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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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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 by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Batch Script to Auto Update Sysinternals Tools

While the Microsoft Sysinternals tools are incredibly powerful and useful, the one feature they lack is the ability to check for new versions. Currently, you have to periodically check the Sysinternals site and compare versions between your system Read More
posted Friday, August 13, 2010 2:47 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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VMM tricks: “Virtual Machine Manager lost the connection to the virtual machine because another connection was established to the machine”

After finishing my new test lab to test my new VDI solution I faced this problem. My Lab: 2 Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V hosts Clustered with failover clusterVMM 2008 R2 ServerA new VM with Windows 2008 Finished my Cluster setup and Installed VMM on 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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VMM Tricks: Removing missing VMs from the VMM Administrator Console

Sourceit has come to our attention that there are some customer complaints with regards to missing virtual machines in the administrator console after a cluster failover. Since it is not easy to remove those VMs from the VMM administrator console, Read More
posted Sunday, April 18, 2010 11:24 by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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VMM Tricks: Manage VMM in restrictive Active Directory environment

So you want to manage your VMM infrastructure while keeping an eye on your Hyper-V hosts security. looks like everyone wants to do that. So have you through before about using restricted Group group policy to limit membership for your local admins Read More
posted Friday, February 12, 2010 6:55 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Quote of the Month

“If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.” – Bruce Schneier Read More
posted Friday, December 18, 2009 2:30 by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”

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
posted Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:47 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Hyper-V pass-through disk performance vs. fixed size VHD files and dynamic VHD files in Windows Server 2008 R2

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
posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 9:24 by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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VMM tricks: How to troubleshoot the “Not Responding” host status in VMM 2008

This content is published in Microsoft KB 976640 Step 1: Use Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer // The Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer is a diagnostic tool that you can use to evaluate important configuration settings Read More
posted Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:25 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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