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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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Microsoft changes the game for VDI: Date - Mar 19th, 2010; Author - Jason Conger; Microsoft made several key announcements in conjunction with Citrix surrounding VDI and opening the door for more people. Some of the announcements included: New VDI promotions available for qualified customers to choose from today. more...
Microsoft Desktop Virtualization Hour: Date - Mar 17th, 2010; Author - Jason Conger; Looking at Desktop Virtualization including VDI? Thinking about Windows 7 migration; Want savings, but wondering about ROI? Microsoft is leading a "Desktop Virtualization Hour" on March 18 at 9:00 AM PST. Be sure to check it out as I'm sure some cool new announcements will be made concerning Microsoft's VDI suite of products. Continue at source... Technorati : Microsoft, VDI Del.icio.us : Microsoft, VDI . more...
VIDEO: This Week in Virtualization with David Davis: Date - Feb 28th, 2010; Author - David Davis; This week, I was the guest on a new weekly virtualization podcast called This Week in Virtualization. In this episode, we talked about the next version of vSphere and its features - to be released at an unspecified date. You can watch on a webpage or you can subscribe to an iTunes RSS feed and watch in iTunes or on your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV. Click on the video below to bring up the webpage to watch: . more...
Virtualization Security Podcast: Date - Feb 28th, 2010; Author - David Davis; Interested in Virtualization? Interested in Security? Then you need to listen to (and participate in) the virtualization security podcast. You can start right now by listening to archived podcasts (there was a great one this week) and put the next one on your calendar to make sure that you are able to watch it live. The TalkShoe URL is at: Virtualization Security Podcast. more...
Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V design diagram with Palo adapter: Date - Feb 28th, 2010; Author - David Davis; Brad Hedlund over at Internetwork Expert.org made a really amazing post about the Cisco UCS, Nexus 1000V, and the Palo Adaptor. With UCS, there are a couple of network adapters designed just for virtualization. There is one for the blade UCS and one for the rack-mount UCS. more...
Listen to the VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast!: Date - Feb 28th, 2010; Author - David Davis; I was a guest on the VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast this week where I covered my new vSphere Pro Series Volume 1 video. After that quick promo, VMware's ESXi product management discussed the upcoming release of ESXi and what it will look like in the future. It was really amazing info! You can listen to it on the web, or subscribe to it in iTunes. Here's a graphic from the podcast: List to the VMware Communities Roundtable here. more...
Quick and Dirty PowerShell to create a large number of test VMs with sequential names: Date - Feb 27th, 2010; Author - David Davis; I read a recent post on how to use PowerShell to create a large number of test virtual machines with sequential names. I can see this being so useful in testing and it's really amazing what you can do with PowerShell! Check out the full post at: Quick and Dirty PowerShell to create a large number of test VMs with sequential names. more...
3 Easy Ways Connecting to Your VM in Private Cloud: Date - Feb 26th, 2010; Author - David Davis; I enjoyed reading a recent post by DoubleCloud where they cover 3 Easy Ways Connecting to Your VM in Private Cloud. The 3 ways they discuss are: Using VMware Remote Console which is a standalone application Using browser plug-in to either IE or Firefox Using Remote Desktop, VNC or SSH Read the full article to find out how to do each of these three at: 3 Easy Ways Connecting to Your VM in Private Cloud . more...
VMware to Acquire Certain IT Management Products and Software Expertise From EMC Corporation: Date - Feb 25th, 2010; Author - David Davis; This week, VMware announced an acquisition of certain pieces of EMC management software to expand the VMware vCenter Management Product Family. By doing this, they "hope to address critical management needs as customers advance on journey to cloud computing." Basically, the pieces that they are purchasing are pieces of EMC's Ionix. more...
How to redirect ESXi system logs to a central syslog server: Date - Feb 22nd, 2010; Author - David Davis; In this VMware KB article # 1007329, they cover how to redirect ESXi system logs to a central syslog server. This is the recommended procedure for ESXi and a great idea. Here is what the basic steps are: But I encourage you to read the full article at: How to redirect ESXi system logs to a central syslog server. more...