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Update on the Virtualisation debacle:

At long last Scott Drummonds from VMware has come to his senses and apologised in the VMware blog post:

“I made a bad call.

About a month and a half ago, I anonymously posted a YouTube video depicting a controversial test of Microsoft’s Hyper-V.  The video was a bit hyperbolic in its dramatization of Hyper-V’s reliability.

Unfortunately, my intention to stir the pot with eye-poking banter has put my credibility and by association VMware’s credibility in question among some of you.  For this I apologize.

I’ve removed the video from YouTube.  I’ve also sent a note of apology to Jeff Woosley at Microsoft.

My focus, and clearly VMware’s focus, is to help our 140,000 plus customers get the most from their technology investments.  This is our commitment.  We will absolutely work our best to live up to the high standard you’ve come to expect from us.  And when we mess up, we’ll be the first to address the mistake head on”.

Scott

Good shout VMware, but for the record – Microsoft 1, VMware 0 [:)]

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Update: recognition of this is now available on the Windows Virtualisation Blog here

Till now I have been using AVG Free, (prior to this I tried Sophos 7.6 and this did not play nice at all, Internet Explorer was unable to load and I could not be bothered to create exceptions). However this may all soon change, Reuters just leaked information on “Morro”, this free Anti-Virus product will replace the subscription based “OneCare” solution and appears to be based upon the Microsoft Forefront product. Good news!

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In case it was not already clear Enda over at the TechNet Ireland Blog has just posted an article on OCS virtualisation-friendly roles.

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Hello, this is Bryon Surace.  I’m a senior program manager on the Windows virtualization team at Microsoft. The recent announcement by AMD regarding the 6-core AMD Opteron processor (codenamed ‘Istanbul’) marks another milestone in AMD’s continued mission to create processors designed to provide performance, efficiency, and value.

The newly announced 6-core AMD Opteron processor will provide a total of 24 logical processors (cores) on a 4-socket system and 48 logical processors (cores) on an 8-socket system.  In a non-virtualized IT environment, there aren’t many apps/services that are designed to utilize these large system resources.  However, with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2, it’s a natural fit.   WS08 R2 Hyper-V provides support for these new processors allowing large resources to be used to consolidate potentially hundreds of virtual machines on a single host. 

Hyper-V, as part of Windows Server 2008 R2 (RTM by end of July) will provide support for up 64 Logical processors (see blog announcement here).  As such, Hyper-V combined with AMD’s new 6-core Opteron processors provide a solid virtualization platform on which to consolidate large numbers of virtual workloads.  Combined with WS08 R2 Core Parking technology, cores on the new Opteron processors can be fully utilized during peak times, or can be put into a sleep state (‘parked’) during idle times further reducing power consumption.

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A little bit naughty, but I know this will be of interest to those that can’t wait to get their hands on the new iPhone platform. I would imagine this has been leaked via the iPhone developer contingent as they were all given advance access to these binaries a week ahead of public launch.

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Saw this on my way into work, made me chuckle!