Just wanted to put part 2 up of Jeff’s post! ——————- Virtualization Nation, Last week, I blogged about the importance of HA for unplanned host downtime. By the number of responses, this is clearly a hot topic. Today, I was going to discuss planned downtime, specifically, the differences between Quick Migration and Live Migration; however,…
Tag: Hyper-V
Hyper-V Quick Migration & VMware Live Migration Part 1
Jeff through up this great post on Hyper-V quick migration. I think this is a really interesting post as it generally gets me quite frustrated when pep’s dont compare apples for apples! and the whole Quick Migration, Live Migration (Vmotion) bit is something that is never compared in the way it should be! ——————————— Generally…
Cool Hyper-V Registry Settings
Andrew Auret is one of our hot shots MCS consultants in the UK. He emailed me earlier with some bits and pieces with regards to Hyper-V and sent me a really handy tip! Well like any handy tip I do like to pass it onto the community at large! Cool registry entries in the Child…
Hyper-V Manager MMC Available
lets get the tough stuff sorted! the downloads are here ; Vista x64 Edition: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=450931F5-EBEC-4C0B-95BD-E3BA19D296B1&displaylang=en Vista x86 Edition: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BC3D09CC-3752-4934-B84C-905E78BE50A1&displaylang=en Now Jeff touched on this console and its pretty handy for manager your mass of Hyper-V vm’s before SCVMM gets an update ! Last week we announced the Hyper-V Release Candidate and a week later,…
Hyper-V Release Candidate
As Jeff so rightfully pointed out Hyper-V Release Candidate is Here!!! owwwwww yes its how we roll on the virtualization front!!! we are moving forward faster and faster and with all our Kidaro fun this is just one of many great things that we are set to unleash! —————– Virtualization Nation, Things are really busy…
Virtualization TechCenter
New last month, the Virtualization TechCenter offers IT Pros links to technical documentation relative to the breadth of Microsoft’s virtualization products. Documents on the site include assessment, evaluation, deployment information as well as news and announcements about virtualization products. For more information, visit the new site at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/default.aspx
VMM Headlines TechNet Magazine
The cover of the January issue of TechNet Magazine splashed “Living in a Virtual World: Powerful New Tools to Manage a Virtualized Datacenter” and prompted readers to explore the 4,000+ word overview of VMM 2007 by VMM’s own TPM Edwin Yuen. Initially, this issue was intended to highlight the larger System Center story (with VMM…
Storage options for Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V
Jose Barreto’s wrote a great article on the Storage Options for Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. Its funny as I was talking to my college who was trying to set up a few clustering options for Hyper-V and needed a good guide to work from. ——————- Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V has been in public beta…
Hyper-V WMI API’s Publicly Available
The virtualization team is pleased to announce the public beta release of the Hyper-V WMI interfaces. Hyper-V WMI APIs. Hyper-V uses WMI APIs (similar to the Virtual Server COM API) to create, manage, monitor, configure virtual resources. We expect the Hyper-V WMI APIs to be used widely in a variety of ways such as: ·…
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Beta Refresh – Now Available!
I will keep harping on about this tool as the more I use it in projects and work activities the more I think its brilliant! I have been chatting to Baldwin over in the MS MAP team. This tool is just one of these essential little gadgets that just get you from A-Z quickly and…