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Free e-book on Microsoft Virtualization

posted Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:15 AM by Fawzi

“Microsoft has a broad portfolio of Virtualization technologies and you talk about the concept of ‘from the Desktop to the datacenter’; what does that really mean?” The short answer is that there are many ways to approach virtualization, depending Read More

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Filed Under: Virtualization, Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V

SQL Server Consolidation with Microsoft Virtualization

posted Friday, January 29, 2010 11:19 PM by Fawzi

Source Hello, my name is Vipul Shah and I’m a Senior Product Manager with the Virtualization Team. Due to its ability to drive down costs and drive up resource usage, Microsoft SQL Server consolidation is top of mind for our customers these days. Read More

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Filed Under: Virtualization, Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V, Infrastrcture

VMM Tricks: V2V failed with Error (protocol error : too many authentication failures for root)

posted Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:19 AM by Fawzi

When you perform a V2V from a VMware ESX 3.5 host and I get the following error: Error (12709) The operation on did not complete successfully because of the error: Server sent disconnect message: type 2 (protocol error : too many authentication Read More

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Filed Under: Virtualization, Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V, VMM, VMware

VMM tricks:Manage Certificate to connect to VMs in the Perimeter

posted Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:08 PM by Fawzi

Most of the times you may need to host some VMs on the Perimeter host, After adding this host to VMM console you still can't connect to the VMs on that host. Your remote desktop connection failed because the remote computer cannot be authenticated..Certificate Read More

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Filed Under: Virtualization, Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V, VMM, VMM R2

Microsoft's Desktop Virtualization product line as of 2009

posted Tuesday, December 29, 2009 11:48 AM by Fawzi

Gabe Knuth has wrote a very good article about Microsoft's Desktop Virtualization product line as of 2009 Last up in our rundown of the Big 5's desktop virtualization product lines is Microsoft. This is probably the most ambiguous vendor, because Read More

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Filed Under: Virtualization, Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V, VMM R2

Running Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in a Virtualized Topology

posted Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:16 PM by Fawzi

This whitepaper defines the supported topologies and provides best practice recommendations for running Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and SQL Server™ 2008 in a Windows Hyper-V environment or other hypervisor technologies.OverviewOffice Communications Read More

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Filed Under: Virtualization, Hyper-V

Hyper-V Protection with DPM 2010 Beta - How to automatically protect new Virtual Machines

posted Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:32 PM by Fawzi

A great post about adding new VMs automatically in the DPM 2010 protection. DPM team had a great question come into the DPM Newsgroup recently. How do I automatically protect new VMs added to a Hyper-V host using DPM? In any virtualized environment, Read More

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Filed Under: Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V

The ultimate Hyper-V Resources Guide

posted Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:09 PM by Fawzi

Source It’s all available at : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565807.aspx Read More

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Filed Under: Virtualization, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”

posted Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:47 PM by Fawzi

Source: Ask the Core TeamWindows Server 2008 R2 has been publicly available now for only a short period of time, but we are already seeing a good adoption rate for the new Live Migration functionality as well as the new Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) Read More

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Filed Under: Virtualization, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V, Tips & Tricks

Cluster Disk With Identifier (identifier) has a Persistent Reservation on it

posted Friday, November 27, 2009 10:37 AM by Fawzi

One of my customer's team member had destroy the Hyper-V Cluster by mistake. He formatted the cluster nodes without evict them before doing that . The nodes of the clsuter used to be part of old cluster that was destroyed by mistake. I tried Read More

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Filed Under: Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V

Hyper-V pass-through disk performance vs. fixed size VHD files and dynamic VHD files in Windows Server 2008 R2

posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 9:24 AM by Fawzi

Daveberm on Clustering For Mere Mortals had did some good effort to test new Dynamic VHD files in windows 2008 R2, With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, one of the enhancements was improving the performance of dynamic VHD files. Prior to R2, writes Read More

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Filed Under: Virtualization, Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V, Tips & Tricks

Getting Started with Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V

posted Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 PM by Fawzi

Citrix learning is providing new training for Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V. Go and catch your seat. Description This course is available at no cost for a limited time only! Register now to add this course to your learning transcript and lock Read More

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Filed Under: Virtualization, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V, Citrix

Re-blog: Microsoft Site Recovery Solution Launch

posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:45 PM by Fawzi

Source I’m re-blogging here. Over at Virt Planet blog, Jim wrote the following: This week Microsoft is launching a comprehensive solution to help customers implement cost effective, end-to-end site recovery programs. Built on proven capabilities in Read More

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Filed Under: Virtualization, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V, VMM

VMM tricks: SCVMM Service may take up lots of memory

posted Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:03 AM by Fawzi

Source: Hyper-V notes from the field In a large SCVMM environment we noticed that the SCVMM Service (vmmservice.exe) allocates lots of memory (>4GB). You may notice that you are unable to create new console sessions or existing sessions Read More