Back in December we released Hyper-V Beta, followed by RC0 in March, RC1 in May and now RTM in June!  This has been one heck of a ride – it’s pretty cool to see this feature go from design, to code, to binaries, to working binaries.  And it...

Ben Armstrong (Virtual PC Guy) told me about this today… Tore Lervik just released version 2.2 of it on Saturday.  I played around with it and it’s pretty cool… Anyone that is monitoring a few servers would definitely find this useful. Check it out...

There are many many blog posts by different people on this but I still get the questions pretty often – “ Will my <Random Computer Manufacture> <Random Computer Model> run Hyper-V? ”   Hyper-V requires processor virtualization extensions...

Since I did my last post on snapshots I have gotten several comments and few e-mails asking how to map ReturnValues to actual human readable strings. I guess not every one just knows that 32773 is Invalid Parameter… Well after many hours of asking and...

After I finished writting this I relized it got a bit long... - I guess I had a lot to talk about! Hope you enjoy it (or at least find it mildly useful) Hyper-V implements a feature known as snapshots, this should not be confused with a...

Hyper-V virtual machines have configuration options that control what happens when the parent/host server shuts down, start’s up, or if a virtual machine’s worker process terminates unexpectedly.  The first two conditions (parent/host shutdown, startup...

The SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager) team has released an update to Virtual Machine Manager 2008 beta for Hyper-V RC1. Instructions to download and install the update can be found on Clive Watson’s blog at SCVMM 2008 beta (Update for Hyper...

I have officially given up on the “Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts” serious, not because of lack of interest but because or extreme interest implying that I would need to do Part 5, 6, 7, 99… Counting past 5 is hard so from now on I will just title...