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Configure Hyper-V Remote Management in secondsNovember 17

Announcing "HVRemote"...., a tool to "automagically" configure Hyper-V Remote Management. (Amazing what can be done with a few days vacation to kill before you lose them at the end of the year....).

I'm not going into the gory detail here as I've created a PDF containing the documentation, and a site on http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/HVRemote where you can download the tool and the documentation. All I ask, is that if you find the tool useful, drop me an email or a comment. Thanks!

What does the tool do: It reduces the manual configuration steps needed for Hyper-V Remote Management that I blogged about back in March this year 1, 2,

SCVMM VNext infoNovember 3

Rakesh Malhotra: The team is already hard at work on the next release to align with the Windows Server 2008 R2 hypervisor update. Like this release, there will be a short gap between the platform update and the management update but we'll align the releases as close as possible (incidentally, the reason it takes us a little extra time is because once the platform has shipped and everything is "locked", we still need to run through a final battery of tests and stabilization just to make sure everything works as advertised). As we showed back in September, Live Migration will make it's debut in Windows Server 2008 R2 and SCVMM VNext will take advantage of that feature in addition to all of the other new functionality going into the R2 release.

An "R2" server release isn't as large of an incremental update as compared to a completely new major release version of the server OS. This tends to make it easier to adopt since the retesting/certification of applications effort can be more scoped. Of course, if you're using Hyper-V strictly as a virtual machine host and running business applications inside of virtual machines, it will be very straightforward to upgrade to 2K8 R2 since the applications will be isolated from the hypervisor OS update. SCVMM 2008 already supports the VMware VMotion feature directly and indirectly via PRO so adding live migration support isn't going to "change the game" if you will. The key thing we'll continue to invest in and improve is provi

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Virtualizing SQL Server 2008 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-VOctober 30

Design and configure SQL Server 2008 with High-Availability while leveraging the new features of Windows Server 2008 Clustering and Hyper-V virtualization at this session. Get an in-depth understanding of the new features in SQL Server 2008 high-availability and enhancements such as mirroring and much more!

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Managing Virtualization 360 from the Datacenter to the DesktopOctober 30

Learn about the foundation of the Microsoft virtualization strategy and solutions in this session. Understand the meaning and benefits of virtualization and also gain insights into the overall Microsoft virtualization strategy that range from the desktop to the data center. Hear from the experts as they clear up misconceptions about virtualization, describe virtualization solutions, and examine suitable workloads that would benefit from virtualization!

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