Virtualization Products

Microsoft's Virtualization products

• Microsoft's Virtual PC home page
   

• Microsoft's Virtual Server homepage

  • Using the VMRC client to access virtual machines
     

• Microsoft Application virtualization (general page)

• Microsoft Application virtualization a.k.a. "App-V" version 4.5 RTM
  (formerly SoftGrid)

Hyper-V resources listed separately on this page.

• VirtualBox

  • Multi-platform

  • Supports various CPUs

  • Home or Enterprise usage

  • Backed by Oracle

• VMWare (several products)

Virtualization Resources

.vmc Settings file mappings diagram

Free Virtualization Tools (Windows IT Pro Magazine  article by Michael Otey, Instant Doc#98015) For example,...

• ISO Recorder

• Ultimate P2V

• VHD Resizer (very nifty, from VMToolkit)
  (And here's a reference on the resizing process from "Pieter's Knowledge Base".)

• Microsoft browser-based VirtualPC newsgroup

• The "Virtual PC Guy's weblog" (Ben Armstrong, from Microsoft)

Virtual Server on Windows Vista

(Thanks, TechNet blogger Matt McSpirit)

Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows 7 (not officially supported) (Thanks, Thomas Lee MCT)

Virtualization on the Cheap (Windows IT Pro, InstantDoc #101561)

Using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to Create and Configure a Two-Node Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Cluster

(A Microsoft resource)

Setting up a SQL cluster under MS VS2005 R2, Part1

(from SQLServerCentral) [Good screenshots]

HOWTO: Use Virtual PC's Differencing Disks to your Advantage

Grabbing Screenshots Using the Microsoft Virtual Machine Remote Control Client (VMRC)

Hyper-V links [Code name, "Viridian"]

Microsoft's Hyper-V homepage

Hyper-V Getting Started Guide

Microsoft's Hyper-V Virtualization FAQ

Here's where you will obtain Hyper-V Server

After you install Hyper-V Server, log on as "Administrator" with a NULL password.

Hyper-V Server has no GUI Admin tool.

Keith Comb's "Ten Minute Hyper-V Tour" blog post

Quite the gnarly URL.

Hyper-V Architectural poster

From Microsoft downloads.

Virtualizing Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2003 with Hyper-V

Windows IT Pro InstantDoc #101294, by Brien Posey.

Hyper-V videos

From Microsoft TechNet. Quite the library.

iSCSI & NAS Resources

Using iSCSI with Virtual Server 2005 R2

A Microsoft reference.

Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Step-by-Step Guide

Microsoft iSCSI Boot Step-by-Step Guide

Step-by-step: Using the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target with Hyper-V (Standalone, Full, VHD)

Six Uses for the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target

Step-by-step instructions for deploying an iSCSI SAN

From TechTarget.com.

How to Setup iSCSI Drive Using FreeNAS