Check out the Best Practises for Virtualising Exchange Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R Hyper-v : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8647c69d-6c2c-40ca-977e-18c2379b07ad One of the most common questions I get on this topic is : Are Database Availability Groups (DAG’s) supported in a virtual environment? The answer is YES but with conditions. To quote the guidance: “Exchange server virtual…
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Cannot mount VHD as it conflicts with other disks
Sometimes you can run into problems mounting VHD’s. I see it when people start testing/developing scripts. The most common error is : Error (13226)Virtual hard disk <path to VHD> cannot be mounted on host myhost.mydomain.local because it conflicts with other disks. All this means is that anothe process as already mounted your VHD. To unmount,…
Hyper-V : How many network cards do I need?
[If you are viewing this from the main page the second table appears to be missing text. Just view the post on its own by clicking the title] [Edit 19/04/2011 – Include more info on Live Migration NIC] [Edit 19/06/2011 – More info on NICs for cluster communications] This is a topic that comes up…
SQL 2008 R2 Support for System Centre Products
I was asked during the week about the support statements for SQL 2008 R2 and System Centre products. At the time of writing, SQL 2008 R2 is supported for most, if not all, of the System Centre products. There are certain caveats of course. Always refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ie/systemcenter and the support configurations for each product. Here is…
Hyper-V – VM properties hang [Read the instructions first]
I’ve been building out a number of different test environments over the last few weeks and came across a problem when creating a VM in Hyper-V. The create VM wizard would hang just before prompting for the VM name etc. Turns out I had missed something essential in the FAQ’s. The environment I was building…