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By Michael Pietroforte | 3 Comments | Permalink | Trackback | Previous | NextMicrosoft has a new site dedicated to virtualization. It is mostly a marketing site, but they also have some valuable information. I found two or three new interesting blogs in the Resources section and there are also some technical white papers.
I am usually not so much into marketing texts, however this slogan could be useful if you ever try to get money from your boss for virtualization technology:
Welcome to the world of virtualization - where all of this is reality, and virtually anything is possible.
You can consider “all” as a variable that can be replaced with anything that comes to your mind in a real or virtual meeting with your boss. In the solutions section, you’ll find all Microsoft virtualization products: Softgrid, Virtual Server, Windows Storage Server / Data Protection Manager (?), Network Virtualization, Virtual PC, and Terminal Services (?).
I don’t understand why backup software like Data Protection Manager should be considered as a virtualization solution. And Terminal Services? If any system that allows multiple concurrent logons is a virtualization solution then our software world is much more virtualized than I thought.
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I believe they include Data Protection Manager with their virtualization solution because it allows hot backups of the running VMs. It helps them become the one stop shop for all of your virtualization needs.
You have a point there. I want to try this DPM feature already for quite some time. Good that you reminded me.
We virtualize our Terminal Services server so people from a particular department can run an application centrally and allow us to use the hardware to host other servers as well. I rather not give administrative access to the physical server to decentralized administrators, just giving them administrative access within their VM. I also am not going to dedicate an entire hardware server to sit in a room just so 20 people can run a single application remotely from thin clients.