Clustered Hyper-V Between Two Mid-Range Laptops Using iSCSI and Consumer-Grade 100MB/sec Networking… Some Remarkable Results… I'm in the process this week of authoring my monthly "Geek of all Trades" column for TechNet Magazine. For this month, I'm attempting to put together the absolute simplest configuration possible using the poorest-possible hardware for constructing a Hyper-V cluster. My goal with this experiment is to explain how easy

SCVMM 2008 Just Freaking Rocks It...just...works... That's all I can say about today's combination of Hyper-V and the recently-released SCVMM 2008. Â After trying to love the new VMware Server 2.0 and its deplorable web-based interface, slower response (than v1), and regular crashes, I begrudgingly made the decison to move all my workloads to Hyper-V.

Microsoft Releases SCVMM 2008. Get Your Free Training! With an on-time release (actually, slightly early from some reports I've heard), Microsoft announced today the official RTM of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Â This update to its System Center virtualization management solution includes support for managing Hyper-V servers. Â More information and your evalualtion copy can be

Greg Talks with Microsoft about Virtualization Last week I delivered my ever-popular session Designing a Virtualization Architecture for the Rocky Mountain Windows Technology User Group's impressively-attended virtualization conference. Â If you're in the Denver area, check out the RMWTUGÂ as a great resource for IT Pros who need a little community. Immediately after the conference, Harold

BREAKING: Hyper-V Releases Today! (Cross-posted from the Realtime Windows Server Community) Microsoft has given me the OK to announce that Hyper-V officially releases today! It'll take a while for Microsoft to get the bits up on the web site, but for now you can grab all the information you need to prepare at this