Daniel Matey: Vitualización

Maquinas virtuales de Microsoft instalas y listas para bajar

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:04:56 GMT

:-D

Isa, Exchange, W2K3 y SQL.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?pocId=&freetext=msvhds&DisplayLang=en

Actualización de las additions para linux (beta)

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:50:36 GMT

Microsoft silently released the new 1.1 version of its Virtual Machine Additions, actually in beta on the Connect website.

The new version introduces support for following operating systems:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (update 6)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6)
Red Hat Linux 9.0
Red Hat Linux 7.3
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
SuSE Linux 10.0
SuSE Linux 9.3
SuSE Linux 9.2

Enroll the beta here.

Usando SNP para mejorar el rendimiento de las maquinas virtuales

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:21:53 GMT

http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2006/10/27/improve-virtual-server-networking.aspx

Un buen gesto:Virtual Hard Disk format released under Open Specification Promise

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:26:11 GMT

Virtual Hard Disk format released under Open Specification Promise

A while ago we announced that we were making the VHD format available, royalty free, to people who were interested in using it in their products. Today we have announced that we are releasing this format under the Open Specification Promise (OSP). If you are not familiar with the OSP - checkout: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx. In layman’s terms it means - go for it. Use it for free - it is fine by us.

For more details about the VHD specification - checkout: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/techinfo/vhdspec.mspx

Cheers,
Ben

Published Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:13 AM by Virtual PC Guy

Ya puedes descargar la beta de Virtual PC 2007

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:01:08 GMT

Recuerda que si tu procesador soporta virtualización asistida por hardware tus maquinas virtuales iran mas rapidas.

http://connect.microsoft.com/

Virtual PC 2007 Application Compatibility White Paper

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:46:46 GMT

Recordar que hasta el dia 11 podeis intentar entrar en la beta.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/F/2/DF24C3BF-84EA-4B2D-A448-CBB7879EE5FE/Using%20Microsoft%20Virtual%20PC%202007%20for%20Application%20Compatibility.doc

VMware Infrastructure 3: Leading the Transition to 64-bit Computing

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:58:42 GMT

Me gusta Virtual Server, pero por desgracia y segun para que, vmware esta por delante.

VMware Infrastructure 3: Leading the Transition to 64-bit Computing

The latest release of the award-winning VMware ESX Server and VirtualCenter furthers your ability to pervasively deploy virtualization with full 64-bit OS support, non-disruptive upgrades and product localization.

VMware Infrastructure 3 delivers systems infrastructure capabilities for entire farms of servers and storage, independent of the application/operating system workloads and of the underlying hardware.

New features in VMware Infrastructure 3 include:

* Full support for 64-bit guest operating systems facilitates the adoption of high-performance 64-bit applications such as Oracle, IBM DB2, and MySQL, SAP R/3 and MS Exchange. This allows for simultaneous 64-bit and 32-bit operating system and application environments.

* Support for less expensive storage options like iSCSI SAN and NAS makes it easier and more cost effective to deploy VMware Infrastructure

* VMware DRS dynamically provisions, migrates and manages computing capacity across resource pools to changing business requirements

* VMware HA increases availability by automatically restarting virtual machines on live production servers in the event of server failure

* Support for enterprise workloads with virtual machines with up to 4 processors and 16 GB of physical memory

Beta de Virtual PC 2007

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:09:27 GMT

Seguramente sera publica para finales de este mes.

video de Bill Gates en el Win_HEC

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:02:34 GMT

Interesante en general y en particular la parte de virtualización.

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0605/27803/WinHEC06_BillG_MBR.asx

Hotfix for VS2005R2SP1 on AMD hardware virtualization systems

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:27:55 GMT

Hotfix for VS2005R2SP1 on AMD hardware virtualization systems

I have heard from a couple of people who have hit this issue - so I thought I should make a post about it. If you attempt to run Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 on an AMD system with hardware virtualization - you are likely to see a large number of blue screens. The reason for this is that the x64 versions of Windows guard a number of privileged system registers that have been used maliciously in the past - and cause a system crash if someone tries to fiddle with them. As it turns out they are guarding a register that we need to modify for completely legitimate reasons.

To get around this there is a hotfix that you need to install on Windows first. This hotfix is available from the Virtual Server beta download page at: https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=151&DownloadID=3045

This hotfix applies to both the 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.

Cheers,
Ben

Published Monday, September 25, 2006 10:56 AM by Virtual PC Guy
Filed Under: Virtual PC / Server Tips 'n' Tricks

Virtual PC 2007 para vista

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:27:43 GMT

Pocas novedades.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/F/2/DF24C3BF-84EA-4B2D-A448-CBB7879EE5FE/Using%20Microsoft%20Virtual%20PC%202007%20for%20Application%20Compatibility.doc

Mas consejos para mejora el rendimiento de las VM

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:27:22 GMT

http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2006/09/18/457314.aspx

Como usa Microsoft IT la virtualización

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:20:09 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=25DCB14A-03F5-434D-83F7-4D46C1675B87&displaylang=en

IDE vs SCSI under Virtual Server

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:16:47 GMT

There has been some confusion over when users should use SCSI or IDE virtual hard disk inside of their virtual machines. The first thing to note is that it does not matter what sort of physical hard disk you have in your computer when you are making this decision.

There are a number of factors to consider:

Our emulated IDE can only support 4 disks, while our emulated SCSI supports up to 28 disks
Our emulated IDE can only support up to 128GB disks, while our emulated SCSI can support up to 2TB disks
Our emulated IDE controller has a higher level of driver support for various operating systems than our emulated SCSI controller

The final thing to consider is performance - and this is a bit tricky. Contrary to common sense, the performance of our emulated SCSI controller is slower than that of our emulated IDE controller. The reason for this is that the SCSI controller is a lot more complicated to emulate than the IDE controller. Now - this changes once you have Virtual Machine Additions installed. As part of Virtual Machine Additions we install an accelerated SCSI driver. Once this driver is installed the performance of our emulated SCSI controller is significantly faster than our emulated IDE controller.

So with all of this in mind, my recommendation is this:

If you are running Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 with Virtual Machine Additions installed; use SCSI.
If you are running any other configuration; use IDE unless you specifically use more than 4 disks, or larger than 128gb disks

Cheers,
Ben

Published Monday, February 06, 2006 9:58 PM by Virtual PC Guy
Filed Under: Virtual PC / Server Tips 'n' Tricks

Virtual Machine Self Service

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:59:28 GMT

https://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2006/09/01/453485.aspx

Montar un cluster con Virtual Server R2 Paso a paso

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:16:54 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09cc042b-154f-4eba-a548-89282d6eb1b3&displaylang=en

Consejos para mejorar el rendimiento de las maquinas virtuales

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:04:53 GMT

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;903748

Corriendo controladores de dominio en virtual server

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:00:02 GMT

Muy interesante la parte de backups y problemas que se pueden dar en la restauración.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=64db845d-f7a3-4209-8ed2-e261a117fc6b&DisplayLang=en

Virtual Server 2005R2 vs Windows Server virtualization

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:59:20 GMT

	Virtual Server 2005 R2	Windows Server Virtualisation
32-bit VMs?	Yes	Yes
64-bit VMs?	No	Yes
Multi-core VMs?	No	Yes, up to 8 core VMs
VM memory support?	3.6 GB per VM	More than 32 GB per VM
Hot add memory/processors?	No	Yes
Hot add storage/networking?	No	Yes
Can be managed by SCVMM?	Yes	Yes
Cluster support?	Yes	Yes
Scriptable/Extensible?	Yes, COM	Yes, WMI
Number of running VMs?	64	More than 64. As many as hardware will allow.
User interface	Web Interface	MMC 3.0 Interface

Windows Server Virtualisation has the following system requirements:

Longhorn Server x64 Edition AND
System with hardware assisted virtualisation (either Intel VT or AMDV (formerly Pacifica))

To be explicit, Windows Server Virtualisation will NOT run on:

Windows Vista
Longhorn Server 32-bit (x86) or Itanium (IA-64) versions
Systems that don’t have Intel VT or AMD-V (Pacifica)

Otra de SCVMM

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:55:14 GMT

Creando una maquina virtual.

Fijaos en como el SCVMM te propone en que servidor host poner el guest y como cualifica las alternativas.

Me encanta este producto.

http://blogs.technet.com/clive_watson/archive/2006...

Mas sobre Powershell y SCVMM

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:27:20 GMT

http://blogs.technet.com/clive_watson/archive/2006...

SCVMM y Powershell

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:36:27 GMT

Para los que esteis con la beta, ejecutar START-Microsoft SCVMM-Windows PowerShell - VMM y vereis que sorpresa :-D

El virtual machine manager esta completamente soportado por Powershell al igual que Exchange 2007.