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Written by David Davis, VCP, the intention of this blog is to share with readers the most relevant and important information, news, tips and tweaks for all aspects of Virtualization, focusing on Microsoft Hyper-V. VMware, and Citrix. We will discuss topics such as high availability, migration, performance, recovery, product add-ons, and more. We will also cover practical information to help with administration and management of your virtualization infrastructure.

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Welcome to the Blog of Jason Conger. Here, we will focus on Server Based Computing environments including Microsoft Windows Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server, Application and Server virtualization, Application streaming and delivery technologies such as Microsoft Softricity, and many other server-centric topics. Also, I will point out tools and tips to help you with your Terminal Services environments.

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Inner Workings of VMware PC-over-IP: Date - Jan 31st, 2010; Author - Jason Conger; VMware View 4 includes PC-over-IP functionality. PC-over-IP is a display protocol licensed from Teradici. There are 2 types of PC-over-IP - hardware and software. VMware View 4 includes the software version. Some details of the inner workings of the software version of PC-over-IP are explained in a recent article by Eric Siebert. VMware's software implementation of PCoIP uses Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) over port 50002. more...
Performance comparisons of FC, iSCSI, and NFS for VMware vSphere: Date - Jan 31st, 2010; Author - Jason Conger; Which protocol produces the best performance for vSphere? That is a question NetApp recently published a whitepaper about. The paper compares the performance of FC, iSCSI, and NFS connected storage along with the gains made in protocol optimization with vSphere as compared to VI3. Some interesting information from the report states "...there is very little difference between the performance results of any storage protocol when running VMware on NetApp. more...
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 Integrates Virtualization Capabilities: Date - Jan 31st, 2010; Author - Jason Conger; Microsoft is enabling virtualization functionality in System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010. The release candidate of SCE will include System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) for up to 50 servers and 500 clients. Alessandro Perilli explains a little more in a recent article at virtualization.info. more...
Managing your Hyper-V server remotely: Date - Jan 31st, 2010; Author - David Davis; Want to manage a Hyper-V server remotely? Perhaps you want to manage your Hyper-V servers from your desktop PC... To do this, you need to install Microsoft's Hyper-V remote MMC. You can find all the instructions to download this MMC and get it installed at: TechNet - Install and Configure Hyper-V Tools for Remote Administrators. more...
VMware publishes vShpere 4.0 Hardening Guide: Date - Jan 31st, 2010; Author - Jason Conger; VMware has released public drafts of the vSphere 4.0 Security Hardening Guides. This set of documents provides guidance on how to securely deploy vSphere 4.0 in a production environment. more...
Microsoft to modify VECD licensing in 2010: Date - Jan 30th, 2010; Author - Jason Conger; If you want to use a Microsoft Windows Desktop OS in your VDI environment, you have to have a special type of licensing called Virtual Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD) licensing. Currently, VECD is only available via SA and is priced per device. more...
Best Practices for Virtualizing Terminal Servers: Date - Jan 30th, 2010; Author - Jason Conger; Joren van de Kamp recently posted an article on BrianMadden.com about virtualizing Terminal Server workloads. This article is actually an excerpt from Project VRC. The Terminal Server workload is quite a bit different than other workloads and special consideration needs to be taken when virtualizing Terminal Services. more...
Free Tool: VKernel VM Stats: Date - Jan 30th, 2010; Author - Jason Conger; VKernel recently released a free tool called VM Status. more...
Free Tool: Hyper-V Manager: Date - Jan 30th, 2010; Author - Jason Conger; Jerry Orman wrote a cool free tool to manage Hyper-V VMs from the system tray of a Windows 2008 Server. This tool allows you to start, stop, save state, and pause VMs without having to keep Hyper-V manager up and going. The tool uses WMI to interface with the VMs. Jerry also provides the source code if you want to explore how to use WMI to work with Hyper-V VMs. Continue at source... Technorati : Free Tools, Hyper-V Del.icio.us : Free Tools, Hyper-V . more...
Microsoft Hyper-V Myths: Date - Jan 30th, 2010; Author - Jason Conger; Microsoft got in the hypervisor game with the release of Windows Server 2008. Since then, there have been some misunderstandings/myths about Hyper-V. more...