Uncovering the secrets of automating DFS reporting
For my first non-Vmware post in a while, this is kind of interesting!
Guys are hard at work with the labs at the moment here in sunny Hobart, and so I begin trawling the blogs (as is my want). I discovered this brilliant little gem from Mike DiPetrill’s blog.
There are no permanent enemies in politics, just permanent interests, the truism goes; and this is apparently true in business as well. InternetNews.com has learned that VMware has joined arch-rival Microsoft’s third-party server virtualization validation program (SVVP).
The constant question with Vmware is, “Can I cluster using Microsoft Clustering Services?”
The answer now, thankfully, is yes you can. And just to stretch it out a bit more there’s this!
The Microsoft near-term strategy to win the virtualization market is clear: deliver a low cost hypervisor with basic management capabilities to attract SMBs, deliver a centralized management console which simplifies the migration from VMware ESX to Hyper-V to attract the Enterprises, call for support and interoperability the entire partners ecosystem to attract both.
This started happening in the 2823 Virtual PCs.
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/10/24/484461.aspx
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