Hybrid virtualization
Friday, November 21st, 2008Let’s continue with our virtualization school for beginners. In my previous post, I have explained Type 2 virtualization. In this post, I’ll give you simple schema and description of Hybrid virtualization. In this virtualizaton type, both host OS and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) run directly on the hardware, but with different levels of access to [...]
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
Saturday, November 1st, 2008In last few days I was so busy and I couldn’t find some time to write about new great Microsoft’s product. It’s called Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. Basically, it is operating system that looks just like Windows Server Core, but instead having 9 roles like Core, it has only one - Hyper-V. So, this [...]
Type 2 virtualization
Saturday, October 18th, 2008In next few posts, I’m gonna try to explain all types of virtualization. So, let’s start with first and easiest type, Type 2. At the bottom of the model is, of course, hardware. Above it is host operating system, for example, Windows Vista. Above host OS is Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), whose role is to [...]
Security Days 2008
Saturday, September 27th, 20086th Security Days will be held in Hotel Antunovic, Zagreb, from September 29th - September 30th 2008. This conference covers many topics, especially enterprise security, and keyword on this year’s conference will be virtualization (slogan means: Time for virtualization is now). I’m glad I’m gonna participate in this conference (thanks to Microsoft Croatia), and I’m [...]
Does server virtualization reduce costs?
Saturday, September 6th, 2008After summer and working for Euroclub, I have few weeks to enjoy in holidays. I have to admit, during whole summer I didn’t read any article about Windows Server, so I have a “huge” amount of good articles and news to share with you.
For the start, I have found a great series of articles on [...]
Microsoft starts selling Hyper-V six weeks earlier
Friday, June 27th, 2008On 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, 2008Today 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, 2008Windows 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, 2008Finnaly, 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, 2008Yesterday 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 [...]
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