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For the whole month of June Microsoft scheduled a serie of webcast about Virtual Server 2005 R2 and the future Windows Server Virtualization (read the announcement and the Q&A).

The sixth one and most interesting one, scheduled for June 29, has following summary:

Join this webcast to learn more about Windows virtualization, a new technology in Microsoft Windows Server code-named ?Longhorn.? We introduce the key scenarios for Windows virtualization and new features and improvements in Microsoft Virtual Server, including better performance. Find out how you can start adopting Microsoft Virtual Server today and transition to Windows virtualization by leveraging the unified format.

Look at it here or download just slides here.

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For the whole month of June Microsoft scheduled a serie of webcast about Virtual Server 2005 R2 and the future Windows Server Virtualization (read the announcement and the Q&A).

The fifth one, scheduled for June 27, has following summary:

This webcast covers scripting basics with the Component Object Model (COM) API. Learn how to use scripting to automate management tasks in a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 environment. We also provide detailed examples of how scripts can be integrated with Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) to more easily manage your entire virtual environment.

Register here.

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For the whole month of June Microsoft scheduled a serie of webcast about Virtual Server 2005 R2 and the future Windows Server Virtualization (read the announcement and the Q&A).

The forth one, scheduled for June 22, has following summary:

If your organization is planning a branch office server consolidation, this webcast is for you. Join us to receive guidance on what you should consider before, during, and after a server consolidation, and the role virtualization can play in this scenario. Learn how to identify whether your branch office servers can be virtualized, and if there are benefits to virtualization for your scenario. During this session, we provide you with the details, tips, and tricks needed to create an effective virtualized environment. We also walk you through a step-by-step process of planning, deploying, and managing a virtual environment in a branch office.

Register here.

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For the whole month of June Microsoft scheduled a serie of webcast about Virtual Server 2005 R2 and the future Windows Server Virtualization (read the announcement and the Q&A).

The third one, scheduled for June 20, has following summary:

Join this webcast to learn about the virtualization of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and the differences between multi-instancing and virtualization. We provide details, tips, and tricks for creating an effective virtualization environment, and walk you step by step through the process of planning, deploying, and managing a virtual environment for SQL Server 2005.

Register here.

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For the whole month of June Microsoft scheduled a serie of webcast about Virtual Server 2005 R2 and the future Windows Server Virtualization (read the announcement and the Q&A).

The second one, scheduled for June 08, has following summary:

Join this webcast to learn about virtualization of infrastructure workloads such as Active Directory, file and print, and Web servers, and the benefits of mixed workload virtualization. We discuss details, tips, and tricks for creating an effective virtualization environment. During this session, we walk you step by step through the process of planning, deploying, and managing a virtual environment for infrastructure workloads.

Look at it here here or download just slides here.

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For the whole month of June Microsoft scheduled a serie of webcast about Virtual Server 2005 R2 and the future Windows Server Virtualization (read the announcement and the Q&A).

The first one, scheduled for June 05, has following summary:

In this webcast we focus on virtualization technology and we offer an introduction to Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. We also outline Microsoft’s vision for the technology over the next few years. This session provides a high-level overview of the different solutions that you can implement with virtualization.

Look at it here or download just slides here.

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Quoting from the AMD official announcement:

In demonstration of AMD’s open and collaborative approach to innovation, Senior Vice President, Commercial Segment Marty Seyer detailed three complementary strategic initiatives designed to accelerate industry-wide innovation on the AMD64 platform.

• …
• “Trinity” is AMD’s strategy to uniquely link, through an open approach, security, virtualization and manageability technologies. “Trinity” is intended to enable greater flexibility and reduced costs associated with managing, securing and scaling commercial client and server platforms. Through “Trinity”, AMD will provide open and extensible software tools to OEM partners, providing a framework for enhanced IT platform management and security. Elements of “Trinity” were available in recently announced socket AM2 client platforms, with additional roll-outs expected this year.

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It’s very unclear what Trinity exactly is or will be. Analyst Day presentation doesn’t add anything more.

Summary
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 is Microsoft’s server-side virtualization product. Virtual Server has been designed to allow users a great deal of power and flexibility in hosting virtual machines in mission-critical Enterprise deployments without having to invest in additional hardware.

In this clear and concise book, Microsoft MVP Anil Desai discusses the benefits of virtualization technology and covers the essentials of working with Virtual Server 2005, including installation, configuration, creating a virtual machine, and installing a guest operating system. It covers the technical architecture of Virtual Server, topics related to disk, CPU, memory, and network resources, as well as procedures for administering host and guest operating systems.

While this book is a superb introduction to Virtual Server 2005, it also covers advanced topics, such as the methods and practices for improving host resource utilization and for monitoring virtual machine performance. This book is the recommended prerequisite reading for the forthcoming book from Rational Press, The Rational Guide To Scripting Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, which focuses on programming Virtual Server 2005 with scripting and automation.

Technical accuracy is assured by Mike Sterling, Program Manager on the Windows Virtualization team at Microsoft.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 – Benefits of Virtualization
• Chapter 2 – Virtualization Concepts
• Chapter 3 – Planning for Virtualization
• Chapter 4 – Installing and Configuring Virtual Server
• Chapter 5 – Setting Up a New Virtual Machine
• Chapter 6 – Configuring Virtual Machine Hardware
• Chapter 7 – Understanding Virtual Disk Architecture
• Chapter 8 – Networking Architecture
• Chapter 9 – Virtual Server Security
• Chapter 10 – Managing CPU and Memory Resources

Abouth the Author
Anil Desai, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, is a Microsoft MVP in the area of “Windows – Servers.” As an independent consultant based in Austin, TX, Anil specializes in evaluating, implementing, and managing solutions based on Microsoft technologies. He has worked extensively with Microsoft’s Server products and the .NET development platform.

Anil is the author of numerous technical books focusing on the Windows Server Platform, Virtualization, Active Directory, SQL Server 2000, and IT management. He has made dozens of conference presentations at national events and is also a contributor to technical magazines.

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VMware is finally approaching the release of Server (formerly GSX Server) launching a new build (24927) labeled as release candidate 1.

Apart bug fixes this build provides:

• Enhanced performance optimizations
• Experimental support for SUSE Linux 10.1 as guest and host operating system
• Experimental support for 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD 6.0 as guest operating systems

Download it here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

Quoting from CRN:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will enter beta testing in late July and ship in December, executives said Wednesday.

Beta 1 of the server is slated to be available in late July and Beta 2 – which will incorporate the Fedora Core 6 build — is planned for release in mid September, said Daniel Riek, a product manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, based in Westford, Mass.
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RHEL 5 will include core virtualization based on the Xen open source virtualization hypervisor as well as integration with the company’s directory and certificate servers. It will also offer support for Intel and AMD virtualization extensions, stateless Linux clients, single sign-on and an improved driver model for third party ISVs
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“The release schedule depends on Xen readiness … It’s the only real gatekeeper on the schedule,” Carr said. “If Xen isn’t ready, we’ll wait until it is and there isn’t anything else we’ll wait for.”…

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