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So you want to use passthough disks with Hyper-V cool – but how do you script attaching them? Well here’s your answer… But first you need to decide if you are going to attach them to the virtual IDE controller or the virtual SCSI controller.
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If your running System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) you should take a look at KB 962941 . The KB describes and links to all of the recommended Windows hotfixes, SCVMM hotfixes and Hyper-V server hotfixes that are important for SCVMM functionality.
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I think it might be best to start at ground zero with this topic and explain what a snapshot really is and how it work’s (if you already know skip a head…). Hyper-V introduced a new feature called a snapshot – snapshots allow you to capture and
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Virtualization Review posted the results of a performance shootout between Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESX, and Citrix XenServer… The launched three tests against the various platforms. First was a small number of heavy workload systems,
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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 connect to the virtual machine because the authentication
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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 Microsoft and Red Hat Cooperative Technical Support
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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. Issue 1 If you back up a Hyper-V virtual machine
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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 graphically intense workloads. The reason for this
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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 support for Hyper-V (a definite plus).
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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 KVP’s ). Check them out if your looking
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A new Hyper-V case study was published late last week. In this study they also employed the Sanbolic Melio FS clustered file system – which if you haven’t looked it is absolutely worth looking at (it’s really cool). Using this file system
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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 recommendations. The full document can be downloaded
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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 Tool Download Details This Solution Accelerator includes the following tool
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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 feature specifically for Hyper-V named Cluster Shared
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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 Cool! http://poshoholic.com/2008/10/22/powergui-now-with-100-more-hyper-v/
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