tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6447691238626717482024-03-14T02:21:03.284-07:00DanteDog's Virtualization BlogHi, I'm Kenon Owens now from Microsoft. I am continuing this blog to let you know my thoughts on Virtualization as a whole. I, however, want you to know that the postings on this site are my own and do not represent Microsoft’s positions, strategies or opinions.DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-3475050238631360612011-07-08T16:35:00.001-07:002011-07-08T16:35:24.586-07:00F5 Configuration Provider for VMM 2012 Beta<p>I was recently attempting to install the F5 Configuration Provider to work with VMM 2012 Beta, and no matter what I did, the Configuration Provider would not show up in the Settings –> Configuration Providers Section.</p> <p>This was the provider link that I had pulled down from the Connect site for the VMM 2012 Beta. It works with some, but didn’t work with mine.</p> <p>Turns out there is an easy solution. Download and install the updated <a href="http://devcentral.f5.com/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fdevcentral.f5.com%2fdownloads%2fplugins%2fF5LoadBalancerPowerShellSetup-214-x64.zip&tabid=73&mid=3221">F5 Provider</a> from their DevCentral site. After downloading and installing that MSI package, and then restarting the VMM Service, the Provider now shows up in the Settings –> Configuration Provider Section.</p> <p>Note: to restart the VMM Service run (as Administrator):</p> <p>net stop vmmservice</p> <p>net start vmmservice</p> <p>Now to add the BigIP and start some Load Balancing. BTW – F5 has released a Hyper-V BIG-IP v10.x / Virtual Edition VHD. This allows you to create a Hyper-V VM with a Virtual Big-IP v10.x install on it.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-85613829174583722152011-05-24T15:38:00.001-07:002011-05-24T15:38:13.733-07:00VMM 2012 Beta CEP starts on Thursday (May 26th, 2011)<p>Hey, just back from TechEd North America, and wanted to let all of you know about a new thing coming up this Thursday.</p> <p>On Thursday, we are starting our <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2011/05/24/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2012-cep-to-start-may-26th.aspx">VMM 2012 Beta Community Evaluation Program</a>. This will be a Guided Evaluation of all the new, cool features, and use cases. I am really excited about this program, come join up and learn how VMM 2012 will bring you to the Private Cloud.</p> <p>Kenon</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-83307044264660605052011-05-19T14:23:00.001-07:002011-05-19T14:23:45.449-07:00Showing the Private Cloud on the Private Cloud<p>Hey, I’m back (at least for now). I have been writing over on the Microsoft System Center Nexus blog for a while now, and haven’t been writing here. I wanted to resurrect this blog so that I can keep my personal opinions on one blog and my corporate opinions on another.</p> <p>I just recently posted about how, at Microsoft TechEd 2011 we used the <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2011/05/19/showing-the-private-cloud-on-our-own-private-cloud-at-teched-2011.aspx">Private Cloud to show off the Private Cloud</a> in most of the SIM Pods at Teched North America.</p> <p>In that post I showed some pictures of the what it looked like on screen. Here I wanted to show some of the real world what it looked like in real life.</p> <p>First of all, I wanted to thank HynesITe for all of their help in building this Private Cloud. We were able to have many different numbers and sizes of Virtual Machines available and they all were able to be shared on this Private Cloud infrastructure. Take a look at the hardware:</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHlhKAtAI/AAAAAAAAAEc/HSz_EsKZJcg/s1600-h/IMG_1540%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_1540" border="0" alt="IMG_1540" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHl3sxtuI/AAAAAAAAAEg/zMYZYf-WDXA/IMG_1540_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="164" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHmIIW6TI/AAAAAAAAAEk/K6X5-TP8wrU/s1600-h/IMG_1541%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_1541" border="0" alt="IMG_1541" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHmbdEHZI/AAAAAAAAAEo/1H4eSNJDM04/IMG_1541_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="164" /></a></p> <p>I am sure you have all had setups like this. <a href="info@holsystems.com">Corey and Team</a> from HynesITe were at the controls, making sure that everything was running smoothly:</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHmmu1UkI/AAAAAAAAAEs/49TEHvDiRUM/s1600-h/IMG_1624%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_1624" border="0" alt="IMG_1624" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHmhtSrZI/AAAAAAAAAEw/_vf8qurZUZo/IMG_1624_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="164" /></a></p> <p>And the Pod Experience looked like this:</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHm1kuA3I/AAAAAAAAAE0/pSwMv9z7x3w/s1600-h/IMG_1615%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_1615" border="0" alt="IMG_1615" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHmzLIpsI/AAAAAAAAAE4/VNGscyRMoFc/IMG_1615_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="164" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHnAreyBI/AAAAAAAAAE8/XORpNG52Nlo/s1600-h/IMG_1616%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_1616" border="0" alt="IMG_1616" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHnKMwpyI/AAAAAAAAAFA/_Dp7SVYS0h4/IMG_1616_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="164" height="244" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHnYtcWQI/AAAAAAAAAFE/9lV4CSeeEAw/s1600-h/IMG_1617%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_1617" border="0" alt="IMG_1617" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHnuDKwuI/AAAAAAAAAFI/W89-wBTv9Ic/IMG_1617_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="164" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHnhvT7uI/AAAAAAAAAFM/WTqa706i2sg/s1600-h/IMG_1619%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_1619" border="0" alt="IMG_1619" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/TdWHnwmcqMI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/wnIN80hJ_fo/IMG_1619_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="164" /></a></p> <p>The Pods were great, and we were able to show off many more solutions than the 8GB POD Hardware would allow.</p> <p>Private Cloud. WOW!</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-8766295696919772872010-03-06T11:21:00.001-08:002010-03-06T11:21:11.565-08:00Microsoft is “All In” with the Cloud<p>Steve Ballmer made a speech yesterday at the University of Washington detailing <a href="http://www.microsoft.com:80/presspass/presskits/cloud/videogallery.aspx?contentID=ondemand_cloud10&WT.z_convert=Share" target="_blank">Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Strategy</a>.</p> <p>At just over 55 minutes, Steve talked about how, today, Microsoft has about 70% of their developer type people that are focused on the cloud and cloud based or cloud inspired solutions, and that it will be up to 90% in a year. In other words Microsoft is focused heavily on the cloud and is revamping and betting (1:01:21) on making this for the company. This is a Big Shift for Microsoft to be able to handle these disruptions according to Ballmer. Microsoft is built now and prepared for these disruptions.</p> <p>During the talk, Steve talked about how Virtualization as we see/use it today is really used to solve the older problems with innovations, but that in the future, the cloud is more than this. To really take advantage of advances in computing, we not only have to fix the problems that are there today (with the use of Virtualization and such), but innovate differently for the future to make leapfrog and enable new and exciting capabilities.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-52073675596993073402010-02-11T22:46:00.001-08:002010-02-11T22:46:07.071-08:00Virtualization Summit<p>I wanted to let you know about a very exciting event (or really series of events) that we are putting on. The <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/ddcalliance/archive/2010/02/12/announcing-microsoft-virtualization-summit-2010-from-the-desktop-to-the-datacenter.aspx" target="_blank">Virtualization Summit</a> has been designed to help people understand what their choices are for virtualization. </p> <p>Whether you are interested in Desktop Virtualization Solutions, or how IT can use Microsoft Virtualization Solutions in the Datacenter, this will be a great series of events to attend.</p> <p>Are you interested in VDI, do you think Microsoft doesn’t care about VDI? Think again, come and find out.</p> <p>Please check out the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/virtualization-summit.aspx" target="_blank">details</a>, and come enjoy the event!</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-61873412840719324152010-01-26T06:25:00.001-08:002010-01-26T06:25:58.695-08:00SQL Server, a great workload for Hyper-V?<p>People ask me what are good candidates for Virtualization, and can Hpyer-V really run those heavy workloads. I tell them, that with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, almost all workloads are candidates, and when you couple Hyper-V with the great management you get with <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/default.aspx" target="_blank">System Center</a>, you have a great infrastructure platform for virtualization.</p> <p>Yesterday, Vipul Shah, a Senior Product Manager with the Virtualization Team, showed some proof to my statements when he <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/virtplanet/archive/2010/01/26/guest-blog-sql-server-consolidation-with-microsoft-virtualization.aspx">guest posted</a> on Virtualization Planet about how Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and System Center is a great platform for running SQL Server consolidated workloads. He pointed to a newly released <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/server-consolidation.aspx">video</a> by Ted Kummert, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Business Platform Division that outlines how virtualization enables consolidation.</p> <p>This is exciting as we ran some performance tests against a complex stock trading application using a machine with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) and saw good performance throughout the tests. We recently discussed in the <i>Best Practices for SQL Server Virtualization</i> webcast (click <a href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032428764&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US">here</a>) and in the <i>SQL Server Consolidation Guidance</i> (click <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee819082.aspx">here</a>) the results of those tests, and guidance on running SQL as a virtual machine.</p> <p>Other Business Critical Applications like <a href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032428204&CountryCode=US" target="_blank">Microsoft Exchange</a> and Microsoft SharePoint are also fantastic workloads to be consolidated. </p> <p>It is good to see this information getting out there. Thoughts?</p> <p>Kenon</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-27637092927441423062010-01-20T10:52:00.001-08:002010-01-20T10:52:12.035-08:00SCE 2010 RC Released – Mid Market Wonders<p>System Center Essentials is a Mid to Small Market integrated Management solution that combines Physical and Virtual systems Management along with Client Management. It is exciting that this release is coming as now smaller customers will realize a way to fully leverage their physical and virtual infrastructure and increase their efficiencies to provide their organizations top tier IT.</p> <p>Check out this Video: <a href="http://edge.technet.com/Media/Demo-Virtualization-Features-of-Essentials-2010/">Virtualization Features of SCE 2010</a> also, check out the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Systemcenter/essentials/en/us/pricing-licensing.aspx">cost</a>. Yeah, I know this is for SCE2007, but still, customers can see tremendous value, and SCE 2010 will be a GREAT Value as well. Check out this <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91060">whitepaper on licensing</a>.</p> <p>From the SCE PM</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2010/01/19/system-center-essentials-2010-release-candidate-available.aspx">The System Center Essentials 2010 Release Candidate and is now available</a> to the public for <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee470677.aspx">download</a>. This was a huge milestone for the team as it brings together twenty-two months of planning and development to deliver a unified virtual and physical IT management solution for midsize businesses. With almost nine thousand customers registered for the public beta, we look forward to driving even more awareness with the release candidate. Here are the new features and functionality added for RC:</p> <p>· <b>Additional virtualization support: </b>Pro tips integration, Live migration with clustering support, Jobs view</p> <p>· <b>Upgrade / Migration support: </b>TAP customers running beta can upgrade to the RC; Customers running SCEv1 (including running VMM workgroup edition) will be able to upgrade to SCEv2 RTM; Disaster recovery and moving from to a new server while retaining data will be supported in SCEv2 Resource Kit.</p> <p>· <b>Licensing: </b>New workflow for purchase from evaluation; SKUs are buildable with correct license terms.</p> <p>· <b>Agent deployment with WSUS: </b>If a failure occurs deploying Operations Manager agent, SCE will attempt to deploy using WSUS infrastructure.</p> <p>· <b>Localization build & process complete: </b>Completed full test pass on localized build; Localized SCE MP and integrated partner localized MPs into build process.</p> </blockquote> <p>So, Check it out and enjoy!</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-5420989990437796152010-01-14T10:04:00.001-08:002010-01-14T10:04:36.372-08:00Massive iSCSI IOPs for Hyper-V<p>Suzanne Morgan, a Senior Program Manager – Storage and File Systems at Microsoft is presenting a <a href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032432956&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US">webcast</a> today at 11 PST on some fantastic iSCSI performance numbers (Check out this <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2010/01/13/windows-server-2008-r2-hyper-v-iscsi-performance-webcast.aspx">blog</a> for information on the webcast).</p> <p>I don’t want to steal all the thunder from this webcast, but would like to share with you some exciting information. The webcast talks about both Windows Server 2008 R2 iSCSI performance numbers, but also Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V performance numbers.</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/S09cr7qtOSI/AAAAAAAAAD4/aRgsPokGQBo/s1600-h/image%5B7%5D.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/S09csLS53rI/AAAAAAAAAD8/Ip3RpjFzUUQ/image_thumb%5B3%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="389" height="384" /></a> </p> <p>What this graphic shows is that with Hyper-V using Intel VMDq and Microsoft VMQ, we are achieving 750,000+ IOPs, and achieve native throughput at 8k and above block sizes.</p> <p>What does this mean? Well, if you are going to run, say, Microsoft Exchange in a VM hosted on iSCSI storage, you will be able to handle a tremendous amount of mailboxes even under a “heavy” profile.</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/S09csZywLcI/AAAAAAAAAEA/AWly9h7abbU/s1600-h/image%5B8%5D.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/S09cs5GrxrI/AAAAAAAAAEE/HbJuWIaaxbU/image_thumb%5B4%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="424" height="325" /></a> </p> <p></p> <p>Take a listen to the webcast and see where Windows Server 2008 R2 has gotten to.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-84118825542355109002010-01-13T15:48:00.001-08:002010-01-13T15:48:52.834-08:004 Big Guns on a Conference Call Recap<p>Wow! the Microsoft/HP call/<a href="http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2010/100113xa.html">announcement</a> went out and it was great to hear them on the call answering questions.</p> <p>I think Mark Hurd said it best when someone asked isn’t this just the same old, same old? He said something to the fact that if this wasn’t big, you wouldn’t have gotten these people on the phone together. This announcement is going to change the way customers can reap the benefits of virtualization. It is going to be huge.</p> <p>I wrote on it on the <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserverexperts/">Windows Server 2008 R2 Experts Blogs</a> today, so check it out. I think the two things to note for Virtualization are:</p> <ul> <li>HP and Microsoft will put together bundles that make virtualization easier for the masses</li> <ul> <li>Systems designed for Virtualization</li> <li>Management Integrations to make it fly</li> </ul> <li>Where we are going to take the cloud gives our customers endless possibilities</li> </ul> <p>This is going to be fun. </p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-46071384721717736462010-01-12T20:15:00.001-08:002010-01-12T20:15:33.624-08:004 Big Guns and a Conference Call<p>CNET Posted an article a little while ago that tomorrow morning, CEO Steve Ballmer, and HP Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd, along with the president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, Bob Muglia, and HP’s executive vice president and general manager  of their Enterprise Servers and Networking, Enterprise Business, Dave Donatelli will be on a joint <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/stbnewsbytes/archive/2010/01/12/microsoft-and-hp-host-a-joint-teleconference-members-of-the-media-are-invited-to-attend-live-q-a.aspx">teleconference</a> tomorrow morning.</p> <p>That is a lot of firepower out there to take questions about “new, significant investments the two companies are making to help customers and partners prepare for the future of business computing”. </p> <p>Should be an interesting day tomorrow.</p> <p>I will comment more tomorrow.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-39917765877263366162009-12-15T12:19:00.001-08:002009-12-15T12:19:45.295-08:00Tech·Ed North America 2010 Call for Content invitation<p><b>TechEd North America 2010 is just around the corner (well in June). If you are interested in speaking at TechEd, and have an interesting topic you would like to discuss, please follow the instructions below for submitting content and if chosen, we would love to hear about it.</b></p> <p><b>Tech·Ed North America 2010 Call for Content invitation </b></p> <p>We have begun the planning for Tech·Ed North America 2010, which takes place in New Orleans from June 7-10, 2010, and the first step is to request Breakout Session topic ideas from product experts like yourself for the Virtualization track. </p> <p><b><u>Virtualization Track (VIR)</u></b></p> <p>This track will cover all aspects of Virtualization to address the current demands on IT Pros looking to virtualize their environment.  Understand the overall Microsoft Virtualization strategy and where the future of virtualization is heading: in the datacenter, from the client, all the way to the cloud.  Learn about Microsoft products in this space, including <b>Windows Server Hyper-V</b>, <b>Microsoft Hyper-V Server</b>, <b>App-V</b>, <b>MED-V</b>, <b>System Center Suite</b> of tools (including System Center Virtual Machine Manager and System Center Operations Manager), <b>Remote Desktop Services</b> (Terminal Services), and our new <b>Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for Enterprises</b>. Beyond just understanding the current product capabilities, the attendees will also learn about the future directions and plans, and what we think the market and the other platforms will do over the next few years.</p> <p><b>Steps for Call for Content submissions:</b></p> <ol> <li>Go to: <a href="https://northamerica.msteched.com/CFT">https://northamerica.msteched.com/CFT</a></li> <li>Enter RSVP Access Code : RSVP10-VIR</li> <li>Complete all the fields and submit the topic/s you’re interested in presenting</li> <li>When returning to the Call for Content site, use the e-mail alias and password you entered when creating your Call for Content profile to review or edit your submission, or to submit another topic. </li> </ol> <p><b>Deadline for Submissions:  January 15, 2010</b></p> <p>Breakout Sessions are the primary way Tech·Ed attendees receive Microsoft content. These sessions are lecture-style presentations held in rooms seating anywhere from 200-1,200 people. Breakouts are 75-minutes in length and speakers use PowerPoint slides and demos; leaving 10-15 minutes at the end to answer questions. These sessions are recorded and available at Tech·Ed Online to all paid attendees from the 10 Tech·Ed conferences held around the world during the 12 months following Tech·Ed North America. </p> <p><b>Additional conference information</b></p> <p>The following information will be helpful as you think about the session/s you are going to submit and, if selected, present at Tech·Ed.</p> <p>Tech·Ed is Microsoft's premier global conference designed to provide developers and IT professionals with the technical education, product information and community resources they need to design, develop, manage, secure, and mobilize state-of-the-art software solutions for a connected enterprise. Content focuses on current and soon-to-release (before June 2011) Microsoft products, technologies and services. </p> <p>At Tech·Ed North America 2009, 70 percent of Tech·Ed attendees were IT professionals with the majority being Infrastructure Managers (48%) and IT Mangers (28%). They were interested in the best ways to plan, design, deploy, manage and secure connected enterprise systems. The remaining 30% of attendees were developers -- programmers (41%), architects (28%), designers (20%), and developer managers (12%) -- who wanted to dive deeper into the latest enterprise development solutions using Microsoft's developer tools, frameworks, and platforms.  </p> <p><b>Review and notification</b></p> <p>· Session submissions are reviewed to determine which best meet the needs of the Tech·Ed audience, adhere to the Track framework and content focus, and fulfill the messaging requirements of the product groups.  </p> <p>· Session selections will be made and you will be notified by e-mail in February 2010.</p> <p>Thank you for your time. We look forward to seeing your Breakout Session ideas. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about the submission process or would like to discuss topic ideas.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-76765032325221578482009-12-07T16:16:00.001-08:002009-12-07T16:16:03.122-08:00Blogging on Because it’s everybody’s business Site<p>IT isn't the easiest thing in the world, but it may be one of the most fun. It is amazing how folks see a challenge and then overcome it. Microsoft has created a place to help folks get through these challenges. <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/everybodysbusiness/en/au/default.aspx">Because it's everybody's business</a> is your one stop shop for finding out about how we can help you face and surpass the challenges you come across everyday. It also shows how IT folks just like yourselves are becoming more efficient and saving money with Microsoft Technology. Why am I writing about it here? Well, they have asked me to be a Virtualization Expert on the site, blogging about the challenges customers face and how Microsoft Virtualization can help. I kicked off the blog with the following <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserverexperts/archive/2009/12/07/virtualization-and-a-virtual-introduction.aspx">entry</a>, and will continue to post on a regular basis. </p> <p>Check it out. </p> <p>Kenon</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-47448232554920696892009-11-18T09:31:00.001-08:002009-11-18T09:33:04.829-08:00With R2 Microsoft can Dynamically Handle Virtual Workloads<p>Unless you have been under a rock for the past 6 months, you have probably heard that Microsoft now has the ability to move a running Virtual Machine from one box to another without downtime. With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, or the free version Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, we now have Live Migration capabilities. This was a feature that was lacking with the previous version and a major blocker for adoption by some organizations.</p> <p>Now, Live Migration is available, great, but do I still have to manually pick and choose which VMs to move from one location to another. Answer, No, you don’t. </p> <div id="silverlightControlHost">This <a href="http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=8c0f6298-8a32-4d2e-8f47-21e0fbb07264">TechEd Online TechTalk</a> details how Microsoft dynamically handles changes in workloads.</div> <div><iframe style="border-right-width: 0px; width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; border-left-width: 0px"></iframe></div> <p>Even before Microsoft released Hyper-V R2 with Live Migration Capabilities, they released a capability within the System Center Suite of Tools called PRO Tips (or Performance and Resource Optimization Tips) that, through the use of Management Packs in Operations Manager, monitors aspects of the Physical Layer, Virtual Layer, or Application Layer, and when an alert is generated, can automatically (or manually) take action within the Virtual environment. This video explains how PRO works, and discusses the benefits of PRO to enable a dynamic infrastructure.</p> <p>Beyond that, take a listen to the following TechNet Webcast on <a href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032429330">PRO</a> that describes in detail what PRO is, how it works, talks some on the Partner Integrations we have.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-15035167903432726732009-11-10T17:43:00.001-08:002009-11-10T17:43:52.300-08:00Influencer?<p>Do you have opinions and ideas? Would you like to share your thoughts on Virtualization and System Center (or Management as others would call it)?</p> <p>Become and Influencer!!!</p> <p>We are looking for folks that have an opinion, and I know you do.</p> <p>Check out: <a href="http://bit.ly/2PfCpT">http://bit.ly/2PfCpT</a> and join Microsoft’s Influencer Program.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-34626277048283125952009-11-03T15:31:00.001-08:002009-11-03T15:31:06.240-08:00Microsoft Site Recovery Solutions Launch<p>An interesting <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/virtplanet/archive/2009/11/03/microsoft-site-recovery-solution-launch.aspx">Post</a> today by Jim Schwartz, Director Virtualization Solutions, at Microsoft.</p> <p>Basically, we are leveraging the openness of our Platform to allow partners to develop solutions that meet a customer’s particular need. In this case it is Site Recovery.</p> <blockquote> <p>Despite tough times, an Enterprise Strategy Group study shows that<b><i> </i></b><b><i>31% of businesses surveyed said DR will be their main driver for Virtualization in 2009.</i></b></p> </blockquote> <p>These are some exciting solutions, and I can’t wait for the <a href="http://searchwindowsserver.bitpipe.com/data/document.do;jsessionid=A62722F1FCBFABA0BBCFDCF69D5AE73A?res_id=1256150149_996">webcast</a> to see what this will provide.</p> <p>Take a look at the article, and let me know what you think of the webcast.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-69141853324379989362009-09-24T10:22:00.001-07:002009-09-24T10:31:02.504-07:00New Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for SCVMM 2008 R2 Released<p>To help an organization answer the age old question,”How do i get started?” Our Solutions Accelerator Team has created an IPD Guide for <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/09/24/infrastructure-planning-and-design-guide-for-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2008-r2-now-available.aspx">System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2</a> as well as for <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/09/24/announcing-the-availability-of-the-updated-infrastructure-planning-and-design-guides-for-virtualization-and-system-center.aspx">Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V</a>. </p> <p>These IPD Guides have Step by step processes to help guide an organization down the path of virtualization.</p> <p>For SCVMM 2008 R2 the flow looks like the following:</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/SruqyeRKTHI/AAAAAAAAADc/QMSaVRUUFEw/s1600-h/IPD-SCVMM2008R2-flowchart1%5B2%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="IPD-SCVMM2008R2-flowchart1" border="0" alt="IPD-SCVMM2008R2-flowchart1" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/Sruqy98dOsI/AAAAAAAAADg/UnoSautlzD4/IPD-SCVMM2008R2-flowchart1_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="180" height="244" /></a> <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/SruqzeS49FI/AAAAAAAAADk/V_5Ojeh5t-Y/s1600-h/IPD-SCVMM2008R2-flowchart2%5B2%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="IPD-SCVMM2008R2-flowchart2" border="0" alt="IPD-SCVMM2008R2-flowchart2" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/SruqzyyDGXI/AAAAAAAAADo/48fzo7J-aIU/IPD-SCVMM2008R2-flowchart2_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="188" height="244" /></a></p> <p>For Windows Server 2008 R2 the 9-Step process is below:</p> <p> <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/Sruq0X9bBSI/AAAAAAAAADs/da__a9gifUQ/s1600-h/IPD-WSV-Updated-flowchart-v1%5B2%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="IPD-WSV-Updated-flowchart-v1" border="0" alt="IPD-WSV-Updated-flowchart-v1" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bQvXcfe7bO0/Sruq0ir2suI/AAAAAAAAADw/UPXWnlqmM-g/IPD-WSV-Updated-flowchart-v1_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="199" /></a> </p> <p>These Guides are great and really help people embark on the journey towards virtualization where they can achieve the benefits of virtualizing their infrastructure more quickly than doing it on their own.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-53857714161812240292009-09-22T12:43:00.001-07:002009-09-22T12:43:25.421-07:00Still Strong after almost 2 years - Hey Dad MS Licensing Video<p>Back around this time in 2007, while I was still a Staff Systems Engineer over at VMware, I had a lunchtime meeting with an enemy TSP, Michael Cooper, from Microsoft. There we discussed how MS licensing (of the OS) in a Virtual environment worked. When could you VMotion (Live Migrate) these VMs, and what were the repercussions of the 90 Day Rule.</p> <p>We actually did this with sweetener packets on the table and it really cleared things up for me.</p> <p>From there, a year ago last January (2008), I created a First in a short lived (1) series of Videos called “Hey Dad”, where I worked with my kids to produce a little documentary on how the <a href="http://dantedog29.blogspot.com/2008/01/microsoft-licensing-policies-for.html">MS Licensing policy works</a>.</p> <p>I thought it was a nice video, and everyone that saw it seemed to understand the MS licensing scheme better. One of the coolest things about it was when someone from MS Europe sent me a request asking if they could use the Video in one of their internal trainings. Internal Trainings. At the time, I though, wow, shouldn’t this be easier? I get it, it doesn’t seem that hard, but really most people don’t, and hopefully after watching the video, they will.</p> <p>Nearly two years later, and it is still one of the definitive training videos for MS Licensing of OSs in the Virtual World as referenced by one of <a href="http://richfrombechtle.wordpress.com/">Rich from Bechtle’s</a> latest Blog <a href="http://richfrombechtle.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/microsoft-virtual-licensing/">Microsoft & Virtual Licensing</a></p> <p>It is nice to see it still working. Now to expand the series for Licensing MS Apps in a Virtual World…</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-59049991980540063202009-09-08T10:16:00.000-07:002009-09-08T10:22:34.623-07:00VMworld 2009 Wrap-Up<p>Wow, how to sum it all up. Definitely, VMworld was fun, and VMware puts on a nice conference. I would have to say, however, that I was a little disappointed.</p> <p>The keynotes didn’t show anything new? Everything I saw there was really everything I saw at VMworld Europe (in fact it was pretty much the same stuff I saw at last year’s VMworld), and to be honest, I think they presented it better at VMworld Europe. I wasn’t the only one to think so (Mike Laverick at rtfm-ed.co.uk): </p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=1683">And that was it. So nothing too radical or shocking - and more or less a restatement of the agenda in Canne…</a></p> </blockquote> <p>If you happened to stay until the very end, you got a few seconds on SpringSource, but even that seemed not put together very well.</p> <p>They did finish a big release cycle, and probably the next major release is a few years off, so they may not have the roadmap down right now, perhaps that is what it was.</p> <p>There were a couple of sessions that I liked, but mostly, those were flat as well. The VMware Head to Head vs. Microsoft and Citrix was interesting, but obviously they are going to only show their good side there and put us in the most unfavorable light that they can.</p> <p>The part I liked the best was the Solutions Exchange. Being the “little guy” at the conference, there was a definite feeling of excitement. It felt very similar to when I first started with VMware and was at the LinuxWorld conference. There was a feeling in the Microsoft Booth and with the customers and partners that I talked with where they wanted to work with us. As I was walking around the booths, or tweeting away, I was contacted by many different partners, and there was this energy about it. From <a href="http://www.datacore.com/">DataCore</a> and their help with my 3 Laptop Demo (which I didn’t show at the show), to <a href="http://www.panologic.com/">Pano Logic</a> to Citrix, to all of the partners at the show. They all seemed to want to work with us.</p> <p>Everyone was really upbeat about Microsoft’s advances, and when we talked with customers, more and more “light bulbs” went off. I can really do all of that? It costs only that much? WOW!</p> <p>It was really good seeing all of my old friends from VMware (and some from other companies), and though there were some awkward silences (when conversation switched to business), it was the best part of the whole show.</p> <p>It is a two horse race now, and we are coming in strong. This year is going to be exciting, and I can’t wait.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-24055186221741229252009-09-03T01:16:00.001-07:002009-09-03T01:16:39.974-07:00Self Paced Rave<p>Awesome!!!</p> <p>Such a fantastic time! Props to the VMware Lab Team! Who actually did a lab last night? </p> <p>It was great seeing all my friends at the SPR last night (next year I need to get the VIP Pass). Music was great, drinks were flowing, people were talking, and I am sure EVERYONE had a great time.</p> <p>Best part of the show.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-46073645152390807502009-09-02T19:15:00.001-07:002009-09-02T19:15:41.708-07:00Day 2 Wrap-Up<p>Today was an interesting day. I sat and watched the <a href="http://dantedog29.blogspot.com/2009/09/dr-stephen-herrods-keynote.html">Day 2 Keynote</a>, looking at what VMware shows as the vision for the future.</p> <p>I then went to watch a session on Virtualizing Exchange EA2631</p> <p>I learned some things there: </p> <p>Exchange has made itself (over time) better suited for Virtualization from Exchange 2003 –> Exchange 2007 –> Exchange 2010 due to less IO, and better design. Also, ESX has improved and the computers have evolved, so they have all joined together.</p> <p>But on the MS Front, we have updated out sites with some new information from our Exchange and Virtualization Team on Virtualizing this Tier 1 application. Check out <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/09/02/Microsoft-Virtualization_3A00_-Best-Choice-for-MS-Server-Applications.aspx">Zane’s Blog Post</a> for more information.</p> <p>After lunch I went to the VMware Head to Head comparison of VMware vSphere and ESX and Hyper-V with some SCVMM, and Citrix. It would have been a better conversation if it would actually have been more than one side. Their big comments on Architecture differences and memory overcommitment were old and tired. They were biased and based on conjecture. They commented that our “integrated” solution is a bunch of applications which we do need to work on, but when they showed them all, they showed many twice, and and some that you wouldn’t use except in some cases, but not when loading other apps that they showed.</p> <p>They said we don’t have a Host Profile equivalent, when if you look at what System Center Configuration Manager does, it does a lot of what Host Profiles does. Of course they didn’t mention that to get Host Profiles, customers would have to buy the Enterprise Plus SKU.</p> <p>They failed to mention that if you are comparing vSphere with Microsoft Solutions, you have to include all of the SMSD products, NOT just VMM and a little OM. </p> <p>They failed to mention that you have to pay 3 times more to get a VMware Solution than you would have to pay to get the comparable solution from Microsoft, I wonder why?</p> <p>Are we Enterprise Class? Yes, we are.</p> <p>Do we have some work to do? Yes, we do.</p> <p>Is VMware scared? Yes, they are.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-2650494470040357502009-09-02T17:59:00.001-07:002009-09-02T17:59:29.460-07:00Dr. Stephen Herrod’s Keynote<p>I always enjoy Day 2 Keynotes at VMworld. You always get to see something new. Dr. Stephen Herrod started the keynote today by sliding VMware View over to the left emphasizing that it is the biggest focus for VMware right now. He says managing the desktops will be the same as managing the servers. I don’t think that is the right way to look at it. Yeah, I believe it resonates to Server guys, but there are many, MANY differences between how you have to manage the desktop and the datacenter. It seems to VMware, that (like one of our TSPs told me at a conference earlier):</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hammer">When all you have is a Hammer, everything looks like a nail</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Key agreement with rto Virtual Profiles coupled with the ThinApp “bubble”. Create a master image of the OS, plop it down and keep each app out there encapsulated on its own.</p> <p><strong>Best User Experience to All Endpoints</strong> – From a WAN to a LAN environment to Local so you can run it on the net, and on the local machine to leverage the “Media” devices (Graphics, etc). PCoIP releasing later this year.</p> <p><strong>Employee-Owned IT</strong> – rebrand, revamp of ACE – VM on a DVD, or running directly on the laptop No host OS, Client Hypervisor (Client Virtualization Platform (CVP)) with Intel vPro. They have Win7 x64 running in a VM with the CVP underneath.</p> <p><strong>VMware Mobile Strategy</strong> – VCMA – a mobile app to manage your vCenter and now VMware View environment</p> <p><strong>Mobile Phone to Mobile Personal Computer</strong> - “Device Freedom” Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP), and “Application Freedom”</p> <p align="left"><strong>All of this client stuff, still makes me think that they are trying to adapt and fit VDI as the solution for everything. Really now, shouldn’t it be that the customer should use the whole toolbox and not just the hammer. VDI works for some cases, but Terminal Services is better for other, and App-V solves other solutions. If you have a local user that needs to run a policy encapsulated VM, MedV will give you this. Microsoft has the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/products/desktop/default.mspx">Desktop solution</a> that you can use for the challenges you face.</strong></p> <p><strong>VMotion the Foundation of the Giant Computer</strong> – First VMotion, then Storage VMotion, then Network VMotion (Distributed Virtual Switch), now Long Distance VMotion</p> <p>New workload – HPC</p> <p><strong>DRS</strong> – Shuffling VMs around for best performance. Squeezing more out of your systems, extending soon to include IO not just CPU and Memory. Tiering the needs and the applications with the Resources around you.</p> <p>This could be interesting if they DRS the VMs, and also the Storage as your storage IO patterns change.</p> <p><strong>AppSpeed</strong> – Nothing new</p> <p><strong>vApp</strong> – IT Service Policy Descriptor SLA as metadata to the group of VMs using OVF.</p> <p><strong>VMsafe</strong> – Always on Security and Compliance via APIs. Aware of the application running in the VM, not the VM, so it can be smart in what it protects and secures.<strong></strong></p> <p><strong>Choice – </strong>Lab Manager to allow for self service portals. </p> <p><strong>Long Distance vMotion</strong> – Proactively move the DC when certain events will occur. Cisco with it Data Center Interconnect up to 200 km. F5 uses BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager to move different iSessions around.</p> <p><strong>VMware vCloud API</strong> – Programmatic Access to resources, Self Service Portals, vSphere Client Plugin (one vCenter to view local and Cloud resources).</p> <p>After moving View to the left, they now added vApps to the right as a fourth pillar. vSphere provides IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). Software is Middleware and Tools that is combined and hooked underneath termed PaaS (Platform as a Service). The middle yellow bar is the Automated, Policy enforcement, scalability. Developers only need to know the application interface, they don’t need to be bothered with anything else, and then there is SaaS (Software as a Service).</p> <p><strong>PaaS</strong> – Open set of interfaces for Ruby on Rails, Python, .Net, PHP, Rod says we want the developers happy, we want them to know about this as little as possible but enough to be productive. Can be deployed internally and externally, wherever.</p> <p><strong>How popular are these different interfaces? <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/windowsazure.mspx">Azure</a> provides this to our Developer community.</strong></p> <p><strong>SpringSource</strong> - </p> <p>Take advantage of the revolution…</p> <p>I don’t see a revolution here, but I think some of the new capabilities are nice, and looking forward to see how we respond.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-47971315903621771202009-09-02T01:12:00.001-07:002009-09-02T01:12:25.584-07:00TA3438 – Performance Improvements of vSphere…<p>Or something like that. Was Top 10 blah blah blah in the syllabus, doesn’t matter, it was good. Richard McDougall was really good at showing the performance improvements of vSPhere 4 (actually of ESX Server 4). </p> <p>He broke them down into a few different categories and the major improvements there:</p> <table border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="123"> <p align="center"><strong>Category</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="273"> <p align="center"><strong>Improvement</strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="123"> <p align="center">CPU</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="273"> <ul> <li>Relaxed CoScheduling</li> <li>Extended Fairness Support</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="123"> <p align="center">Monitor</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="273"> <ul> <li>2nd Generation Hardware Assist</li> <li>Large Page Support</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="123"> <p align="center">Disk</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="273"> <ul> <li>350,000 IOPS up from 100,000 IOPS</li> <li>Reduced IO Overhead by 50%</li> <li>Asynchronous IO forks offload IO to a different core</li> <li>Paravirtualized SCSI driver</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>He also talked about DRS improvements.</p> <p>He made a comment that not all hypervisors are the same, and that just leveraging the hardware improvements of the processors isn’t enough. There is more to virtualization, and the vmkernel provides much in terms of access, scheduling, and IO access.</p> <p>I agree that all hypervisors aren’t the same, BUT all hypervisors now give you quality performance near native, for most things, isn’t that enough?</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-25166234407287776342009-09-01T21:06:00.001-07:002009-09-01T21:06:40.800-07:00BW4740 – Evangelizing the Value Proposition<p>We all know Virtualization is great, and it saves customers money. As Todd said in the keynote, Virtualization saves Financial Energy, Human Energy, and Earth’s Energy.</p> <p>But, how do you demonstrate this savings to your upper management. How can you translate these IT Benefits into Business Value your Exec’s can understand.</p> <table border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="198"> <p align="center"><strong>IT Benefit</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="198"> <p align="center"><strong>Solve Business Needs</strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="198"> <p align="center">Consolidate Resources</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="198"> <p align="center">Lower Capital Costs</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="198"> <p align="center">Reduce Complexity</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="198"> <p align="center">Lower Operational Costs</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="198"> <p align="center">Automated Management</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="198"> <p align="center">Increased Agility</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="198"> <p align="center">Availability and Disaster Recovery</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="198"> <p align="center">Reduce Downtime</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="198"> <p align="center">improved security</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="198"> <p align="center">Reduce Business Risk and Increased Governance</p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>From there, you can show them output from an ROI calculator. VMware’s ROI Calculator was created by Alinean, our ROI Calculator was created by Alinean as well. Take either of these reports and look at the results. YOU WILL SAVE MONEY WITH VIRTUALIZATION.</p> <p>Now look at them, and remove the cost for VMware, that is what you will save with Microsoft. </p> <p>If you are running Microsoft Operating Systems in the Guests, you buy the Windows Server Datacenter Edition and apply it to the host. Once applied, you can run unlimited Server VMs on that box (regardless of Virtualization Solution), but, with Hyper-V that license also includes the Virtualization Layer. With VMware you would have to buy a vSphere Bundle with that cost added ON TOP of the cost you are already paying for the Guest OS license where you get a Virtualization solution included. </p> <p>If you are managing these Guests with System Center Configuration Manager, and System Center Operations Manager, then get the Server Management Suite Datacenter bundle to save money, and once you bundle with SMSD, you get SCOM, SCCM, SCDPM, and SCVMM. So you have the management pieces, and you don’t need to buy the vSphere Bundle.</p> <p>You need to understand how Virtualization will save you money versus physical. What you really need to do is justify your Virtualization Solution of choice. As all of them will save you money, why not save the most and go with the Microsoft Solution?</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-15818382959130536322009-09-01T19:47:00.001-07:002009-09-01T19:47:02.589-07:00EA3605 – Virtualizing Tier 1 Apps<p>VMware shows some graphs on good performance with Tier 1 Apps (Exchange, SQL, etc). Trying to give the customers ammo they can take back to get these apps virtualized.</p> <p>Performance can’t be the issue now. It has to be “server huggers” or people afraid of change as the platform whether Hyper-V or ESX can run the workload.</p> <p>They were talking about VMware products like vApps, FT, AppSpeed for monitoring, but the story isn’t all there today.</p> <p>AppSpeed seems nice, but if you are running the SMSD suite of products, you can EASILY monitor your SQL servers and Exchange, and the apps you are using. System Center gives you insight into what is going on with your apps as well as your Guest OS, your Physical Systems, and the Virtualization Infrastructure.</p> <p>FT only works for UP VMs, so doesn’t work for a Tier 1 app, but it will be nice when it does.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644769123862671748.post-14226945323546041192009-09-01T19:16:00.001-07:002009-09-01T19:16:29.284-07:00Join the New “C2D” Facebook Page<p>Please take time to join the new Microsoft Facebook page, “Client to Datacenter” at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Client-to-Datacenter/243255745091">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Client-to-Datacenter/243255745091</a>. </p> <p>As a companion to the existing Virtualization Facebook page (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Microsoft-Virtualization/33629325535">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Microsoft-Virtualization/33629325535</a>) and the System Center Facebook page (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/System-Center/150083395545">http://www.facebook.com/pages/System-Center/150083395545</a>), its intent is to pull together the overall Microsoft management + virtualization story, and make it easier for us to give our friends in the community a central place on Facebook to connect, comment, and get updates. In time, we will fill this in and draw a closer connection with our other social media presences on the Web.</p> <p>· <b>What you get out of it?</b> A one-stop-shop for System Center and Microsoft Virtualization, and an easy way to find and connect with others in the community.</p> <p>· <b>What we get out of it?</b> A way to better engage with the community in the exciting playground of social media.</p> DanteDog29http://www.blogger.com/profile/07164200451872951182noreply@blogger.com0