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19 June 2011 ~ 7 Comments

Free VM Tool – ToutVirtual VirtualIQ Pro – Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and/or VMware

Free VM Tool – ToutVirtual VirtualIQ Pro – Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and/or VMware >>> Download <<< Last week I wrote about Trilead VM Explorer for managing VMware ESX and 3i hosts without vCenter, today I am writing about VirtualIQ Pro which looks like a similar product except VirtualIQ Pro is hypervisor-agnostic supporting both Type [...]

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Useful YouTube Video: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Demo on Quad-Core Intel Xeon

If you’re interested in Microsoft Hype-V Technology, I’ve found viewing the following YouTube video worth the 4-1/2 minutes: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Demo on Quad-Core Intel Xeon

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Best Fit Virtualization Criteria Checklist

Finding servers which are the “Best Fit” canadates for virtualization can be tricky. I have put together the following criteria checklist to help determine whether a new server provision or a P2V should use virtualization. The Best Fit checklist uses my own criteria and weight recommendations but it can be modified with more liberal values.  [...]

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My Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager Event Key Notes

Today I spent 4 hours listening to Microsoft technicians talk about Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and System Center. Here are some of the key notes I took about Hyper-V:   Licensing for Microsoft Server 2008 includes (1P + 1V) – This mean you can have 1 physical Microsoft Server 2008 running Hyper-V and 1 [...]

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