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Not so long ago, I wrote about the new Best Practice Analyzer for Hyper-V being available. But what does it check? It checks 3 areas: Prerequisites : identify gaps in Hyper-V configuration that should be addressed before administrators run a Best...
Find it here With courtesy of ServerTalk and Ben Armstrong for bringing it to our attention…
This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2. It focuses on architecture, snapshots, live migration, virtual networking, storage, and import/export. You can use this poster in conjunction...
Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) is a server management tool that is available in Windows Server 2008 R2. BPA reports best practice violations to the administrator after BPA scans the roles that are installed on Windows Server 2008 R2. Administrators...
There are two new default folders that Hyper-V R2 creates during installation to store virtual machine– related files: %SystemDdrive%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Snapshots Cache %SystemDdrive%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines...
This is a free ebook for IT professionals who want to learn more about the latest Microsoft virtualization technologies, including Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Microsoft...
“The Windows Server 2008 R2 licensing guide provides an in-depth overview of the Windows Server 2008 R2 core product offerings, including product names, available sales channels, licensing models, and number of running instances allowed per license in...
If you need assistance in any of these areas below, have a look at the Technet Hyper-V Library . Planning Installation Deployment Management Virtual workloads Security Performance High-Availability
Just wanted to share with you same nice Hyper-V “gadgets” that make life more fun… Tore Lervik created a sidebar gadget to see what the Hyper-V servers are doing from your workstation. The gadget can list multiple servers at once and also support VMconnect...
Microsoft released the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP), designed to simplify and streamline IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments...
The new PowerShell cmdlets for Hyper-V (by James O’Neill) are implemented in the form of a PowerShell version 2 module which is distributed as a single zip file from http://PShyperV.codeplex.com . A previous version was implemented for version 1 of PowerShell...
Hyper-V provides virtual machines with a pool of Media Access Control (MAC) addresses when Hyper-V is installed. Hyper-V has an algorithm to avoid duplicate MAC addresses on a single host, but not across multiple hosts. A crucial element in this algorithm...
“Covering every aspect of Windows Server 2008 R2 in nine chapters and approximately 200 pages is clearly an impossible task. Rather than try to cover everything, we’ve focused on what is new and important, while giving you the context from Windows Server...
A while ago , I wrote about the free P2V tool Disk2VHD from Sysinternals. Now, an update is available that provides command line support. Disk2vhd includes command-line options that enable you to script the creation of VHDs. Specify the volumes...
StarWind iSCSI SAN software is a storage virtualization software which turns any standard 64-bit or 32-bit Windows Server into a fail-safe SAN that uses an existing Ethernet network. StarWind Enterprise HA is a special High Availability edition...
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