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What Applications Are Supported Running On Hyper-V Virtual Machines?
I had a Microsoft partner ask me about SQL and Exchange support on Hyper-V earlier today – being that when I say something it’s “Microsoft said…” I had to find the official KB/TechNet articles to refer...
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New Virtualization Feed
The Microsoft marketing team has setup a Virtualization blog RSS aggregator at http://www.virtualizationfeed.com… They are syndicating the first part of every post related to Virtualization, Hyper-V,...
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Free Hyper-V + Live Migration + SCVMM
Yesterday was the official launch for Hyper-V. I was able to attend a good chunk of the day and there was a lot of excitement around Hyper-V and more about the direction and the future of...
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Hyper-V QFE Released For VSS Enabled Backup Issue
If you use Windows Server Backup or any other VSS aware backup utility you should make sure and pick up KB956697 – Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V VSS writer is not used during a backup job because of...
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24 Core Support For Hyper-V Hosts!
There is a newly released update for Hyper-V that will increase the support limit from 16 logical processors (cores) to 24 logical processors! Since we support up to eight virtual processors for every...
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Hyper-V Update For System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Managed Servers
If you are using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to manage your Hyper-V hosts you should download and install KB956589 on your Hyper-V hosts. This update resolves several issues to...
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server Available Now – For FREE!
You can now download Microsoft Hyper-V Server for free from Microsoft Download center. It’s pretty cool take a look (after all it’s free).Download Links:English | Chinese Traditional (ZH-TW) | All...
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PDC Teaser – Attaching a VHD to A Virtual Machine
PDC is just around the corner now – I am giving the dry run of my talk tomorrow morning, so of course I am working on my demo’s today… Just to give you a bit of a teaser here’s one of the scripts that...
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Virtualization Sales Strong, Hyper-V Strong First Quarter
IDC released a report this morning entitled “Virtualization Continues to See Strong Growth in Second Quarter, According to IDC”… Among the data they report Virtualization licence shipments in Q2 of...
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Hyper-V PowerGUI PowerPack – Now That’s Power….
I loved PowerGUI ever since I found it a month ago or so… Well Kirk and the PowerGUI guys have done it again… They now have a pretty comprehensive PowerShell wrapper for Hyper-V… Pretty...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Reviewers Guide Posted
The Windows Server 2008 R2 (Beta) Reviewers Guide has been posted, 74 pages of riveting marketing stuff about Windows Server 2008 R2 – they actually do a pretty good job talking about a new clustering...
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Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool
Many of you may have already seen this but if you haven't it's pretty cool...From the October Issue of TechNet Magazine... Utility Spotlight Offline Virtual Machine Servicing ToolDownload DetailsThis...
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Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment
The SQL Performance Team has published an excellent document on running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V environment. The document is 37 pages long and has detailed performance information as well as...
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New Hyper-V Case Study (MLS Property Information Network)
A new Hyper-V case study was published late last week. In this study they also employed the SanbolicMelio FS clustered file system – which if you haven’t looked it is absolutely worth looking at (it’s...
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VBScript Versions of The KVP Scripts
Ben Armstrong (aka Virtual PC Guy) posted some great VBScript and PowerShell KVP scripts. These are a great edition to some of my earlier scripts (Adding Host KVP's, Adding Guest KVP's, Modifying...
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VHD Servicing Tool 2.0
About a month ago I posted about the VHD Servicing tool (Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool). Version 2.0 of that tool was made available on December 5th – among other things this version adds...
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Performance Issues With Some Graphic Cards and Hyper-V
If you are using Hyper-V on a workstation machine with a high-end or consumer graphics card you may have noticed some performance problems such as short hangs or glitches especially when running...
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Hyper-V Backup/Restore QFE Released
If you are backing up your Hyper-V virtual machines using our VSS writer (backing up the physical server) you should be aware of a new Hotfix (KB959962) we released today that addresses three issues....
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Red Hat Support Coming To Hyper-V
Last night Mike Neil posted to the Virtualization Team Blog regarding a new agreement between Microsoft and Red Hat to bring Red Hat guest support to Hyper-V. Take a look at Mike’s full blog post...
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Hyper-V VMMS Certificate Expiration Problem and Resolution
In the coming days/weeks some of you may see some new errors from Hyper-V. The first is an error when you try and use VMConnect or SCVMM to connect to a running virtual machine – the error is “Cannot...
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