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• Hosted Virtual Machines with XenApp

  Today on one of Citrix’s Blogs, they announced a new upcoming technology called “ Hosted Virtual Machines ” (HVM).  As if the Virtualization Soup of technology wasn’t big enough already, but this does solve an interesting problem.  Without much... Posted Jul 30 2009, 07:56 PM by agramont with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Hosting, Virtualization, Hyper-V, MED-V, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, MDOP, Citrix XenApp

• How Windows 7 will boost the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Market

  As it stands today, there is a large and growing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) market with vendors spread throughout the software and hardware spectrum.  Unfortunately, many enterprises have either not done or heard of VDI or their in perpetual... Posted Jul 23 2009, 06:35 PM by agramont with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Virtualization, Hyper-V, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, VDI

• My Call with Pano Logic

  I had a great call the other day with the CTO of Pano Logic, Aly Orady.  As some of you know, I’ve been doing a fair amount of researching and lab work with various Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technologies.  In looking around for VDI... Posted Jul 21 2009, 08:02 PM by agramont with | with no comments Filed under: Virtualization, VMware, Pano Logic

• My Notes: VMware vSphere Roadshow

  Today I attended the vSphere Roadshow in Tyson's Corner, Virginia.  The event was delivered by VMware and EMC and was a high-level introduction to the VMware vSphere platform.  For a slight moment, I forgot that EMC owns VMware.  So... Posted Jul 21 2009, 03:55 PM by agramont with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Virtualization, VMware

• Microsoft VDI Suites Licensing

  I just read the announcement that Microsoft put out about their new licensing model for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/07/13/Microsoft_1920_s-new-VDI-licensing_3A00_-VDI-Suites.aspx If you’ve... Posted Jul 14 2009, 07:29 PM by agramont with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Virtualization, Desktop Deployments, MDOP, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Remote Desktop

• Part 1: Building a VDI Lab with Windows Server 2008 R2 & Windows 7

  Disclaimer: While there are many products and technologies for VDI, including VMWare and Citrix, I’ll stay focused on using all Microsoft products…for now. For the past few years I’ve been talking to many customers about the benefits of Virtualization... Posted Jun 18 2009, 07:00 PM by agramont with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Virtualization, Hyper-V, Windows 7, App-v, Windows Storage Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

• Windows Server Virtualization Video

  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... Posted Mar 03 2007, 06:22 PM by agramont with | with no comments Filed under: Video, Virtualization, Windows Server Longhorn

• Copy/Increase a VHD using VHDMount

  So after my first post on the subject of "expanding a VHD" by actually copying the contents of a VHD image using WAIK ( Copy a Microsoft Virtual Machine VHD/Increase VHD size using Windows Automated Installation Kit ), I got some good feedback... Posted Jan 04 2007, 04:00 AM by agramont with | with 25 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Virtualization

• Copy a Microsoft Virtual Machine VHD/Increase VHD size using Windows Automated Installation Kit

  I have a standard set of Virtual Machines images that I do much of my development with. For the most part, I created the virtual machines and their associated virtual drives using the default settings. As I'm using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2... Posted Jan 03 2007, 04:04 AM by agramont with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Automated Installation Kit, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Virtualization