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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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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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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 AM 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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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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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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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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SCVMM and 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 Friday, July 23, 2010 7:01 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 Step by Step Guide- Part One

What is Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0? Microsoft is enabling customers to build the foundation for private cloud infrastructure using Windows Server/Hyper-V and the System Center family of products with Read More
posted Friday, July 16, 2010 2:49 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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