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Hyper-V and VHD Performance - Dynamic vs. Fixed

With the recent release of Hyper-V, customers are starting to ask us how to configure Hyper-V to get the best performance. It’s generally recognized that there is overheard running a virtualized environment, but the question that really needs to...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 11:31 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, VHD, Performance, Storage

EMC provides support for Microsoft virtualization initiative

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced consultant readiness, broad technology support and solutions for Microsoft's new virtualization strategy and portfolio, including Microsoft Windows Server 2008...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 1:20 PM by Bink

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

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

Hyper-V and SSD

Mark Harission writes: Just replaced my primary hard disk with a SSD - big performance improvements. These are the timings to start a SharePoint VM from scratch to displaying the first portal page. SSD disk : VHD and state files Slow secondary disk :...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 3:01 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, VHD, Storage

Windows Server 2008's storage features

Although Windows Server 2008 isn't feature-rich for storage, the latest version of the Windows operating system includes Hyper-V and other enhancements that will help benefit storage performance in the long run. Unlike Windows Server 2003, which represented...

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

Filed under: Hyper-V, Storage

Storage considerations for virtual machine configuration

When creating virtual machines with Hyper-V, there are additional considerations that you must take when storing virtual machine configuration. A common misconception is that the virtual machine configuration is only the xml file that contains the hardware...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 12:58 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Storage

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

Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator Version 2.07

This is the latest version of the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator. The Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator enables connection of a Windows host to an external iSCSI storage array using Ethernet NICs. This download can be installed on Windows Server...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 9:57 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Storage, iSCSI

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

Double-Take Software acquires emBoot Inc. for $10 Million

Double-Take® Software, announced today the acquisition of emBoot Inc., experts in network booting technology. emBoot network boot technologies allow organizations to easily assign and re-assign computing workloads to any available Windows or Linux...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 12:00 AM by Bink

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

Boot a Hyper-V guest from an iSCSI LUN

You can boot a Hyper-V guest from an iSCSI LUN I wanted to highlight that you can boot a Hyper-V child partition (guest) from an iSCSI LUN. To do that, you need to expose that LUN to the parent partition (host), make sure the LUN is set as an offline...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 9:18 AM by Bink

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

Windows Embedded Server Products Evaluation

Wow finally you can download evaluation versions of Windows Embedded products like Storage Server, normally only approved OEMs could get it. Now after a simple registration form you can download: Windows Server 2008 for Embedded Systems Windows Server...

Published Sat, Jul 07 2008 2:02 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Storage, Guest

Storage options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V has been in public beta for a while now and lots of people have been experimenting with it. One aspect that I am focusing on is storage for those virtualized environments and more specifically the options related to...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 3:25 PM by Bink

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

Volume GUIDs - Ways To View/Access The Files Within

I have been working with Volume GUIDs more and more in our Hyper-V implementation and there has been a little bit of a learning curve in viewing, modifying, deleting etc... the files that now live on this volume without a drive letter. I haven't seen...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 10:35 PM by mcshinsky

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

Hyper-V Interview with PMs Part 4 - Disks and iSCSI

Technet Edge: John Howard, Ben Armstrong, Bryon Surace are program managers in the server virtualization team and give us the technical details on various components of the Hyper-V architecture. In part 4, we dive into the following components: Determine...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 10:49 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Storage, iSCSI

Hyper-V Controllers: IDE or SCSI?

There's been plenty of blog posts out there saying that there is no support for SCSI in Hyper-V. That's not true. What is true is this. You can use SCSI controllers for disks but not for your boot disk. Your boot disk must be on an IDE controller...

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

Filed under: Hyper-V, Storage

Using Constrained Delegation to remotely manage a server running Hyper-V that uses CIFS/SMB file shares

Jose Barreto's Blog : As explained in my previous blog post at http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/06/24/storing-windows-server-2008-hyper-v-files-on-an-cifs-smb-file-share.aspx , you can store your Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V files in a...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 8:33 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Storage

Seeing Through the Smoke and Mirrors of the Hyper-V/QLogic Storage “Benchmark”

Last Wednesday QLogic announced what appeared to be a very impressive benchmark - QLogic Achieves Near-Native Fibre Channel I/O Performance On Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V . By near native performance, QLogic highlighted throughput of nearly 200,000 IOPs...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 11:06 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Performance, Storage

Sanbolic provides shared storage solution for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V deployments

Sanbolic Inc. announced Tuesday that Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machines can now be stored on a single shared storage area network (SAN) storage volume using Sanbolic Kayo File System . The virtual machines can then be moved independently between...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 2:14 PM by Bink

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

Hyper-V RTM supports disks > 2 TB

Rayc from Bink.nu: I had a chat with Mike Sterling from the Hyper-V product team at Tech Ed 2008. And guess what? When I told him about my issue with direct attached disks larger than 2 TB , he told me this will be fixed in the RTM version of Hyper-V

Published Sun, Jun 06 2008 2:04 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Storage

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Hyper-V and VHD Performance - Dynamic vs. Fixed

EMC provides support for Microsoft virtualization initiative

Sanbolic’s Kayo FS File System Install guide

Hyper-V and SSD

Windows Server 2008's storage features

Storage considerations for virtual machine configuration

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

Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator Version 2.07

Deep Dive into Hyper-V Storage Whitepaper

Double-Take Software acquires emBoot Inc. for $10 Million

Boot a Hyper-V guest from an iSCSI LUN

Windows Embedded Server Products Evaluation

Storage options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Volume GUIDs - Ways To View/Access The Files Within

Hyper-V Interview with PMs Part 4 - Disks and iSCSI

Hyper-V Controllers: IDE or SCSI?

Using Constrained Delegation to remotely manage a server running Hyper-V that uses CIFS/SMB file shares

Seeing Through the Smoke and Mirrors of the Hyper-V/QLogic Storage “Benchmark”

Sanbolic provides shared storage solution for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V deployments

Hyper-V RTM supports disks > 2 TB