Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Microsoft
Microsoft Moves into the Clouds
Posted by on October 28, 2008
As you’ve probably seen and I mentioned here earlier Microsoft are laying out their vision for Microsoft-centric cloud computing this week at their Professional Developers Conference. If you’re short of time to understand this there is a good quick overview here, here and here, apologies for lack of posting recently which has been due [...]
Cloud Wars: VMWare vs Microsoft vs Google vs Amazon Clouds
Posted by on October 1, 2008
A short time ago in a data centre, far far away….. All the big players are setting out their cloud pitches, Microsoft are set to make some big announcements at their Professional Developer Conference at the end of October and VMWare made their VDC-OS announcements at VMWorld a couple of weeks ago, Google have [...]
Microsoft now Officially support many of their products under ESX 3.5u2
Posted by on September 5, 2008
As noted here and here, VMWare have had ESX 3.5u2 certified under Microsoft’s SVVP programme, this is excellent news and will knock down one of the long standing barriers to greater adoption of virtualisation as I wrote about here – support. Most notably for me this means blessed support of Exchange 2007sp1 running under [...]
Handy Reference Chart for Microsoft Server Application Licences
Posted by on July 2, 2008
Taken from a download on the Microsoft Partner Licencing Specialist site, the following diagram makes for a useful quick reference chart for what licencing options are applicable to the big MS Server apps – far easier than having to check the product sites and documentation individually if you are trying to spec something up. [...]
Microsoft Blogger on Licencing
Posted by on May 24, 2008
This is a great blog, from one of the licencing managers at Microsoft – Emma has made a good start on providing easy to understand articles on MS licencing in bite sized chunks. It’s not everyone’s favourite topic, but we all have to do it Useful for virtualisation people as there’s a whole section [...]
VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta – Run Multiple Copies of Outlook/Exchange via Unity
Posted by on April 30, 2008
I use a single laptop for my day-day use, it has all the stuff i need, I run Vista and Office 2007, for our corporate mail we use Exchange like everyone else and I use Outlook Cached Mode to work online/offline.. My own personal email is also an Exchange mailbox – provided by fasthosts [...]
VMWare Server Performance – A Practical Example
Posted by on April 19, 2008
The following screen dump is from an HP DL380G5 server that runs all the core infrastructure under VMWare Server (the free one) for a friend’s company which I admin sometimes. It is housed in some co-lo space and runs the average range of Windows servers used by a small but global business, Exchange SQL, [...]
New Microsoft Data Centre is Container Based
Posted by on April 2, 2008
Article here, it’s coming people! Some interesting discussions on how you can measure the productivity of a container and come up with some common metrics to compare and contrast and handle charge-back.
How to Overlay Multiple Calendars in Outlook 2007
Posted by on March 25, 2008
This is a really useful feature; I didn’t realise you could do this (until I had a need to do so, thanks Google!); makes it much easier to look and manage multiple calendars (or people’s shared calendars). Linky here Shame the UI for this isn’t particularly obvious, or at least maybe I’m blind but [...]
Hyper V Release Candidate is Available Today
Posted by on March 19, 2008
I’m at the Windows 2008 Launch event in the Birmingham, UK today. It has just been exclusively announced that the Hyper V Release Candidate is available for download from 5pm (UK time) Today, 19th March. Go download and try it out… full RTM is still promised 180 days from the Feb RTM release of [...]
