satire

April 1, 2010 | 10 comments

Satirical open letter to Red Hat from VMware ESX.

March 1, 2010 | 4 comments

Yo Dawg! I heard you like to virtualize, but there is no truth to the rumor that Xzibit influenced the Hyper-V design.

February 17, 2010 | 20 comments

Microsoft has broken through numerous technological barriers, enabling Windows/Hyper-V to directly execute Linux applications.

October 22, 2009 | 10 comments

After being featured at numerous events, Microsoft has finally launched Windows Server 2008 R2 for the last time. Please take a moment to acknowledge the launch -- or they may launch it again.

October 21, 2009 | 3 comments

Microsoft released Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Thee technical version number for those products is not actually 7, it is 6.1.

October 12, 2009 | 11 comments

Hyper-V CSV LUNs have no human-friendly labels, making it difficult for administrators to easily identify volumes. Instead, cryptic GUIDs are shown when monitoring from System Center Operations Manager 2007.

July 15, 2009 | 3 comments

It’s really getting out of hand — crazy rumors and speculation surrounding the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 release date are indeed baffling. Take the following example*, where an anonymous author had the audacity to say: It is our goal that the final (RTM) version of SCVMM 2008 R2 will ship within 60 days of [...]

May 27, 2009 | 5 comments

Now that Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V has released… What’s that? It has not yet released? Sorry about that, I was confused for a moment — all of the key features of Hyper-V that Microsoft Virtualization team has been talking about for months are actually in the R2 product, which is currently just at release candidate [...]

March 5, 2009 | No comments

Long live the Management Operating System! In an effort to clarify the overly complex concept of “parent partition,” Microsoft changed the terminology before things really got out of hand.  Surely you’ve heard the one about the Hyper-V administrator that called into Microsoft product support asking why he had to give a portion of his new system [...]

December 7, 2008 | No comments

Recently, I was going through some old computer paraphernalia at home and came across something that might just come in handy if I ever have to use Windows Server Core:

October 27, 2008 | 19 comments

A surprising feature of SCVMM and Hyper-V is the requirement to copy multi-gigabyte ISO image files from the library server to individual VM directories on SAN storage instead of sharing a single instance.