There’s been recent press about customers deploying multiple virtualization technologies in production to control costs. Let’s face it, VMware with all it’s bells and whistles (you may not even use) is expensive. Hyper-V is priced right, runs wicked fast, and comes with Windows Server 2008. So with all of that, why not check out Hyper-V? …
Host-based Backup of CSV Volumes
Happy New Year! I’ve received several questions and comment about backing up VMs that reside on CSV volumes. In short, you can do it, but it’s tricky. There’s a great post on the DPM Insider blog about the challenges (Here). Host-based backup of CSV-base VMs works with DPM 2010 and other tools. The trick is…
Having Fun With the Other Blog!
Playing around with the other blog is fun – I’m using more cool pictures like this one of a can! I’ll get back to being technical on this blog again now, sorry for digressing.
New Xeon Shows Muscle of Windows Server 2008 R2!
I’ve been traveling for just about two weeks, and just finally got back from my last stop at the Intel Xeon 7500 launch event in Boston yesterday…what a great new processor that is! I’ve got ALOT to cover in the next few days (like Microsoft’s release of new Integration Services for Linux that include multi-processor…
Linux on Hyper-V: SMP Support
I mentioned in my last post that Microsoft now has multi-processor support for Linux VMs on top of Hyper-V (yeah!). The beta updates to the Linux Integration Services (aka Integration Components / ICs) was big enough new to be picked up by big time Microsoft watchers. There are three enhancements in the beta release of…
Better Linux Performance on Hyper-V With Integration Services
I showed you in my last post how to get nearly any OS running on Hyper-V by adding the Legacy Network Adapter (2114X compatible NIC). Yes it works, but the performance isn’t all that great. Microsoft provides Integration Services (also sometimes referred to as Integration Components or ICs) for Linux to run on Hyper-V which…
How To Run Linux, UNIX, and Other OS’ on Hyper-V
I’ve gotten questions about how I managed to get Hannah Montana Linux (and OpenSolaris and SCO UNIX) to work on Hyper-V. Some folks have tried, but were not able to access network resources (you can clearly see that I was browsing to Bing in the screen shots, but they couldn’t get there!). When you create…
Automated Install of Hyper-V Windows Integration Services
Tony had a question about automating the installation of the Integration Services (aka Integration Components) for Hyper-V. You can copy the contents of the Integration Services ISO onto a physical system before performing a manual P2V (say, into a new C:\IS_install directory). Running setup in the AMD64 setup directory (C:\IS_install\AMD64\support\setup.exe /quiet) will install the ISs…
Hyper-V Linux P2V The Hard Way
I mentioned in a post last week that I would go over some options to perform a Linux Physical to Virtual (P2V) migration on Hyper-V. Before showing you the easy way, I wanted to go over a manual approach that a coworker worked out for me a while back. Even before that, I wanted to…
Hyper-V CPU Data Collection Script
I received an e-mail from someone looking for an electronic version of the VMCPU PowerShell reporting script I wrote for our book on Hyper-V, so I thought I would post it here (FYI the updated, 2nd edition is due out in a month or two!). I wrote to script to address CPU performance monitoring requirements…