The recent release of SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 includes two new virtualization capabilities: Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX.  To take advantage of these new features, Microsoft also release Service Pack 1 for Service Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 to manage Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX on multiple Hyper-V Servers from a single interface. To understand these capa...

Microsoft’s Hyper-V alone really doesn’t allow for express policy- or role-based administrative control over specific virtual machines on a virtual host (or hosts). Even with Windows 2008 Hyper-V alone, such control wasn’t possible. In effect, if the administrator of a specific virtual machine was not an administrator of that machine’s virtual host, he/she couldn’t, for example, power up an a...

Believe it or not, virtualization technologies have been in use since the early 1960s. Seriously! In those days of old, the technology was sparingly utilized for large mainframes, primarily to allow those expensive, underutilized machines to multitask, thus providing a better return on investment. Fast forward to the present, where the continual inverse relationship between cost/size and perf...