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Written by David Davis, VCP, the intention of this blog is to share with readers the most relevant and important information, news, tips and tweaks for all aspects of Virtualization, focusing on Microsoft Hyper-V. VMware, and Citrix. We will discuss topics such as high availability, migration, performance, recovery, product add-ons, and more. We will also cover practical information to help with administration and management of your virtualization infrastructure.

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Welcome to the Blog of Jason Conger. Here, we will focus on Server Based Computing environments including Microsoft Windows Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server, Application and Server virtualization, Application streaming and delivery technologies such as Microsoft Softricity, and many other server-centric topics. Also, I will point out tools and tips to help you with your Terminal Services environments.

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Microsoft is Relaxing License Restrictions for Easier Virtualization Environments: Date - Aug 27th, 2008; Author - Jason Conger; Microsoft recently announced that starting September 1, 2008 "...customers will be able to move any of 41 Microsoft server applications between servers within a server farm as often as necessary without paying additional licensing fees, and they can take advantage of expanded specialized technical support." This licensing change makes it possible to reassign licenses from one server to another within a server farm as frequently as needed. more...
Virtual Server and Backup Solutions: Date - Aug 27th, 2008; Author - Jason Conger; So, how do you backup virtual servers? Traditionally, there have been two main schools of thought on this. One is to think of the virtual machine as a physical machine and install a backup agent on the VM. Then, just select what you need backed up just as you would a physical machine. more...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with a TS Broker: Date - Aug 26th, 2008; Author - Jason Conger; Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is not really a technology in and of itself. Really, VDI is a combination of technologies. You need hardware virtualization (like VMWare ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Citrix XenServer to name a few). You need some sort of application and/or presentation virtualization (like Citrix XenApp, Microsoft Terminal Services, Provision, etc.) to execute applications on the virtual desktops. You also need a remoting protocol such as RDP, ICA, or SPICE. more...
Performance Tuning for Microsoft Hyper-V VMs: Date - Aug 25th, 2008; Author - Jason Conger; If you are running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V in your environment (or even if you are thinking about running Hyper-V in your environment), then you should definitely take a look at this white paper published by Microsoft titled "Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008". This white paper "...describes important tuning parameters and settings that can result in improved performance for the Windows Server® 2008 operating system. more...
Checkpoint offers Firewall just for virtualized environments: Date - Aug 24th, 2008; Author - David Davis; On August 18, 2008, Checkpoint has announced that they will offer a "virtualized edition" (VE) of their very popular VPN-1 firewall. more...
Download the free VMware VI Toolkit for Windows & Script VMware with Powershell: Date - Aug 23rd, 2008; Author - David Davis; Recently, VMware announced the VI Toolkit version 1.0 for Windows. The VI Toolkit (for Windows) provides a powerful yet simple command line interface for task based management of the VMware Infrastructure platform. Windows Administrators can easily manage and deploy the VMware Infrastructure using Microsoft powershell. To use the VI Toolkit, you would 1) download and install Microsoft Powershell then, 2) download and install the VI Toolkit. more...
Train Signal to announce updated VMware ESX 3.5 course for VMworld 2008 in September: Date - Aug 22nd, 2008; Author - David Davis; This just in - Train Signal - the global leader in computer training for IT Pros - will announce an updated VMware ESX Server 3.5 course available just in time for VMworld 2008 (middle of September). more...
Microsoft will support Windows running in VMware ESX & ESXi: Date - Aug 21st, 2008; Author - David Davis; While Microsoft hasn't officially made the announcement yet, according to Chris Wolf over at the Burton Group (see Chris's post here "It's official - Microsoft to support VMware", Microsoft will now support Windows Server operating systems and Windows Infrastructure applications will be supported when running inside VMware virtualization software. This is due to VMware joining Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). more...
Xen Enterprise 4.1 versus ESX 3.5: Date - Aug 20th, 2008; Author - Jason Conger; During this year's BriForum, Ron Oglesby did an independent performance comparison between the Xen hypervisor and VMWare ESX 3.5. Keep in mind that Ron does not work for either VMWare or Citrix (and, oh yeah, Ron wrote the book on virtualization). I must admit that the results were somewhat surprising. In almost every performance test Xen was comparable and even faster than ESX. But, you don't have to take my work for it. more...
VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta available for download: Date - Aug 20th, 2008; Author - David Davis; On August 14, 2008 VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta. They have a very nice looking new portal for 6.5 that offers some short videos and opportunities to be rewarded for your feedback. more...