HyperAdmin

Posted on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 | 2 Responses

Todd Mera contacted me a few weeks ago to let me know about a new application his company has developed for administering Microsoft Virtual Server. Though the group has a lot of aspirations for the product and ideas for future features, it serves at least today as an easier way to manage virtual machines […]

While I Was Out

Posted on Thursday, July 13th, 2006 | One Response

Gee whiz. I leave town for a few days with the family (exploring south-central Kentucky) and all sorts of interesting things happen like…
New licensing for Windows Server 2003 R2, Datacenter Edition. The “buzz” around this announcement has focused so far on the fact that Microsoft is adding unlimited virtualization licensing for Windows Server […]

Why Virtual Server 2005 Drives Me Crazy - Episode #2

Posted on Saturday, July 1st, 2006 | 2 Responses

Andrew Dugdell was nice enough to link to my last post as he thought it was interesting. He also points out that I labeled it as “Episode #1″, meaning there should be more coming. I had, indeed, thought a topic as large as this one would ultimately end up being more than one […]

Why Virtual Server 2005 Drives Me Crazy - Episode #1

Posted on Thursday, June 29th, 2006 | 2 Responses

It has been awhile since I’ve loaded Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005 product. I’ve almost exclusively been using VMware Workstation, VMware GSX Server or VMware Server lately for my day-to-day testing. Tonight I finally got around to taking at look at the beta for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 - the goal being to […]

“Carmine”: Microsoft’s Answer to VirtualCenter?

Posted on Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 | No Comments

This is the first I’ve heard of a rumored Microsoft Virtual Server Management product, code-named “Carmine”. Should be worth keeping an eye on as Microsoft continues to evolve it’s virtualization solutions.
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