Virtualization

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Fret not, this is not the longest product name in Microsoft history. This is a very useful product and I use it on my main development machine so that I can have multiple development environments for all of my many different projects. I would highly recommend this over VirtualPC 2007. The service pack adds so many new features it really should be called Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R3. You can now use this natively on a 64-bit OS and it also makes use of hardware virtualization.…

What's going on with Windows Server Virtualization?

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Windows Server Virtualization (WSV) is a pretty cool technology. The ability to transform farms of thousands of servers into a cabinet of hundreds of servers would save not only on energy costs but also provide a solution to make maintaining servers much easier. So we were told that hardware virtualization is coming with Windows Server Longhorn. Then when it never appeared in any of the beta’s we were told it would be available as a separate product released within 180 days of Longhorn’s release.…