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August 2010 - Posts

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“The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.” – Bill Gates Read More
posted Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:14 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments

VMM tricks: Saving and re-applying the #virtual machine metadata in #VMM

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 Read More
posted Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:30 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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P2V fails with Error 2912 0x80072F0C with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

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 Read More
posted Monday, August 23, 2010 11:38 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Virtual Storage Integrator for Hyper-V

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) Read More
posted Saturday, August 21, 2010 3:19 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Creation date wrong for snapshots on VMs imported to Hyper-V 2008 R2

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 Read More
posted Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1:04 by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Clustering in Hardware Virtualization Environments

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  Read More
posted Sunday, August 15, 2010 10:23 by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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New KB Article: Configuring Certificates for Virtual Machine Connection

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 Read More
posted Friday, August 13, 2010 2:50 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Virtualization of Office Communications Server 2010 “aka Wave 14 “

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 Read More
posted Friday, August 13, 2010 2:49 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Hyper-V Linux Integration Services v2.1 Now ready

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 Read More
posted Friday, August 13, 2010 2:48 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Batch Script to Auto Update Sysinternals Tools

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 Read More
posted Friday, August 13, 2010 2:47 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Guest Failover Clustering with VMware

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 Read More
posted Monday, August 02, 2010 2:01 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Tuning Windows 2008 R2 SP1 dynamic memory for best performance

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 Read More
posted Monday, August 02, 2010 2:00 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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VMM Tricks: VMM Domain Function Level … Why

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 Read More
posted Monday, August 02, 2010 1:58 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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SCVMM and Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory support

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 Read More
posted Monday, August 02, 2010 1:58 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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