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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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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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Unless you’ve been under a rock all day you know that Windows 7 Beta was announced and released last night – along with Windows 7 Beta we also announced and released Server 2008 R2 (formally known as Windows 7 Server). If you have an MSDN subscription
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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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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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A big pat on the back for our friends in the System Center Virtual Machine Manager team – they have released SCVMM 2008. This release supports Hyper-V, Virtual Server and VMware! You can download the evaluation of SCVMM at http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/virtualmachinemanager/en/us/default.aspx
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You can now download Microsoft Hyper-V Server for free from Microsoft Download center. It’s pretty cool take a look (after all it’s free). Download Links: English | Chinese Traditional (ZH-TW) | All Other Languages Taylor Brown Hyper-V Integration
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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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If you use Windows Server Backup or any other VSS aware backup utility you should make sure and pick up KB956697 – Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V VSS writer is not used during a backup job because of corrupted or invalid virtual machine configuration files.
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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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Today is the launch for Microsoft Virtualization including Hyper-V. I will be attending parts of the launch event (unfortunately I have a few other commitments in Redmond so I can’t stay for the whole event). I will post any major news at
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The Microsoft marketing team has setup a Virtualization blog RSS aggregator at http://www.virtualizationfeed.com … They are syndicating the first part of every post related to Virtualization, Hyper-V, SCVMM etc… from ‘the most knowledgeable bloggers on
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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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On June 26th Hyper-V RTM (KB950050) was released to the Microsoft Download Center. As of this morning the same content is now on Windows Update as a recommended update to all Windows Server 2008 machines – yeah! Taylor
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