This report displays the number of servers in the environment and gives a breakdown and percentage view of physical vs virtual: Declare @Total as int Declare @Physical as int Declare @Virtual as int set @Virtual = (Select distinct count (*) From v_R_System full Join v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM On v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.ResourceID = v_R_System.ResourceID where v_R_System.Operating_System_Name_and0 LIKE ‘%server%’ and v_R_System.Client0 [...]

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For many years I’ve had to scour the interwebs to find out if hardware virtualization is supported by Mircosoft for a particular product. I’m not sure how long it has been around but I’ve finally found the Windows Server Catalog site which will simply tell you if it is supported or not: http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage=svvpwizard.htm For example [...]

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Looks quite nice. New features include: Support for Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu Linux distributions as source Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as source Support for Parallels Desktop virtual machines as source Power off source machine at the end of the conversion Selection of the target virtual disk and virtual volumes configuration Configuration of [...]

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