It may seem a bit odd to discuss power management in the context of Hyper-V. After all, virtual servers run on virtual hardware. Even so, power and cooling costs can account for a big chunk of the IT ...

Some of these assumptions are perfectly valid for most situations, but others -- despite Microsoft's best intentions -- are a bit more puzzling. Microsoft offers three separate tools for interacting ...

As part of Microsoft’s ‘Get Virtual Now’ event going on this week, CA today announced its intent to offer a whole lot of support for Microsoft’s virtualization technology. For instance, CA ARCserve ...

But the big news in Hyper-V management isn’t R2, it’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, which went gold in October ’08. The cool features include better visualization of both physical and ...

The burdens of managing security permissions are rarely seen as exciting, but they're an essential duty to which we systems administrators are sworn to carry out. In this tip, I'll talk about how you ...

One thing that was apparent at this month's TechEd conference in Houston is that apparently everyone is joining the Hyper-V parade. While VMware still offers the dominant virtualization platform, ...

Someone I know is considering setting up Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on a new server they are adding to their network. It will run Windows Server 2008 R2, either on the bare metal or as a guest in Hyper-V.

“As the popularity of Windows Server Hyper-V has increased, we've heard from our customers that support for that environment is a must-have, and we've delivered,” said Julian Waits, Sr., president and ...

Quest's Provision Networks announced that they were offering its Virtual Access Suite for Microsoft Hyper-V-based environments at Microsoft's Management Summit in Las Vegas. Quest Software, Inc.