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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 more information on the subject, here is my take...

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 piloting.  My theory isn’t that the benefits...

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 solutions, I came across Pano Logic which is based...

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 there shouldn’t be a surprise that they presented...

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 ever had to figure out Microsoft licensing for any...

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. Not just for servers using Microsoft Hyper-V, but...

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...

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 on my laziness of not going down the VHDMount method...

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 (x86), the default size for a new virtual drive is...