After years of planning and development, Microsoft made the first supported version of its Hyper-V virtualisation software available for download today. Bill Laing, general manager of the Windows Server Division, told The Hypervisor, “The final release to manufacturing (RTM) version of Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 will be available for download from 8pm BST tonight. […]
Entries from June 2008
Microsoft Hyper-V out now
News 26th June
VMware Update Manager
Reviews 20th June
VMware Update Manager v1 comes free with vCenter 2.5 (VC25) and is designed to help IT managers locate and install software patches for ESX Server systems and the Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs) running on them. Update Manager (UM) runs as a plugin for VC25, but it is not installed automatically, so a VMware […]
SQL Server 2008 RC0 launched today
News 10th June
Microsoft launched release candidate zero (RC0) of SQL Server 2008 at its Tech Ed conference in Orlando today. David Hobbs-Mallyon told the Hypervisor,
Real-time replication for Windows clusters
News 10th June
Today real time replication specialist Neverfail began beta testing of ClusterProtector, which provides real-time data replication over a WAN for Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server systems running under Microsoft Cluster Server. Andrew Barnes, Neverfail senior vice president of corporate development, told The Hypervisor that the disaster recovery suite should be ready for production environments by […]