No more Parent Partition

Microsoft has renamed the Parent Partition in Hyper-V.  It is now called the Management Operating System.
Nice that Microsoft folks are starting to admit in passing that their is a heavy dependency on this MOS.  Giving it a real name is a starting point.

Posted on March 18, 2009 at 2:40 am by iguy · Permalink · Leave a comment
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So how important is LiveMigration/VMotion now?

One of Microsoft’s big marketing statements I’ve heard several times is that LiveMigration wasn’t that important since clients don’t change when they do work on hardware even with LiveMigration.   I’ll cover why this in depth on why this is a flawed thought for an enterprise company in a future blog entry.
Along comes a critical use [...]

Posted on October 28, 2008 at 3:37 am by iguy · Permalink · 6 Comments
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