SCVMM

October 27, 2008 | 20 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.

October 21, 2008 | No comments

Well, today’s the day.  The announcements have begun:  SCVMM is finally out.  I’m kind of waiting for someone to say Microsoft released it “early,” since the (latest) announced stated end of October. Brace yourself for a tidal wave of FUD from Redmond that perhaps only the Linux community has known.  Here are a couple examples [...]

October 17, 2008 | 4 comments

Microsoft Hyper-V Server is finally out.  We sure heard a lot about the new Windows-less hypervisor this year and how it was definitely not Windows.  Well, that turned out to be a bunch of marketing spin.  Not only is it just Windows, it even requires you to install some Internet Explorer security patches.  Huh? It [...]