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Welcome to the Blog of Ben Armstrong.
I am a Program manager on the core virtualization team at Microsoft. I will be talking about what I love and hate about our products here.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:17 AM
Warning on Hyper-V hosts under SCVMM
I have seen this documented in a couple of places now - but I also see a number of people still wondering why this is happening and how to stop it, so I thought I would post it here too. When you first add a Hyper-V host to SCVMM 2008 you may see a warning
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:41 AM
Go check out SCVMM 2008
Okay, I know I am a bit behind the times here - but when SCVMM 2008 was released I was overseas talking about SCVMM 2008. So if you have not already done so, go here: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/virtualmachinemanager/en/us/default.aspx
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:52 PM
Virtualization Launch Event
So while I was off at TechEd New Zealand and TechEd Australia (having a great time!) we had our big virtualization launch event - so now that I am back I thought I had better (belatedly) post the important information: Microsoft Hyper-V Server, a stand
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Monday, August 25, 2008 2:01 PM
TechEd Australia and New Zealand
Next week I am going to be jumping on a plane and going to New Zealand and Australia to talk virtualization. Here is my speaking schedule: New Zealand: Session: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Architecture, Scenarios and Networking Deep Dive Date:
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:30 PM
SCVMM 2008 Beta Update for Hyper-V RC1
An update for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 beta, which adds support for managing Hyper-V RC1, is now available. You can grab it now from http://connect.microsoft.com (if you are not already signed up for the SCVMM 2008 beta - you
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Monday, November 26, 2007 10:56 AM
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Scripting Guide
Now this is the sort of white paper that I like to read: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Scripting Guide 143 pages of useful script samples for SCVMM - which highlights common tasks like: Adding and configuring new Virtual Server hosts. Deploying
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:42 PM
Planning a Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Deployment
A great little white paper on planing a virtual machine manager 2007 deployment has been made available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3e674bc0-bb85-47ae-b73d-f5bc515f1006&DisplayLang=en It is actually quite pithy (for
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:40 AM
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 now RTM
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 has been released to manufacturing. Key features of SCVMM include: Centralized deployment and management of virtual machines Intelligent Placement analysis to determine the best servers for virtualization Quick
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Monday, May 07, 2007 11:29 PM
SCVMM Beta 2 now available for download in a VHD
Good news for those of you too lazy to install SCVMM to try it out - it is now available as a pre-canned virtual hard disk that you can grab from the SCVMM program at http://connect.microsoft.com . Of course, the great thing about this is that you can
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:23 PM
System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 2 available
System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 2 is available for download here . Some of the new features of this release include: New UI (similar to System Center Operations Manager 2007, Service Desk and System Center Essentials) Physical-to-Virtual (P2V)
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