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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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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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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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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 AM 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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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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