Virtualization Summit

I wanted to let you know about a very exciting event (or really series of events) that we are putting on. The Virtualization Summit has been designed to help people understand what their choices are for virtualization.

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.

Are you interested in VDI, do you think Microsoft doesn’t care about VDI? Think again, come and find out.

Please check out the details, and come enjoy the event!

With R2 Microsoft can Dynamically Handle Virtual Workloads

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.

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.

This TechEd Online TechTalk details how Microsoft dynamically handles changes in workloads.

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.

Beyond that, take a listen to the following TechNet Webcast on PRO that describes in detail what PRO is, how it works, talks some on the Partner Integrations we have.

Influencer?

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)?

Become and Influencer!!!

We are looking for folks that have an opinion, and I know you do.

Check out: http://bit.ly/2PfCpT and join Microsoft’s Influencer Program.

New Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for SCVMM 2008 R2 Released

To help an organization answer the age old question,”How do i get started?” Our Solutions Accelerator Team has created an IPD Guide for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 as well as for Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.

These IPD Guides have Step by step processes to help guide an organization down the path of virtualization.

For SCVMM 2008 R2 the flow looks like the following:

For Windows Server 2008 R2 the 9-Step process is below:

 

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.