Corporate customers and software developers were unable to access Microsoft’s MSDN benefits portal for much of today. The portal provides MSDN subscribers with access to downloads of Microsoft products and license keys. Although Microsoft has not issued a statement about the problem, the problem came to light in The Hypervisor Lab when one of our [...]

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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. [...]

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Judging by some of the virtual machine (VM) management tools we evaluated recently, server backup software could soon be replaced by server replication tools. The trouble with backups is they spend most of their life archived on some tape or disk storage system. Even if you test the tape as soon as you’ve made it, [...]

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Virtualisation specialist VMware announced three major new products at its VMworld conference in San Francisco earlier this week. Top of the list is a new venture with server hardware vendors such as Dell, IBM and HP, which will see the hardware vendors marketing servers that come with the VMware ESX Server hypervisor supplied in Flash [...]

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Virtualisation tool vendor Vizioncore today released the latest version of its virtual server replication suite. The suite enables system administrators to maintain replicas of virtual machines on secondary servers so the replicas are instantly ready to run in case of a problem with the original virtual machine. New features in this upgrade include support for [...]

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