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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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The Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta has been posted on the download center along with an overview document and a setup and configuration guide. Please note that all features, support, configuration etc… is subject to change as this is a beta Download
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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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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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If you are using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to manage your Hyper-V hosts you should download and install KB956589 on your Hyper-V hosts. This update resolves several issues to improve reliability when using SCVMM to manage you
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This is by far the longest post both in length and the time it took to figure it out I have ever done - this is also one of the most enjoyable posts/topics since the challenge was pretty high hope it helps. A lot of people have asked me how they can reliably
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Yesterday was the official launch for Hyper-V. I was able to attend a good chunk of the day and there was a lot of excitement around Hyper-V and more about the direction and the future of Virtualization. If you missed the event a lot of the content
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I had a Microsoft partner ask me about SQL and Exchange support on Hyper-V earlier today – being that when I say something it’s “Microsoft said…” I had to find the official KB/TechNet articles to refer to. Well after spending about 20 minutes searching
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Over the last few months I have gotten a lot of questions about backing up Hyper-V virtual machines… Do you run the backup software in the virtual machine or on the parent or do you just “snapshot” the virtual machine? Some of the confusion has
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I am happy to announce that the Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide went live at the end of last week. This is the first version of this document, I am told that additional sections will be added as they are completed and reviewed. Hyper-V
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I get a lot of questions from people asking what servers have been tested and work with Hyper-V. The Windows Server Catalog ( www.windowsservercatalog.com ) has a hardware category specifically for Hyper-V that lists all servers that have passed
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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
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