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Virtualizing SQL Server 2008 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Design and configure SQL Server 2008 with High-Availability while leveraging the new features of Windows Server 2008 Clustering and Hyper-V virtualization at this session. Get an in-depth understanding of the new features in SQL Server 2008 high-availability...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 9:05 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide

Managing Virtualization 360 from the Datacenter to the Desktop

Learn about the foundation of the Microsoft virtualization strategy and solutions in this session. Understand the meaning and benefits of virtualization and also gain insights into the overall Microsoft virtualization strategy that range from the desktop...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 9:04 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide

Managing Virtualization with SCVMM and Powershell

Take an inside look at Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager from an architectural and experience a real world view. See how SCVMM and PowerShell can help you manage your virtualized environment seamlessly. The session comes complete with...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 9:01 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide, PowerShell, SCVMM

Enable Sleep / Hibernate with Hyper-V

Excelent tp from Mark Harrison! : I am now using Windows Server 2008 as my primary laptop with Hyper-V ( Link ) ... I now have a partial solution to this problem. You can have Hyper-V installed but not started by the following registry setting: Windows...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 3:36 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide

Planning for Hyper-V Security

Once you have updated the Windows Server® 2008 operating system with the Hyper-V™ technology release bits and enabled the Hyper-V role, you are ready to run virtual machines (VMs) on your server, now called a virtualization server (also called...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 1:18 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide, Security

Sanbolic’s Kayo FS File System Install guide

Ever wonderd how the Sanbolic’s Kayo FS File System will work? Read the install guide, Download at Source ( www.Hyper-V.nu )

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 10:24 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide, Storage, 3rd Party

Introducing SCVMM 2008 Performance & Resource Optimization

PRO stands for Performance & Resource Optimization, which: Is a powerful and valuable feature as the result of integration between SCOM (OpsMgr) and SCVMM ; Is a software package that leverages the System Center Operations Manager framework, which...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 9:09 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide, SCVMM

Why does Hyper-V Manager not always work over VPN connection? Access Denied or RPC server unavailable errors.

This post examines a problem several people have reported when running Hyper-V Remote Management tools over a VPN connection - specifically hitting an error "Access denied. Unable to establish communication between ‘SERVER' and ‘CLIENT'"...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 11:28 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide

A Rookie's Initial Experience with Hyper-V

Graham Jones (Surrey, British Columbia): I should point out that I started down the Hyper-V road with very limited virtualization experience in general. Hitherto I had “played” with Virtual Server and Virtual PC to a very limited extent. So...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 6:54 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide

What are all these AVHD files? –and how to magically make them go away (Hyper-V)

Charles Sterling: I just started playing with Hyper V images for the Team System team and noticed the directory of our primary image contains 48 gigabytes of AVHD files! Looking it up on Technet it turns out AVHD files are Snapshots….Fair Enough...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 11:06 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, VHD, Guide

More on Hyper-V for the ESX Engineer

An update on Hyper-V for the ESX Engineer by Scott Lowe: Aaron mentions that Hyper-V is paravirtualized. Well, sort of. Hyper-V does support a paravirtualization interface (Hypercall, I believe?) for guest operating systems (i.e., Linux) that support...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 9:55 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide

Hyper-V: A new breed of SID

The following is the DACL of the VHD file of a virtual machine declared in Hyper-V: Remember, a VHD file is the virtual hard drive of the VM. Note the SID of the form NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\<GUID> . This GUID (090928A5-etc.) is the only Hyper-V identifier...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 10:40 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, VHD, Guide

Network Issues with Windows Server 2008 RDP and VS/Hyper-V on Dell Servers

Last month I had a client buy and install several Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers. These servers had 2 Quad processors, 16GB or RAM, and 2 300GB 15K RAPM SAS hard disks, making them ideal for medium-range departmental servers. When the machines arrived, I...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 2:16 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide, Networking

Hyper-V for the ESX Engineer

Aaron Delp is an ESX Engineer, here are his notes as he sees Hyper-V: Hyper-V is paravirtualized - paravirtualized means the virtual machine is “aware” (Microsoft uses the term enlightened) that it is virtualized. If the machine isn’t...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 10:27 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide

Delegation Model in Hyper-V – Part 5

dungkhoang: I will show you how to create an AzMan scope and role definition to manage Hyper-V Virtual machines. As discussed in part 3, the ” Virtual Machine Manager Role” includes the following operations: "Allow Input to Virtual Machine"...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 12:59 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide

Another Slipstreaming Hyper-V RTM Guide

The process of using the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for Windows Server 2008 to slipstream the Hyper-V RTM update and the integration components. >> --> Windows Server 2008 shipped with the Beta 1 version of the Hyper-V role. Microsoft...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 11:48 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide

Invoking diskshadow to back up a Virtual Machine from a Hyper-V Host

DiskShadow.exe is a new tool that shipped with Windows Server 2008 and it allows you to create and restore shadow copies (snapshots). The tool is similar to vshadow (a free tool that ships with the Volume Shadow Copy/VSS SDK), but it has a diskpart-like...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 2:09 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide, Storage, Scripts

Delegation Model in Hyper-V – Part 4

Now that you have a good understanding of AzMan, let’s implement a simple delegation model of Hyper-V. I use the following scenario as example. In my training labs, I have a group of students ( Student01, Student02….) to whom I assign a set...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 12:44 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide

Deep Dive into Hyper-V Storage Whitepaper

Dilip Naik a is joining the HyperVoria team! Dilip is a current Microsoft MVP awardee and also a former Microsoft employee. Dilip has an extensive experience in network file systems and ffilter drivers and is also a co-author of the only RFCs ever published...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 8:43 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide, Storage

Hyper-V WMI: Creating a Thumbnail Image

Hyper-V has a WMI API that will allow you to create a thumbnail image of any running or paused virtual machine. You can create any sized thumbnail you want (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 etc…). Creating the image is pretty easy, you just call GetVirtualSystemThumbnailImage...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 5:35 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide, Scripts, PowerShell, Guest

Delegation Model in Hyper-V – Part 3

Displaying Hyper-V Operations As explained in previous posts, all pre-defined Hyper-V operations are stored in the InitialStore.XML file located under C:\Programdata\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V. You can view the list of operations from the AzMan console...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 12:20 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide

Cluster Resource Type options for Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 Clustering includes resource type options which are available by right clicking on the group under Applications and Services. For Hyper-V, we have the following options. 1: Manage virtual machines. This option opens Hyper-V Manager...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 11:37 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Cluster, Guide

VMware Management and SCVMM - Why does SCVMM require Virtual Center in order to integrate?

A popular question that seems to be floating on various blogs and message boards is related to why SCVMM integrates with Virtual Infrastructure by proxying requests through Virtual Center Web Service APIs as opposed to talking directly to ESX. There are...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 10:34 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide, SCVMM, Competition

Optimizing Hyper-V performance: Advanced fine-tuning

When it comes to optimizing virtualization performance, there's a long list of best practices that can squeeze the most value out of your servers. Microsoft's virtualization platform, Hyper-V, is no exception. In my previous tip on optimizing...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 10:18 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Performance, Guide

Redmond Magazine August issue: Hyper-V

Kung-Fu Hypervisor Here's why Microsoft's Hyper-V may become the hypervisor of your choice. Also in this issue: System Center moves Microsoft into the big leagues, product reviews, interview with a hypervisor visionary, and much more. Kung Fu...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 11:54 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide, Opinion, Review

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Virtualizing SQL Server 2008 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Managing Virtualization 360 from the Datacenter to the Desktop

Managing Virtualization with SCVMM and Powershell

Enable Sleep / Hibernate with Hyper-V

Planning for Hyper-V Security

Sanbolic’s Kayo FS File System Install guide

Introducing SCVMM 2008 Performance & Resource Optimization

Why does Hyper-V Manager not always work over VPN connection? Access Denied or RPC server unavailable errors.

A Rookie's Initial Experience with Hyper-V

What are all these AVHD files? –and how to magically make them go away (Hyper-V)

More on Hyper-V for the ESX Engineer

Hyper-V: A new breed of SID

Network Issues with Windows Server 2008 RDP and VS/Hyper-V on Dell Servers

Hyper-V for the ESX Engineer

Delegation Model in Hyper-V – Part 5

Another Slipstreaming Hyper-V RTM Guide

Invoking diskshadow to back up a Virtual Machine from a Hyper-V Host

Delegation Model in Hyper-V – Part 4

Deep Dive into Hyper-V Storage Whitepaper

Hyper-V WMI: Creating a Thumbnail Image

Delegation Model in Hyper-V – Part 3

Cluster Resource Type options for Hyper-V

VMware Management and SCVMM - Why does SCVMM require Virtual Center in order to integrate?

Optimizing Hyper-V performance: Advanced fine-tuning

Redmond Magazine August issue: Hyper-V