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====================================================== Preamble: The point of this series, and the spirit in which it is written, is to take a holistic approach at the issues facing our customers, discuss the complexities with regard to memory management and explain why we’re taking the approach we are with Hyper-V Dynamic Memory. This isn’t meant to criticize anyone or technology, rather to have an open and transparent discussion about the problem space

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Dynamic Memory Coming to Hyper-V Part 3…

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 provide robust virtualization for customers who have appreciated the capabilities that this solution provides.

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Announcing the availability of the Beta version of Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V with SMP support

====================================================== Preamble: The point of this series, and the spirit in which it is written, is to take a holistic approach at the issues facing our customers, discuss the complexities with regard to memory management and explain why we’re taking the approach we are with Hyper-V Dynamic Memory. This isn’t meant to criticize anyone or technology, rather to have an open and transparent discussion about the problem space

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Dynamic Memory Coming to Hyper-V Part 2…

Virtualization Nation, I’ve had the pleasure of talking with customers in the last few months and the Hyper-V R2 reception has been nothing but unequivocally positive. Whether it’s been folks in small, medium or the enterprise, they appreciate the new capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 . At the same time, we’re always listening to our customers to better understand their business requirements and requests so we know know what to build for subsequent releases.

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Dynamic Memory Coming To Hyper-V

Hi, my name is Max Herrmann, and I am part of the Windows Server Remote Desktop Services marketing team at Microsoft. Two years ago, Microsoft acquired Calista Technologies where I came from – a startup that set out to create technology that allows remote workers to enjoy the same rich user experience over a network as with a locally executing desktop. This experience includes full-fidelity video with 100% coverage for all media types and highly-synchronized audio, rich media support including Silverlight and 3D graphics, and of course Windows Aero

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Explaining Microsoft RemoteFX

The RAC SIG will be hosting an interesting webcast this Thursday, March 18th at 9am pacific time (5pm GMT) on: Best Practices around Oracle VM with RAC The adaptation of virtualization technology has risen tremendously and continues to grow due to the rapid change and growth rate of IT infrastructures. With this in mind, this seminar focuses on configuration best practices, examining how Oracle RAC scales & performs in a virtualized environment, and evaluating Oracle VM Server’s ease of use.

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Best Practices around Oracle VM with RAC: RAC SIG webcast – Thursday, March 18th -

Louise Johns blogged about software availability and roadmap news for the Opalis software we acquired in December. Since all of you care about systems management as much as virtualization, I wanted to make sure you saw Louise’s post

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RT: Opalis Software Availability and Roadmap News

Our customers often deploy Microsoft server workloads, such as SQL Server, SharePoint and Exchange, on Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center, and want to know how other customers have deployed these workloads and if there are deployment guidelines from specific solution partners that can help optimize for scale and business continuity.

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Virtualization for Server Workloads: Avanade Case Study, NetApp Whitepaper

Certification of Solaris 10 as a guest OS on Oracle VM is in progress. Some of you may have already be playing around, so here are a few tips of how to install Solaris 10 OS as a virtual machine under Oracle VM 2.2 environment. Solaris 10 OS runs as a hardware virtual machine (HVM) which requires HVM support (Intel VT or AMD-V) on the underlying hardware platform, but Solaris 10 OS has the paravirtualized (PV) drivers as part of the OS installed by default

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Installing Solaris 10 Virtual Machine with Oracle VM Manager

As many of you are using Hyper-V to host Exchange, SQL and Sharepoint, I’m sure many of you think about backup and recovery of those workloads. If you do, then you’ll be interested to read Jason’s blog post in honor of Data Privacy Day, which is today if you didn’t already have parties planned .

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RT: Happy Data Privacy Day from System Center

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the latest antitrust and IP settlement between Intel and AMD announced a few weeks ago. Not only is this great news for AMD, but it’s also great news for AMD and Intel customers who will all benefit from what will surely become a more fair, open and innovative marketplace. NetworkWorld’s Jon Brodkin posted an interesting story re: what this settlement means for virtualization compatibility and includes a great quote from Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds: “If they [AMD and Intel] were to integrate virtualization more deeply into the processors as a single standard that companies use, it’s possible virtualization could become less expensive.” Personally, I would love to see this kind of standards-based approach to virtualization ( I’ve always been a big fan of this approach ), just as long as we can ensure that innovations in virtualization continue.

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AMD/Intel Settlement and the Cost of Virtualization

As my boss, Wim Coekaerts pointed out on his blog yesterday, there are a number of good, educational videos covering Oracle VM on YouTube, including coverage of some topics for Oracle VM 2.2 (the latest release). Very easy to find, just go to YouTube and search on Oracle VM (or Oracle VM 2.2 to see those specifically). Of course, you’ll also find some videos on reference customers, partners, and even a video interview with me from the Cloud Computing Expo that I mentioned in my earlier blog entry

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Oracle VM Videos On YouTube

It’s been a busy couple of months, as AMD has been working in tandem with Microsoft on their whole suite of “new efficiency” products – namely, Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2. There has been a great deal of excitement over these launches for some time now; and rightfully so

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Live Migration: The Best Keeps Getting Better with AMD Opteron™ Processors

While a lot of folks know me for having a passion (or is it an obsession) for virtualization and cloud computing – many people don’t realize that I am really a refugee from the world of High Performance Computing. This week I get to put on my propeller hat and attend SC09 in Portland to catch up on the leading innovations – and have a chance to say “Aloha” to my former colleagues at the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC). One of the big events of this annual supercomputing conference is the release of the TOP500 Supercomputing List

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AMD CPU and GPU Technology – Flying High in the TOP500 Supercomputer List

We are pleased to announce that Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) 2.2 has been released to Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and Oracle’s Public Yum Repository . The Oracle VM Manager CLI 2.2 is the updated version to work with newly released Oracle VM Manager 2.2 , and it can also work with Oracle VM Manager 2.1.5

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Announcing Oracle VM Manager CLI 2.2

My, my…I just looked back and it has been almost exactly 6 months since my last post to this blog. The time has gone fast as we’ve been working hard on a number of things here ranging from the Virtual Iron acquisition integration (going nicely, thanks…) to a number of other projects that I’ll talk about over the next few posts. I plan to get back into blogging much more regularly as I did all during the Spring

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Virtualization for ‘Cloud’ vs. "Traditional" Virtualization

Enterprise software systems have several needs one of which is supportability. It is critical that your system is supportable in the production environment. Teams that start thinking about supportability during the last stage of a development cycle or when transitioning..

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Service Capabilities Need to Address Supportablility

One of the new features in Oracle VM 2.2 is the ability to set virtual CPU scheduling priority and cap per VM from Oracle VM Manager, which enables you to control access to CPU between multiple virtual machines to align with your IT/business priorities. With this enhancement, users can now control the Quality of Service (QoS) for CPU, network, and disk I/O through the intuitive Oracle VM Manager browser interface. You log into Oracle VM Manager, then proceed to configure the VMs.

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Oracle VM 2.2 New Feature: CPU Scheduling Priority and Cap

Posted an episode on the disadvantages of pursuing a code-first approach to building service capabilities at the reuse podcast series:Download file Episode Highlights: Most development environments provide tools for generating WSDL contracts using annotations or platform-specific tools. Existing classes can…

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Disadvantages of Building Services Code-First

October is pretty active month in the cloud computing space, with two big events happening this week that caught my eye: the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco and the Cloud Adoption Arena virtual event. The Web 2.0 conference is about more than just the Internet; it’s evolved to focus on technologies & business models – particularly cloud computing.

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Cloud Computing: A Look Back and a Look Forward