MVP = Mark’s Very Pleased

Posted on By Mark Wilson

MVPI’ve just heard that my Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award nomination for 2009 was successful and I can now say I’m an MVP for Virtual Machine technology.

Thank you to everyone who reads, links to and comments on this blog as, without your support, I wouldn’t write this stuff and therefore wouldn’t be getting the recognition from Microsoft that I have.

For those of you who skip over the Microsoft-focused content, don’t worry – it doesn’t mean that it will all be Microsoft from now on – I’ll still continue to write about whatever flavour of technology I find interesting at any given time, and I’ll still be trying to remain objective!

Hyper-V Server has RTMed – SCVMM due by the end of the month

Posted on By Mark Wilson

I’ve just heard that Microsoft Hyper-V Server – the free version of Hyper-V with no reliance on Windows has shipped. Hyper-V Server will be available for download later today from the Microsoft website.

For more information about Hyper-V Server, check out the blog post I wrote a few days ago on host virtualisation using Microsoft Virtualization technologies.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 has not been released yet but Microsoft do say that it will be ready by the end of October (they had previously indicated that it would ship within 30 days of the Microsoft Virtualization launch last month).