This article describes recommended updates to install to address issues when you are managing hosts or are performing a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion by using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Use the information...

A very interesting question in Technet forums about VMM SSP high availability “Virtual Machine Manager does not support Network Load Balancing (NLB) clusters in Windows Server 2008, which are required in order to distribute the network traffic among...

How to Climb Mountains… An extract from Paulo Coelho’s latest book: “Like the Flowing River – Thoughts and Reflections”. Choose the mountain you want to climb: Don’t be influenced by what other people say: ‘that one’s prettier’ or...

Source posted by Simon Crosby I’m often asked what Citrix and the open source community are trying to achieve with the Open vSwitch Project. The Open vSwitch is an open source virtual switch for Xen (and therefore XenServer, and in future perhaps...

Source With its Cloud Manager software released on Monday, Novell hopes to address the vendor lock-in problem facing enterprises building private clouds. Cloud Manager allows IT staff to manage virtualized resources that may be based on different...

This article describes recommended updates to install to address issues when you are managing hosts or are performing a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion by using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Microsoft KB http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;239771...

A very useful post from Deliberations from Dave Hyper-V clustering is a pretty rock solid thing, and Live Migration (introduced as we all know with Server 2008 R2) is virtually identical to VMWare’s long-available VMotion technology – pick up a...

NetApp team had a very interesting article on Hyper-V best practice (Source) Microsoft® Hyper-V™ virtualization technology has been shipping for more than a year. Tech OnTap profiled the use of Hyper-V with NetApp® technology in several past...

Consider the following scenario: You are running Linux based virtual machines on Hyper-V with the 2.1 version of the Linux Integration Services installed. You apply an updated kernel in the Linux based virtual machine. After applying the kernel update,...

The Service Measurement Index (SMI) is a standard method for measuring the end-to-end consumer experience for any number of IT services. The SMI Framework is designed to help organizations measure any number of IT services available to them,...

Another interesting problem form Hyper-V forum, Cédric from Hyper-V forum had a problem with new installed Hyper-V server when he tried to connect to VMs. From the Hyper-V Manager console, when you try to connect to a local VM, no problem. But...

“The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.” – Bill Gates...

Michael Michael has posted a great blog that outlines exactly how to restore the metadata through the use of powershell scripts. http://blogs.technet.com/b/m2/archive/2010/04/16/saving-and-re-applying-the-virtual-machine-metadata-in-vmm.aspx The saved...

When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to perform a Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion, the job may fail at 60% with the following error: Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the vmmserver.contoso.com...

Scott form blog.scottlowe.org shared yesterday a very cool stuff, thank you for sharing it. Most of my virtualization focus centers on VMware and its product portfolio, but VMware isn’t the only virtualization solution in town. I’m sure they (VMware)...

I think this forum post is deserve sharing Situation : Windows Server 2008 R2 with latest patches (SP1 beta is NOT installed) Windows Server 2008 SP2 with latest patches CreationTimes for snapshots of virtual machines that were originally created on...

So this is an interesting topic… Server virtualization technologies have become so simple and efficient for most organizations.. Using the advanced technologies to provide high availability like ( Hyper-V Live and Quick migration or VMWare ...

Hyper-V team just published a new KB article called “Configuring Certificates for Virtual Machine Connection“ that talks about the way Hyper-V uses certificates and how to set it up. They also explain why we need them, something that might...

A while ago I wrote about virtualization of Office Communication Server 2007 R2, OCS 2007 R2 had a limited supportability for virtualization” Only the Presence, IM (including remote access, federation, and PIC) and Group Chat workloads”. The next...

We are really excited to announce the availability of the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services for Linux Version 2.1. This release marks yet another milestone in providing a comprehensive virtualization platform to our customers. Customers who...

While the Microsoft Sysinternals tools are incredibly powerful and useful, the one feature they lack is the ability to check for new versions. Currently, you have to periodically check the Sysinternals site and compare versions between your system...

So what is the supported configuration to run Windows Cluster on VMware. lden makes it all clear over on the clustering blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2010/07/27/10042799.aspx This blog discusses running a Windows Server Failover Cluster...

What is Dynamic Memory? Dynamic memory overview Dynamic memory allows you to configure a virtual machine so that the amount of memory assigned to the virtual machine is adjusted while the virtual machine is running, in reaction to the amount of...

So most of use already knows that VMM 2008 R2 required Windows 2003 Domain level for the installation and I already blogged about some error that you may face if VMM is connected and authenticated by windows 2000 domain controller in the installation...

This is a very important question… When SCVMM will support Dynamic Memory feature introduced in Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V server? There is less public information about the new features that integrated with Windows 2008 R2 SP1 so far, So I had...