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AP - Dailey & Vincent won emerging artist and gospel recorded performance trophies at the International Bluegrass Music Association awards Thursday.

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Driving her new environmentally friendly hybrid SUV, Jessica Alba was spotted out and about on Thursday (October 2) as she visited her acting coach in Hancock Park.

The “Into the Blue” babe is gearing up for roles in “An Invisible Sign of My Own” and “Sin City 2” - two new movies which are getting ready to start filming.

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Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Unleashed (c) by Sams

The type of the release is: eBook
In the PDF format with ISBN: 0672330288 and Pub Date: September 13, 2008
The size of the release is: 05 disks x 2.88mb
And released on: 09/19/2008

Windows® Server 2008 Hyper-V Unleashed

Rand Morimoto
Jeff Guillet

Includes coverage of
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

Using the Hyper-V virtualization capabilities built into Windows Server
2008, organizations can slash costs for power, space, and maintenance,
and dramatically improve IT flexibility at the same time. This is the
first book to offer comprehensive, independent, real-world coverage of
planning, designing, implementing, and supporting Windows Server 2008
Hyper-V virtualization environments. Authored by Rand Morimoto and Jeff
Guillet–top consultants of Microsoft technologies with unsurpassed
experience deploying Hyper-V in enterprise organizations–this book
delivers start-to-finish guidance for every facet of your virtualization
initiative.

Leverage the experience from hundreds of real world implementations of
Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 in your deployment of a
virtualized server environment

- Implement best practices for planning, prototyping, and deploying
Hyper-V–including strategies, processes, and templates
- Install and configure Windows 2008 Server with Windows Hyper-V
Services
- Provide guest operating systems ranging from Windows 2003 Server to
Linux
- Administer Hyper-V Host Servers as standalone hosts or in multiple
host environments
- Optimize Hyper-V Host Server and guest sessions, by efficiently
allocating memory, processors,
- disk space, and other resources
- Move from basic server virtualization to a systematically managed
virtual enterprise environment
- Use Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to centrally monitor all your
Hyper-V hosts and guest sessions
- Quickly provision new guest images wherever and whenever you need
them
- Implement reliable failover processes to overcome failures in guest
sessions, host systems, or sites
- Troubleshoot problems with both Hyper-V hosts and guest operating
systems

Rand Morimoto is president, CEO, and principal consultant for Convergent
Computing, Microsoft’s 2007 Partner of the Year. Convergent Computing is
one of only a handful of Microsoft early adopter organizations working
with Hyper-V in production environments a year before the product
release. He has authored, coauthored, or contributed to more than two
dozen books, including Windows Server 2008 Unleashed and Microsoft
Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed.

Jeff Guillet, senior consultant for Convergent Computing, holds MCITP:
Enterprise Administrator, MCSE, MCSE: Messaging, and CISSP
certifications. He was technical editor of Windows Server 2008 Unleashed
and contributing author of Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed.

Category: Windows Server
Covers: Hyper-V
User Level: Intermediate—Advanced

$39.99 USA / $43.99 CAN / £25.99 Net UK
Hyper-V is Microsoft’s server virtualization technology built-in to
Windows Server 2008. Virtual Machine Manager 2008 is a System Center
add-on that helps organizations better manage their virtual guest
images, delegate administration and management, and even extract virtual
images from existing physical and virtual servers. This book, Hyper-V
Unleashed, was written by authors Rand Morimoto and Jeff Guillet who
have worked with Hyper-V and VMM/2008 for well over a year prior to the
formal product release. Dozens of organizations trusted Hyper-V enough
to put it into full production environments before formal product
release.

This book covers:
· Assessment of the resource demands of existing physical
servers
· Analysis of the assessment data to determine the right size
host servers to acquire
·         Architecture planning and design
·         Step-by-step hands-on assistance
·         Disaster recovery steps for recovering Exchange

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Continuing along with their hectic press tour, Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens attended a screening of “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” in Madrid, Spain on Thursday (October 2).

The Disney co-star couple just flew into Spain earlier in the day following a two-day promotional stop in Paris, France. Nonetheless, both looked on top of their game - with Vanessa sporting a Jenny Packham dress with matching footwear while Zac opted to wear a hunky navy suit.

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AP - LOS ANGELES — Who watched some of “Watchmen”?

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With only a month to go until their baby is born (the expected due date is sometime in November), Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are enjoying their last days before parenthood.

And last night, they were spotted enjoying the festivities at Gen Art’s 6th Annual Fresh Faces in Fashion at Chase Promenade in Chicago, where the “Fall Out Boy” stud played host.

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Taking a break from the chateau life, Angelina Jolie was spotted touching down at the airport in New York City early Thursday morning (October 2).

Carrying her daughter, Shiloh, while partner Brad Pitt tended to the rest of their brood, the Jolie-Pitts have flown in from Germany so Angelina can promote her latest film, “Changeling”.

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Events Budget Planner covers everything you might need
to budget, plan, and pay the bills for an event. You
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