April, 2011

While I would like to pretend that nothing ever goes wrong with Hyper-V – the fact of the matter is that sometimes things go wrong with the best systems. Hyper-V has been designed in a modular fashion so that you can easily address any problems without...

Over the years I have made a hobby of collecting real copies of the hardware that we emulate inside of our virtual machines.  And this is one of my favorites – the quad-port Intel 21140 network adapter: One of the interesting problems that we hit...

We are currently conducting usability studies on the Hyper-V Management tools – and are looking for people to study.  If you use Hyper-V Manager and will be in the Seattle area May 2-13, the Hyper-V team wants you! Just email v-jebroo@microsoft.com...

I just got asked this question: Is there any reason why; in the Action menu on the Virtual Machine Connection window -  most of the actions are written as “Turn Off…” or “Shut Down…” whereas “Save” and “Pause” have no trailing “…”? And then you compare...

Just over a week ago – we released the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target for free (details here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2011/04/04/microsoft-iscsi-software-target-3-3-for-windows-server-2008-r2-available-for-public-download.aspx ). When...

Just over a week ago the SCVMM team released SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 (details here ), further more Greg - from the SCVMM team - posted the details on how to get this for yourself here .  Of key importance is that this adds support for managing the new...

The Remote Server Administration Tools have just been updated for Windows 7 SP1.  You can grab them from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d This means that now you can manage dynamic...

If you have an existing installation of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (the stand alone version of Hyper-V) you can install service pack 1 by following the process that is outlined here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/07/16/installing...