Server Virtualization

Microsoft’s vision of the Cloud OS and what it means to you (and me)

Recently I had the opportunity to be part of a Microsoft Press Briefing where they announced System Center 2012 SP1 was released and how it played a part of their vision of the Cloud OS.  Since that briefing I’ve had a number of conversations and I thought where better than here to discuss that. What […]

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Microsoft’s vision of the Cloud OS and what it means to you (and me)

Recently I had the opportunity to be part of a Microsoft Press Briefing where they announced System Center 2012 SP1 was released and how it played a part of their vision of the Cloud OS.  Since that briefing I’ve had a number of conversations and I thought where better than here to discuss that. What

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Windows Server 2012 and Partnering with Microsoft!

Today at Applied Innovations, we announced that we have officially launched Windows Server 2012 Beta cloud servers on top of a  Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cluster!  This is all really cool because it’s the first time we’ve been able to publicly discuss the amount of time we’ve been working with Microsoft around Windows Server 2012

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Elastic Computing AKA Cloud Computing as provided by Applied Innovations

I broke this post up into a series of posts. The first post (just published) gives an overview of ARR in IIS7 and why it’s cool. This post is going to talk about the first stage of cloud computing we’ve deployed at Applied Innovations and the benefit’s of it such that you could use it

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Migrating your old workstation to your new workstation with virtualization.

Like any die-hard computer geek/junkie, when Vista was first released I moved to a new desktop running Vista. The downside to going to a new desktop is that same old problem “what do I do about my old desktop? I don’t want to (or I can’t) re-install all my programs, documents, etc?”. So for the

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Linux Additions for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 updated

A new version of the Linux Additions for Virtual Server is now available from the Microsoft Download Center via the following webpage: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/virtualserver/downloads/linuxguestsupport.mspx These new Additions add support for some updated distributions of Linux and are designed to work with Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 which is available at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver Currently Qualified Linux Guest Operating

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Performance Tips for Your Windows VPS running Virtuozzo

Here’s Jess’s top 10 tips and tricks to help optimize your Windows VPS server running on Virtuozzo.  Disable Indexing Service.  Unless you’re using the FrontPage search bot you generally don’t need indexing service running and you should disable it. Defrag your drives.  Disk I/O is king, especially in a VPS and you should be regularly defragging your

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Read that EULA & PUR! That’s what I learned today!

I recently posted a blog entry about my ‘informal’ apples to oranges comparison of the different virtualization platforms available for windows. Apparently I didn’t spell it out clear enough that things were not on a level playing field.  Well, guys I did it. I went and pissed off Bob. Sorry Bob. But Bob taught me

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Read that EULA & PUR! That’s what I learned today!

I recently posted a blog entry about my ‘informal’ apples to oranges comparison of the different virtualization platforms available for windows. Apparently I didn’t spell it out clear enough that things were not on a level playing field.  Well, guys I did it. I went and pissed off Bob. Sorry Bob. But Bob taught me

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Which VPS platform is the fastest? Benchmarking Virtuozzo, VMWare and Microsoft Virtual Server on Windows.

I’ve pulled the article until I have time to properly benchmark all three systems on identical hardware, hopefully after the holidays.  Although I used different hardware, I firmly believe my numbers provided a reasonable estimate of what performance you would see using identical hardware.   I’d had verbal feedback from others that in fact they saw

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