{"id":1223,"date":"2008-09-24T21:58:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T21:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/microsoft-virtualization-part-1-introduction.htm"},"modified":"2008-09-24T22:36:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T22:36:33","slug":"microsoft-virtualization-part-1-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/microsoft-virtualization-part-1-introduction.htm","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Virtualization: part 1 (introduction)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting at Microsoft&#8217;s London offices waiting for this evening&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvug.co.uk\/\"> Microsoft Virtualization User Group (MVUG)<\/a> event to start reminded me that I still haven&#8217;t written up my notes on the various technologies that make up Microsoft&#8217;s virtualisation portfolio. It&#8217;s been three months since I spent a couple of days in Reading learning about this, and tonight was a great recap &#8211; along with some news (some of which I can&#8217;t write about just yet &#8211; wait for PDC is all I can say! &#8211; and some of which I can).<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks back, I highlighted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/microsoft-infrastructure-architecture-considerations-part-4-virtualisation.htm\">my post on virtualisation as an infrastructure architecture consideration<\/a> that Microsoft&#8217;s virtualisation strategy is much broader than just server virtualisation, or virtual desktop infrastructure and introduced the following diagram, based on one which appears in many Microsoft slidedecks:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/microsoft-virtualisation.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Microsoft view of virtualisation\" class=\"inline\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the strategy is System Center and, whereas VMware will highlight a number of technical weaknesses in the Microsoft products (some of which are of little consequence in reality), this is where Microsoft&#8217;s strength lies &#8211; especially with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/microsoft-virtualisation-news.htm\">System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 just about to be released<\/a> (more on that soon) &#8211; as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/fujitsu-opinion-on-virtualisation.htm\">management is absolutely critical to successful implementation of a virtualisation strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few days I&#8217;ll discuss the various components included in this diagram and highlight some of the key points about the various streams: server; desktop; application; and presentation virtualisation &#8211; as well as how they are all brought together in System Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting at Microsoft&#8217;s London offices waiting for this evening&#8217;s Microsoft Virtualization User Group (MVUG) event to start reminded me that I still haven&#8217;t written up my notes on the various technologies that make up Microsoft&#8217;s virtualisation portfolio. It&#8217;s been three months since I spent a couple of days in Reading learning about this, and tonight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/microsoft-virtualization-part-1-introduction.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Virtualization: part 1 (introduction)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1,13],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-microsoft","tag-virtualisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft Virtualization: part 1 (introduction) - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/microsoft-virtualization-part-1-introduction.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Microsoft Virtualization: part 1 (introduction) - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sitting at Microsoft&#8217;s London offices waiting for this evening&#8217;s Microsoft Virtualization User Group (MVUG) event to start reminded me that I still haven&#8217;t written up my notes on the various technologies that make up Microsoft&#8217;s virtualisation portfolio. 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