM

Performance Optimization for VMs

Collating together best practice tips for getting best performance from your VMs: 1. Software optimization: Install the latest Virtual Machine Additions: for Windows Server 2003 SP1 go here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a963433c-193b-41ac-af6e-ab7ab2db8541&DisplayLang=en
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Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:28 AM

VM Additions Update

It is not clear from the download location (the date on the page didn't change) but the latest VM Additions at https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=151&DownloadID=2202 include support for Vista Beta 2 . Others who downloaded
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