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TechEd 2010

Last week was TechEd 2010 held in New Orleans, it was a great conference with over 10,000 attendees...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 06/14/2010

Writing Your Own VMConnect App/Web Interface For VM Console Access To Hyper-V VM’s

  Ever since Hyper-V’s first beta I’ve had people ask about the ability to write there own...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 06/01/2010

Windows Server 2008 SP1 Here We Come… With Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX For Hyper-V

I’ve been waiting and waiting to post this and today I can… Today we officially announced Windows...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 03/18/2010

Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Performance White Paper

It must be white paper week :) – today we posted a great document discussing virtual hard disk (VHD)...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 02/26/2010

Hyper-V: Live Migration Network Configuration Guide

Today we released a great new document discussing requirements, recommendations and options for...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 02/25/2010

Attaching Passthough Disks Via WMI (SCSI or IDE)

So you want to use passthough disks with Hyper-V cool – but how do you script attaching them? ...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/16/2009

Recommend Hotfixes For System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)

If your running System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) you should take a look at KB...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 04/13/2009

Hyper-V: Background Merging of AVHD’s… When’s it done?

I think it might be best to start at ground zero with this topic and explain what a snapshot really...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 03/10/2009

Performance Smack Down - Hyper-V vs. VMware vs. Citrix

Virtualization Review posted the results of a performance shootout between Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 03/09/2009

Hyper-V VMMS Certificate Expiration Problem and Resolution

In the coming days/weeks some of you may see some new errors from Hyper-V.  The first is an...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 03/04/2009

How Are My VHD’s/Passthough Disk’s Connected To My Virtual Machine?

Updated 2/23 – Added VHD File Size and Fixed a Few Bugs. This is a follow up on my previous post on...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 02/16/2009

Red Hat Support Coming To Hyper-V

Last night Mike Neil posted to the Virtualization Team Blog regarding a new agreement between...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 02/16/2009

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta Released

The Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta has been posted on the download center along with an...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/26/2009

Hyper-V Backup/Restore QFE Released

If you are backing up your Hyper-V virtual machines using our VSS writer (backing up the physical...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/16/2009

Hyper-V V2: Guest Only External Networks + Add Roles Wizard Changes

The Hyper-V best practice in traditional production environments is that any physical network...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/12/2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Download Public

Ok the Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta is now available for public download… Take a look at...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/09/2009

Performance Issues With Some Graphic Cards and Hyper-V

If you are using Hyper-V on a workstation machine with a high-end or consumer graphics card you may...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/09/2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta… Ohh and Windows 7 too…

Unless you’ve been under a rock all day you know that Windows 7 Beta was announced and released last...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/08/2009

VHD Servicing Tool 2.0

About a month ago I posted about the VHD Servicing tool (Offline Virtual Machine Servicing...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/06/2009

VBScript Versions of The KVP Scripts

Ben Armstrong (aka Virtual PC Guy) posted some great VBScript and PowerShell KVP scripts. ...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/05/2009

New Hyper-V Case Study (MLS Property Information Network)

A new Hyper-V case study was published late last week.  In this study they also employed the...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 11/24/2008

Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment

The SQL Performance Team has published an excellent document on running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 11/24/2008

Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool

Many of you may have already seen this but if you haven't it's pretty cool... From the October Issue...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 11/13/2008

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Reviewers Guide Posted

The Windows Server 2008 R2 (Beta) Reviewers Guide has been posted, 74 pages of riveting marketing...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 11/07/2008

Hyper-V PDC Recordings Posted

Both the recording’s from my and Nihar’s talks from PDC have been posted from our PDC talks… Enjoy!...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 11/02/2008

PDC Update Day 2 – Windows 7

Day 2 started off with Ray’s talking about the convergence of the conventional pc platform and the...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/29/2008

PDC Update Day 1

Day 1 has come and gone by the time I got back to my hotel last night I was pretty much dead on my...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/28/2008

PDC Update: Day –1 and Day 0

I flew in on Saturday and I think the flight was about 90% Microsoft employees including Mike...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/26/2008

SCVMM Question #1 – “Why do my hosts show Needs Attention?” or “Virtualization Service Version Status Is Not Up-To-Date”

I have been onsite with a customer this week helping evaluate Hyper-V and System Center Virtual...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/23/2008

Hyper-V PowerGUI PowerPack – Now That’s Power….

I loved PowerGUI ever since I found it a month ago or so… Well Kirk and the PowerGUI guys have done...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/23/2008

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTM’ed Today!

A big pat on the back for our friends in the System Center Virtual Machine Manager team – they have...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/22/2008

Virtualization Sales Strong, Hyper-V Strong First Quarter

IDC released a report this morning entitled “Virtualization Continues to See Strong Growth in Second...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/16/2008

PDC Teaser – Attaching a VHD to A Virtual Machine

PDC is just around the corner now – I am giving the dry run of my talk tomorrow morning, so of...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/13/2008

Microsoft Hyper-V Server Available Now – For FREE!

You can now download Microsoft Hyper-V Server for free from Microsoft Download center.  It’s...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/01/2008

Are You Signed Up For PDC Yet?

Seriously are you?  Today it was announced that in addition to Ray Ozzie and Rick Rashid they...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 09/25/2008

Hyper-V Update For System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Managed Servers

If you are using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to manage your Hyper-V hosts you...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 09/24/2008

24 Core Support For Hyper-V Hosts!

There is a newly released update for Hyper-V that will increase the support limit from 16 logical...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 09/23/2008

Hyper-V QFE Released For VSS Enabled Backup Issue

If you use Windows Server Backup or any other VSS aware backup utility you should make sure and pick...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 09/09/2008

Free Hyper-V + Live Migration + SCVMM

Yesterday was the official launch for Hyper-V.  I was able to attend a good chunk of the day...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 09/09/2008

Happy Virtualization Launch Day!

Today is the launch for Microsoft Virtualization including Hyper-V.  I will be attending parts...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 09/08/2008

New Virtualization Feed

The Microsoft marketing team has setup a Virtualization blog RSS aggregator at...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/27/2008

What Applications Are Supported Running On Hyper-V Virtual Machines?

I had a Microsoft partner ask me about SQL and Exchange support on Hyper-V earlier today – being...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/27/2008

Open Source PowerShell Editor -- PowerGUI

Many of you know I have been a fan of PowerShellPlus for quite a while, but I was turned on to a new...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/22/2008

Hyper-V WMI: What VHD’s/Physical Disks Are Associated With a Virtual Machine?

I  got a great question based on yesterday’s post (by the way my e-mail was blocking a lot of...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/21/2008

Backing Up Hyper-V Virtual Machines Using Windows Server Backup

Over the last few months I have gotten a lot of questions about backing up Hyper-V virtual machines…...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/20/2008

New Hyper-V WMI Doc’s… Plus It’s Official I’ll Be Speaking at PDC… Plus Cluster Fix for Hyper-V…

Hyper-V WMI Documentation First off I am happy to say the Hyper-V WMI documentation is finally post...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/08/2008

PDC 2008 Here We Come!

Hyper-V will be well represented at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this...

Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/01/2008

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