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    • Microsoft starts selling Hyper-V six weeks earlier

    Friday, June 27th, 2008

    On Thursday, Microsoft said it has started selling Hyper-V six weeks ahead of schedule . That’s a big pressure for WMware, today’s market leader in server virtualization techologies. Hyper-V will cost only 28$, and comparable VMware product costs $7,000 to $14,000, depending on how many processors the server has. My personal opinion is that [...]

    Playing with Windows Server 2008

    Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

    Today I spent few hours in computer lab at my college playing with Windows Server 2008. I wanted to enable access to internet in guest operating systems. Since I don’t have Integration Components installed yet, I had to install Legacy network adapter, so I have “normal” network adapter and emulated one.

    First choice was to enable [...]

    New Windows Server 2008 power management whitepaper released

    Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

    Windows Server 2008 team announced a new whitepaper about power savings in Windows Server 2008. In this whitepaper, you can see how Windows Server 2008 provides customers with a number of new power-saving features including:

    Support for Processor Performance States (P-states)
    Server Virtualization with Hyper-V
    Support for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) processor power management (PPM)

    The [...]

    Adding virtual network to Hyper-V

    Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

    Finnaly, I have found a solution for my problem, and everything works now.
    First, you have to create new network adapter (I’m using external). Then, you have to add Legacy network adapter to your virtual machine (machine must be turned off). Why?
    This is because the Beta release of Hyper-V does not contain Integration Components that support [...]

    My experience with Hyper-V

    Saturday, June 7th, 2008

    Yesterday I installed Windows Server 2008 on the server at my college, as part of my final work. My task was to install Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V and few virtual operating systems, and to enable communication between those systems so my colleague can install IPSec between OSs, as part of her final work. I downloaded [...]

    Windows Server 2008 roles

    Sunday, May 18th, 2008

    As I promised in last post, in this post I’m going to give you the list of all Windows Server 2008 roles. As you can see in table, when you buy Windows Server 2008 Enterprise or Datacenter edition, you get all roles, when you buy Standard edition you have some limitations with few roles and [...]