The following are best practices in designing and planning your VMM 2008 R2 rollout: Organizations using Hyper-V should use VMM 2008 R2 and not VMM 2007. VMM 2008 R2 can only be installed on Windows ...

The following are best practices in managing your VMM 2008 R2 environment: Use VMM’s P2V function to convert physical computers to virtual machines. Use VMM’s V2V function to convert virtual machines ...

Establishing host groups and consistent naming conventions in System Center Virtual Machine Manager is essential for managing large Hyper-V environments efficiently and at scale. Microsoft's System ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft released to manufacturing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. The final code will be shipped on Nov. 1. The company bills the software as one-stop organization, allowing ...

Also I doubt that you'd be able to use copy-n-paste via virt-manager. You'd have to use a real client software to access the virtual desktop. And besides the proper client software for accessing the ...

Hyper-V is a technology that enables virtualized computer systems to run on top of a physical host. These virtualized systems can be used and managed just as if they were physical computer systems, ...

Late to the virtualization game, Microsoft has been running several lengths behind the competition in this space for years. However, the new features and strong performance present in Windows Server ...

It's hardly a secret that Windows Admin Center has become Microsoft's preferred interface for Windows Server. But just how capable is this new management tool? Can it replace Hyper-V Manager, or is it ...

(Editor’s note: This story initially misidentified the employer of James Bothe, a systems administrator at RackForce Networks Inc. The company’s name has now been corrected. Also, the cost of Virtual ...

You can now close Hyper-V Manager. Rename a Hyper-V virtual machine using PowerShell For those who wish to rename a Hyper-V virtual machine via the command line or through scripts, you can use ...

The Redmond, Wash.-based vendor used its Microsoft Management Summit 2008, held this week in Las Vegas, to unveil a public beta for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, as ...