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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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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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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 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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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 Step by Step Guide- Part Two

Self-Service Portal Components The self-service portal consists of three components: VMMSSP website: A Web-based component that provides a user interface to the self-service portal. Through the VMMSSP website, users can perform various tasks Read More
posted Friday, July 23, 2010 7:01 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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