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    Video: Back up Hyper-V with System Center Data Protection Manager

    Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

    With virtualized workloads, data backup and recovery becomes even more critical. In this video Mark Wilson takes a look at using System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1 to back up a Hyper-V host. In one of my previous posts, I shared a video showing you how to backup Hyper-V with Windows Server Backup.
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    How Do I: Backup Hyper-V with Windows Server Backup?

    Monday, November 30th, 2009

    With virtualized workloads, data backup and recovery becomes even more critical. Whilst large companies can use products such as System Center Data Protection Manager to back up multiple servers, that may not always be appropriate for and, in this video, Mark Wilson takes a look at backing up a Hyper-V deployment using the Windows [...]

    How Do I: Create a cluster on Hyper-V?

    Monday, November 30th, 2009

    Not all virtualization deployments run on huge farms of clustered servers. In this video, Mark Wilson shows how to create a failover cluster for high availability with both nodes running virtualized on Hyper-V.
    Length: 18 minutes 49 seconds

    VIDEO: Hyper-V Virtual Networks Overview

    Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

    As me and some of my readers noticed, lately I write a lot (or too much) about Windows 7. As this blog is about Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft virtualization, let’s get back on the track. I’ve just found nice video which has been made by Janique Carbone, where she describes Hyper-V virtual networks. In [...]

    Free Online Self Paced Training for Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V

    Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

    Just a short information copied from Microsoft Virtualization User Group blog: Citrix is organizing free online self paced training for Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V. In this course, learners will be introduced to Citrix Essentials™ for Hyper-V™ and gain the knowledge needed to perform basic installation and configuration tasks. Through online simulations, students will install [...]

    How to use Virtual IQ to manage Hyper-V environments?

    Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

    It was few months ago when I wrote one post about Virtual IQ, program that helps you monitor virtual machines (Hyper-V, VMWare, Citrix, Oracle). I decided to test it. I have only one laptop, I have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on it, and I wanted to install Virtual IQ on it to monitor [...]

    How to create new Hyper-V virtual machine?

    Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

    Let me show you how to add new Windows Server 2008 R2 as a guest operating system on top of Hyper-V 2.0, which is part of the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. So, I have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on my machine, I have Hyper-V role installed and enabled (How to install role [...]

    7 Awesome Things You Can Do With Hyper-V

    Monday, July 27th, 2009

    Few days ago I found interesting article published on Windows Server Blog by Train Signal, about 7 awesome things you can do with Hyper-V. Here is the short list, for full descriptions visit Windows Server Blog.

    Consolidate Servers — Decrease Your Hardware Footprint
    Save Energy, Save Money!
    Run Linux/Unix OS on Microsoft Servers
    Create Multiple [...]

    Hyper-V Security Guide

    Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

    I have just found this news on Microsoft Virtualization User Group UK blog. It’s about Hyper-V Security Guide at TechNet, document that 41 pages covering all security problems you should consider when deploying Hyper-V in your environment. I think this document is must-read for every system administrator who want’s to deploy Hyper-V, so check [...]

    Free Hyper-V training

    Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

    I just wanted to share this short information with you: Microsoft is offering free Hyper-V training! Here is the copy-paste of the post found on Microsoft virtualization user group blog:
    Microsoft is offering some free Hyper-V training. You will need to enter a specific access code 9350-Y2W6-3676 and sign in with your Live ID.  The course [...]

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