V-Index – how much is virtualization being used?
Monday, November 7th, 2011V-index is an online virtualization industry study performed by Vanson Bourne, an independent market research company. It is based on a survey of at least 500 enterprises across the US, UK, France and Germany and is designed to measure 3 parameters – virtualization rate, consolidation ratio and primary hypervisor in use. Results for quarter 3 [...]
Microsoft virtualization whitepapers
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011Two virtualization whitepapers have been recently published to introduce Hyper-V and Microsoft desktop virtualization. These whitepapers will be useful to everyone with only basic knowledge of virtualization and consider using it in their environment to reduce costs and improve business agility. Whitepaper #1: Everything you need to know about implementing Hyper-V. Aidan Finn provides [...]
Linux Integration Services 3.1 for Hyper-V
Thursday, July 28th, 2011Microsoft has released version 3.1. of the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V. Linux Integration Services are a set of drivers that enable synthetic device support in supported Linux virtual machines under Hyper-V. The supported operating systems for 3.1 are Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0 and 6.1 x86 and x64 (Up to 4 vCPU) and [...]
Windows Server 8 sneak peek
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011At the 2011 Microsoft worldwide partner conference, Jeff Woolsey showed a first sneak peek of the Windows Server codename “8”. As he said, Windows Server 8 will bring us a dozen of new features, but he demoed two, both connected with Hyper-V. Virtual machines with more than 16 logical processors Hyper-V replica, which will allow [...]
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 now available
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011As reported on Techycentral, first service pack for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is now available to download. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 could be describer as a “operating system” with only one role – Hyper-V. It is free, lightweight and great solution for your virtual environment. It has no GUI, so you have to [...]
When should I use virtualization?
Thursday, April 7th, 2011It’s simple, use it whenever you can, BUT, with use common sense when you’re doing it! In the beginnings of the entire virtualization talk, there were some ideas that you shouldn’t virtualize machines that are "critical" for your business. My personal opinion – naaah! Virtualize everything you can! Why?
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 is RTM!
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011After a couple of months of intensive testing, Microsoft finally announced SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM! I already wrote a couple of posts about Dynamic memory, it’s architecture and a need for it, and I also gave two presentations about it. I tested it for a couple of times, and it proved to [...]
Using virtualization in a hosting environment part 1
Thursday, November 18th, 2010I think we can all agree upon a fact that virtualization has its "perks": hardware consolidation, better ROI, more density "packed" server, lower expenses on servers, power and link lines. But the fact that I mind the most, is that rarely someone truly points out the bad sides of virtualization. Biggest problem with any virtualization [...]
Announcing “Using virtualization in a hosting environment” posts
Friday, October 29th, 2010Should you virtualize your hosting server? Well, there’s no straightforward answer to this question. Sometimes, yes, you should virtualize, and sometimes, obviously, you shouldn’t. How do decide which services to virtualize? Is there any point in virtualization of hosting services? What will we gain with virtualization? What will we lose with virtualizing some services? How [...]
How Do I: Use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit to identify servers suitable for virtualization with Hyper-V?
Thursday, October 28th, 2010Here is one more useful video from TechNet. Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit is a valuable resource which can help you identify server suitable for virtualization with Hyper-V, and this video shows you how to do it. It’s very short (06:20 minutes), so it shouldn’t be a problem to watch it .
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