There is some great innovation going on in Windows Server code-named Longhorn for Virtualization. There is now a video on MSN Soapbox that shows off some of the cool new features.
In this demo you will see:
- Windows Server Virtualization running on a Server Core installation managed remotely from another Windows Server Longhorn box
- 64-bit and 32-bit virtual machines running concurrently
- SUSE Linux 10 running in a virtual machine
- An 8-core virtual machine
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- System Center Operations Manager
- Monitoring the VMs on the Server Core box
- Fire off a PowerShell script to hot-add another NIC to a SQL VHD Image
[SoapBox: 5119240c-6579-4827-8338-7f5539930402]
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Conrad Agramont is a Partner Technology Specialist (PTS) focused on the Microsoft Server product lines in the Small and Mid-Market Solutions and Partners (SMSP) area for the Mid-Atlantic district. Conrad was previously the Senior Architect for a Microsoft Gold Partner where he was responsible for product planning, software architecture, and technical evangelism focusing on Service Providers around the world. Agramont was previously a Program Manager at Microsoft driving hosting scenarios and architecting components for the Microsoft Provisioning System, Service Provisioning component in Microsoft Solutions for Hosted Messaging & Collaboration, Hosted Exchange 2003, and Windows based Hosting 3.0. Conrad has over 8 years of experience in the Microsoft automation and hosting space, speaking at public events, and publishing articles in magazines. Conrad Agramont is also an active blogger focusing on many Microsoft Hosting related topics. His blog can be found at http://agramont.net/