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VMM hotfixes... The entire collection :)

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 Read More
posted Thursday, September 23, 2010 6:43 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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VMM Tricks: VMM Self Service Portal and NLB

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 Read More
posted Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:22 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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How to Climb Mountains…

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 Read More
posted Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:21 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments

The Open vSwitch – Key Ingredient of Enterprise Ready Clouds

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 Read More
posted Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:09 AM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Novell Looks to Solve Private Cloud Vendor Lock-in

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 Read More
posted Monday, September 13, 2010 11:37 AM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Recommended hotfixes for System Center Virtual Machine Manager #VMM 2008 R2

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 Read More
posted Monday, September 13, 2010 11:28 AM by Fawzi | 0 Comments

Improve your Hyper-V Virtual Availability – Live Migrate VMs on Shutdown

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 Read More
posted Monday, September 06, 2010 4:40 AM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Top Five Hyper-V Best Practices

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 Read More
posted Monday, September 06, 2010 4:38 AM by Fawzi | 1 Comments
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#Hyper-V: #Linux Integration Services no longer function after a kernel upgrade

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, Read More
posted Monday, September 06, 2010 4:38 AM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Cloud Service Experience: The Service Measurement Index (SMI)

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, Read More
posted Monday, September 06, 2010 4:38 AM by Fawzi | 3 Comments
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Hyper-v Error When you connect to VM “An Authentication error has occured.”

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 Read More
posted Monday, September 06, 2010 4:36 AM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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