Entries tagged with virtualization - Channel 9

geekSpeak recording - Virtualization for Developers with Step

Brianjo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:00:00 GMT

In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Stephen Rose discusses why developers should look at using virtual environments for developing and the benefits of doing so. He addresses everything from the creation of a complete development environment's domain in a box to how to move these environments back and forth from virtual to physical and back again.

Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Mithun Dhar and Danilo Diaz.

Original Broadcast Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008

To ask a question in advance of a live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/geekSpeak.

Citrix - Understanding Machine Virtualization

Charles — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:07:00 GMT

Citrix is all about virtualization. They have a suite of tools that enable IT departments to virtualize almost everything. Citrix is a Microsoft Certified Partner and, to some extent, a competitor. How does this Partner Competitor relationship work? Microsoft is very interested in virtualization technologies and with the advent of our hypervisor technology, HyperV, and application virtualization software, SoftGrid, you can bet that we'll compete hard with other virtualization vendors.

Here, we meet Simon Crosby, formerly CTO of XenSource now working as the CTO of Citrix Systems (NSDQ: CTXS)' virtualization and management division(Citrix purchased XenSource). We discuss the relationship between Microsoft and Citrix, the complexities of building scalable, sercure, reliable and performant virtualization technologies and the future of virtualization. It's a very interesting conversation and Simon is quite the conversationalist. Enjoy.

John Sheehan: Inside Application Virtualization

Charles — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:41:00 GMT

Application virtualization is different than machine virtualization which virtualizes the machine on which an operating system (and applications) are installed. Machine virtualization provides an abstraction layer between the hardware and the OS that's running on top of it. It also allows managing and simultaneously operating multiple environments on a single machine.

Application virtualization takes this concept and applies it to programs. The abstraction layer created by application virtualization lies between the operating system and the applications that run within it, allowing applications to be delivered dynamically as services that can be added or removed without installation.

Microsoft purchased a company named Softricity a while ago and the application virtualization product SoftGrid was forged from the algorithms created by both Softricity and Microsoft engineers.

Marketing says:

"Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization provides the most extensive virtualization on the market. In addition to virtualizing application related Windows Services, it virtualizes per user, per application instance, key application components including the Registry, file system, DLLs, COM/IPC, .INI files, fonts and more.

SoftGrid's application virtualization can work in concert with other virtualization technologies – including machine virtualization – as part of a comprehensive services-oriented architecture."

Here, John Sheehan, the primary architect of SoftGrid (formerly the chief architect of Softricity) digs into the details of how application virtualization (as implemented in SoftGrid) works. It's an incredibly interesting technology with a very promising future. There are many possibilities for using application virtualization to solve problems affecting not only the enterprise, but standard users and developers as well. Just use your imagination. This is a deep dive and John told me he'd like to go even deeper next time he's in Redmond. For now, this conversation should suffice as a technical introduction to the world of application virtualization and how Microsoft is innovating in this space.

Enjoy!

TechNet Radio: How Microsoft IT Approached the Deployment of Microsoft Application Virtualization v4.5

erickingfrog — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:33:17 GMT

Learn how Microsoft IT implemented Microsoft Application Virtualization version 4.5, formerly known as SoftGrid Application Virtualization. Hear the benefits of application virtualization within our environment, as well as some of the technical limitations of the product, from a software deployment perspective.

Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Chris Avis – IT Pro Evangelist

Michael Gallegos - Michael Gallegos has served as the internal technical lead for Application Virtualization with Microsoft since he joined the company in November of 2006. Prior to coming to Microsoft, Michael spent 11 years as a Technical Architect at the business consulting/outsourcing firm, Accenture responsible for the design, implementation, and operations of software deployment and patch management services.

TechNet Radio: Heroes Happen Here Launch in Seattle

erickingfrog — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:22:22 GMT

On this episode of TechNet Radio, We come to you from the April 1^st Heroes Happen Here Launch event in Seattle, WA.

Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer
Chris Avis – IT Pro Evangelist
Michael Cooper – TSP Networking

TechNet Radio: Managing a Virtualized Environment today and in the future

erickingfrog — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:50:53 GMT

The challenges in managing virtualized environments span beyond administration of applications in both the physical and virtual layers. In this session we will review how the future datacenter can be managed with these complex scenarios. We will also cover the features and benefits of using Windows Server Virtualization and System Center working together and look at competitive differentiators for the current virtualization offerings.

Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Keith Combs – IT Pro Evangelist

Shai Ofek - Shai Ofek is a Lead Technical Product Manager in Microsoft’s Windows Server Division, focused on Microsoft virtualization solutions and server consolidation projects. His experience in Microsoft includes consulting services, where he assisted organizations, large and medium, to deploy management solutions, develop and execute server consolidations projects, and other infrastructure related services. His involvement in projects covered a variety of industries including financial services, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, academia, and small businesses.

Mark Russinovich: On Working at Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 Kernel, MinWin vs ServerCore, HyperV,

Charles — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:01:00 GMT

I recently sat down with Technical Fellow and SysInternals founder Mark Russinovich to dig a bit into what's new in the Windows Server 2008 kernel. Of course, we talk about many things including HyperV, application virtualization, kernel architecture (not everybody defines an OS kernel in the same way - tune in to understand why this is the case. Mark has his own definition that may not be the same as yours....).

Recently, the MinWin project was in the press after a university video lecture by a Microsoft Windows architect was released on the net. Most people confuse MinWin with Windows Server 2008's ServerCore technology - the confusion stems from the incorrect assumption that ServerCore is a byproduct of the MinWin work. In fact, they are not at all related. Mark explains the differences and hopefully this will end the confusion...

Of course, Mark spends time on the whiteboard in this interview, drawing out the kernel architecture, explaining HyperV, touching on application virtualization (running client applications without having to install them locally - tune in to understand what I mean...).

Channel 9 is and has always been about showcasing the humans behind our technologies in addition to drilling into how we make our products, and of course why we do what we do (in a technical sense). Mark is a huge addition to the Windows family and his technical leadership is already being felt throughout buildings 26 and 43. Mark tells me about how life is going inside the Mothership, what a Techincal Fellow is (it's the highest level of engineering career stage at Microsoft), individual contribution versus management, and more.

As always, it's an honor and pleasure to spend time talking with Mark. He's one of our brightest technical minds and Windows architecture is in very good hands.

Enjoy.

TechNet Radio: Get Ready for Microsoft Virtualization Technologies with the Assessment and Planning

erickingfrog — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:39:36 GMT

Are you ready to evaluate and deploy Microsoft Virtualization Technologies such as Windows Server Virtualization (Viridian), Windows Server Terminal Services and SoftGrid? Start your planning cycle right with Microsoft's Assessment and Planning Solution. This automation tool provides a quick way to assess the right technologies for your virtualization and server consolidation needs through network inventory of servers, workloads, applications, clients and generation of assessment reports and proposals. Listen in as Keith Combs, IT Evangelist from Microsoft, interviews Baldwin Ng, Senior Product Manager, from the Windows Server Marketing/Solution Accelerators Team about the features and availability of the Assessment and Planning Solution

Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Keith Combs – IT Pro Evangelist

Baldwin Ng - Sr. Product Manager, Windows Server Marketing, Solution Accelerators Team

JAOO 2007: Erik Meijer and Dave Thomas - Objects, Functions, Virtual Machines, IDEs and Other Fun St

Charles — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:05:38 GMT

I recently got the chance to attend JAOO in Aarhus, Denmark. Besids learning a great amount about various approaches to solving hard problems that we all face as programmers (regardless of the stack we spend most of our time developing on), I got to meet so many interesting people from all walks of programmer life. What a great conference! For one thing, JAOO not about specifc products. It's not about one company's view of the world. It's not about one class of technologies or developer. It's not just about Java and LAMP or .NET and Windows.

Dave Thomas is well known for his work in object oriented programming language design, dynamic language development (SmallTalk), virtual machines and in the development of the Eclipse IDE.

I was lucky enough to grab Dave and Channel 9 celebrity, co-creator of LINQ and programming language scientist Erik Meijer to about objects, OO, functional programming, the future of programming languages in the age of parallelism and concurrency (multi/many-core hardware "revolution"). We also talk about virtual machines in the context of language runtimes. Dave provides some feedback on Microsoft's approach to "managed" runtimes (aka CLR). He has an "interesting" perspectives in this area, though I don't agree with him fully :)

This is a fantastic conversation with two of the computing industry's best and brightest. It was a real honor to meet Dave Thomas. He's incredibly nice and really humble given his myriad of technical accomplishments.

Enjoy!

TechNet Radio: Get Ready for Windows Server Virtualization!

erickingfrog — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:24:04 GMT

Hear from Microsoft Consulting Architect, Robert Larson, on the benefits of server virtualization using Windows Server virtualization technologies. Learn also how upcoming Microsoft Virtualization Solution Accelerators, a combination of automated software tools and guidance can help customers and IT consultants quickly assess their existing infrastructure and workloads and better determine which virtualization technologies to deploy and which servers and workloads to virtualize.

Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Keith Combs – IT Pro Evangelist

Robert Larson - Architect

Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0

Rory — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:13:19 GMT

Alex Hinrichs runs the Windows Server ship room (you’ve met him before, too). Today, we announce the release of Windows Server 2008 RC0. RC0? What does that mean, exactly? Well, Alex sure knows… There are many new innovations in Windows Server 2008 not the least of which is our new built-in virtualization system, Hypervisor. Jeff explains… Then there’s server core, a stripped down UI-less version of the OS for those who prefer to run only the bare minimum subset of features to serve whatever their serving… Tune in to find out more about our next server OS and meet some of the folks that spend all of their time helping to make it our best ever. If you listen carefully, you’ll hear some very interesting news… Enjoy.

TechNet Radio: Managing Virtualization with Virtual Machine Manager 2007

erickingfrog — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:36:46 GMT

This episode will describe how the System Center products are used to manage the virtualized datacenter. We will cover the features and benefits of using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 with Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 environment. The Microsoft Virtualization Management strategy will be covered, along with various usage scenarios for VMM and SCOM.

Eric Ostrowski – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Chris Avis – IT Pro Evangelist

Edwin Yuen – Edwin Yuen is the technical product manager in the Windows Enterprise Management division for System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Edwin came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity. Prior to joining Microsoft, Edwin was one of the Services Engagement Managers of Softricity for six years, leading most of the initial Softricity implementations. Edwin has 13 years of technical consulting experience in both the commercial and federal space, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

TechNet Radio: Windows Branch Office Scenarios

erickingfrog — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:13:14 GMT

Matt Hester talks with Patrick Hevesi about Branch Office. They discuss the five main scenarios all branch offices face, and how Microsoft’s Branch Office offerings address these challenges. Windows Server Virtualizaion, Componentization and Security are all discussed.

Eric Ostrowski – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer
Matt Hester – IT Pro Evangelist
Patrick Hevesi – Enterprise Technology Strategist

TechNet Radio: Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance

erickingfrog — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:15:05 GMT

On today’s TechNet Radio, we discuss Using Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) to make Windows enterprise desktops easier to control and manage, and make IT more responsive to end-user and overall business needs.

We also talk with Edwin Yuen about System Center Virtual Machine Manager. System Center Virtual Machine Manager provides centralized administration of virtual machine infrastructure and enables increased physical server utilization and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator and authorized end users.

Eric Ostrowski – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Blain Barton – Senior IT Pro Evangelist

Kevin Remde – IT Pro Evangelist

Jameel Khalfan – Jameel Khalfan is a Technical Product Manager in Windows Client. He is responsible for System Center Desktop Error Monitoring, which is part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance, as well as various Software Assurance benefits. Mr. Khalfan joined Microsoft after graduating from MIT with degrees in Engineering and Management.

Edwin Yuen – Technical Product Manager for System Center Virtual Machine Manager

TechNet Radio - How Microsoft Does IT: The Future of Server Virtualization

erickingfrog — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:35:13 GMT

Building on the success of leveraging Virtual Server 2005 R2 for Microsoft IT’s Virtual Server Utility, Microsoft looks forward to leveraging Windows Server 2008’s virtualization feature to drive additional value and move virtual machines as the commodity data center platform offering.

Eric Ostrowski – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Kevin Remde – IT Pro Evangelist

Devin Murray – Microsoft IT Group Manager. As a Group Manager for Microsoft, Devin Murray manages a small team focused on Server Lifecycle Management in Microsoft IT data centers including the evaluation, testing, standard certification, selection and eventual retirement of server hardware, operating systems, virtualization standards. Additionally, Devin’s team manages the Virtual Server Utility service offering which “sells” Virtual Machines as a platform offering within Microsoft IT.

TechNet Radio: Review of Server Management in Windows Server 2008

erickingfrog — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:03:58 GMT

Listen in as Andrew Mason, Principle Program Manager for Server Core, Jeffrey Snover, Architect for PowerShell and Eduardo Melo, Program Manager for Server Manager discuss the role of Server Management in Windows Server 2008. Each will discuss briefly some of the new features of Server Core, PowerShell and Server Manager.

We also talk with Jeff Woolsey about the latest updates in Virtualization.

Participants

Eric Ostrowski – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Michael Murphy – IT Pro Evangelist

Jeff Woolsey – Senior Program Manager, Virtualization

Andrew Mason – Principle Program Manager for Server Core

Jeffrey Snover – Architect for PowerShell

Eduardo Melo – Program Manager for Server Manager

TechNet Radio: Community Corner: an interview with Dan Stolts on Windows Server “Longhorn” (Windows

erickingfrog — Tue, 22 May 2007 21:14:22 GMT

On this week’s Community Corner, Dan Stolts talks with John Weston about Windows Server “Longhorn” (now Windows Server 2008). They dive into some of the new features in Windows Server 2008, including Powershell and Virtualization.

Participants

Eric Ostrowski – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

John Weston – IT Pro Evangelist

Dan Stolts – Dan Stolts has had a long involvement in the user group community and is President of BayState Integrated Technology, Inc. which specializes in IT system integration and IT infrastructure outsourced support for the small and medium sized business markets.

TechNet Radio - Community Corner: an interview with MVP Andy Malone on Windows Server "Longhorn

erickingfrog — Tue, 15 May 2007 21:32:41 GMT

New MVP Andy Malone talks with John Weston about Windows Server "Longhorn" (now Windows Server 2008). Andy is a technical trainer as well as the Managing Director of Quality Training Ltd. in Scotland. They discuss the new features in Windows Server "Longhorn" such as built-in virtualization to virtualize multiple operating systems and NAP (Network Access Protection).

Participants

Eric Ostrowski – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

John Weston – IT Pro Evangelist

Andy Malone – Andy Malone (MVP, MCSE, MCT) is the Managing Director of Quality Training Ltd. in Scotland. Andy is a motivated technical trainer, Microsoft speaker, and technology evangelist with over 13 years experience in IT training and consultancy. Andy was also the 2006 winner of the TechEd: IT Forum Speaker Idol contest. Having been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1994, Andy brings a wealth of real-world experience to his courses and teaches to a consistently high standard. His knowledge stems from early editions of Windows NT, Exchange, and the Office platforms to Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn". Andy’s recent speaker engagements include TechNet, the Microsoft New Day Launch (UK) events and keynote sessions at the MCT Summit 2007 (EMEA) in Zurich.

TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Implements System Center Operations Manager 2007

auroraqueen — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:02:53 GMT

As a first step in building an end-to-end solution, Microsoft IT used System Center Operations Manager 2007 to consolidate two of its largest management groups into one group, the Enterprise Monitoring Team (EMT). Michael Murphy talks with Tom McCleery, the Group Manager of the EMT about how Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, the next generation of Microsoft Operations Management and successor to MOM 2005, significantly changes the way that EMT monitors its operations. They discuss how new templates and improved management pack design enables group managers to adjust their monitoring definitions and configurations without having to depend on EMT specialists.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

John Weston – IT Pro Evangelist

Tom McCleery – Tom is the Group Manager of the Enterprise Monitoring Team for Microsoft. He leads a team of engineers responsible for instrumenting Microsoft’s production server environment, corporate network infrastructure, and infrastructure services (i.e. AD, DNS, DHCP). Prior to his role on the Enterprise Monitoring Team, Tom was the Sr. Operations Manager of Microsoft’s Network Operations Center.

TechNet Radio - Windows Server Virtualization: An interview with Jeff Woolsey

auroraqueen — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:34:21 GMT

Having been inspired by the demonstration that Jeff Woolsey performed at WinHec 2006 on Windows Server virtualization, Michael Murphy and Kevin Remde interview him on exciting new features. Among others, a few of the topics that Jeff discusses in this conversation are the benefits of virtualization, multi-processor virtual machines, server consolidation, and providing solutions for business continuity.

Oughtness, Isness and the world of systems management

Charles — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:02:59 GMT

"Oughtness"? "Isness"? What?

We recently caught up with Anders Vinberg, Architect and one of the leaders of Microsoft's Management infrastructure team (technologies like MOM, WU, etc) and wordsmith(he makes up words to describe complex systems). Also present was Architect Raymond McCollum, who works on things like the new event log mechanism in Windows Vista. Systems management is full of really challenging problems and Anders' team has done some incredible work in this area.

Virtualization

Charles — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:07:46 GMT

Ever wonder how virtualization works? Where is it used? What role could virtualization play in the future of Windows, for example? How will it evolve over time?

We recently met with some of the Microsoft Virtualization people to find some answers to these questions and learn a whole lot about virtualization, hypervisor, and the future of this super cool and important technology.

You can get more info on virtualization products and demos here and here.