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“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 physical and virtual operating system environments...
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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
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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 when double clicking on a VM. Some features...
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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 and remains available on CodePlex. The previous...
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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 is the Hyper-V host IPv4 ...
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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 you want included in a snapshot by drive letter (e...
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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 which uses Synchronous Data Mirroring with Active...
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Microsoft released an KB article Q957256 describing methods that you can use to (in-place) upgrade Hyper-V to Windows Server 2008 R2 from a Windows Server 2008 installation that has the Hyper-V role enabled. During the in-place upgrade of the parent partition from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server...
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Sysinternals offers a free P2V tool called Disk2vhd that creates VHDs (Virtual Hard Disks) of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC and/or Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). You can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online, since it uses Windows Volume Snapshot (VSS) capability, to create consistent...
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If you’re dealing with Hyper-V virtualisation, have a look the this blog post from Microsoft Support Services on the top issues and resolutions with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008. The issues are categorized below with the top issue(s) in each category, listed with (possible) resolutions and additional...
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Want to know more about Windows Server 2008 R2? Learn more here with access to Whitepapers, Datasheets, ppts and other resources. Download here Presentations Windows Server 2008 R2 Overview Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory Updates Building an Efficient Branch Infrastructure Using Windows Server...
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Missing Hyper-V and/or BITS update causes Hyper-V hosts to go into a “Needs Attention” state If your Hyper-V hosts do not have the two updates (listed below) installed, SCVMM 2008 server will report your hosts as "Needs Attention" (and the substatus for Virtualization Service Version will show...
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Virtual Device (VDev) With Hyper-V, a virtual device is a software module that provides an I/O path for a partition and are configurable via Hyper-V Manager console. A VDev allows a single physical device attached to the primary partion to be shared across multiple child partitions. Each partition...
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Below a list of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V sessions lined up for this years WinHEC 2008 . It covers some exciting new stuff… Microsoft Hyper-V - ENT-T587 This session provides an overview of the recently launched Microsoft Hyper-V product, its architecture, and how it combines with modern processors...
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On September 8, 2008 Microsoft kicked off its Virtualization Launch wave with a major event in Bellevue, Washington that showcased the latest virtualization products and solutions from Microsoft and its partners, highlighted customer successes and demonstrated our vision for the future of virtualization...