Colm Torris is keeping busy. He’s just announced an event on Microsoft virtualisation technologies that will be held on January 18th in the Guiness Storehouse. Topics being covered include:
- How Virtualisation will change IT
- Microsoft Virtual Server Technology: capabilities, deployment, challenges
- How Virtualisation (Hypervisor) fits into Windows Server Codename Longhorn
- Managing a mixed/virtual infrastructure: System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
- Tools and techniques to deploy, monitor, maintain and back up virtual and physical machines
- IT Lifecycle: Provisioning, Back-up, Migration, Monitoring
- Changes introduced with Windows Virtualisation
- Virtual Server Architecture
- Microsoft SoftGrid – Application virtualisation and streaming.
- High Availability capabilities in Virtual Server
- Benefits of AMD-V and Intel VT hardware virtualisation
- Real life examples on deploying and managing virtual environments
- Licensing implications of adding/removing virtual machines
I’m a huge fan of selectively using virtualisation technology to consolidate hardware, facilitating DR and operational recovery. MS have some good products that have them neck and neck with VMware in the PC and mid-level market. "Longhorn" will definitely put them into direct competition with VMware ESX Server. I highly recommend that you check this free event out.