Some info about Dynamic Memory
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010I’m sure many of you already know that Dynamic Memory feature will be added into Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. With this feature, it will be possible for administrators to provide a range of RAM to a virtual machine. Hyper-V will then dynamically provide RAM to a virtual machine, based on virtual machine needs. [...]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux now supported with Hyper-V
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 Here is a official statement from Microsoft:
When we first released Hyper-V, support for Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was a shock to many customers. However, we’ve seen many customers in mixed environments virtualize SUSE Linux alongside their Windows virtual machines. We’ve received many requests for additional Linux distributions, and we worked closely with Red [...]
Hyper-V Live Migration
Monday, February 15th, 2010Live Migration is probably the most mentioned feature of the Hyper-V 2.0. It enables system administrators to move virtual machine from one server to another with no downtime. It is very useful if you have a huge network with many virtual and physical servers, and you need to move your virtual machines very often. [...]
Hyper-V Architecture
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Hyper-V, used for server virtualization in Windows Server 2008 R2 , is a microkernelized hypervizor. What it really means, I tried to explain in my post about microkernelized hypervizors, but here a video showing you more details about it. This short video has been recorded by Ben Armstrong, a.k.a. The Virtual PC Guy, Product [...]
Very small Hyper-V Manager
Thursday, January 28th, 2010There is a new, very simple and very easy to use Hyper-V Manager available to download and use for free. This tool has been written by Jerry Orman. It is not fully featured application, and should not (and can’t) be used for complex deployments and usage. It sits in a system tray, and enables [...]
How to manage Hyper-V from Windows XP?
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010If you still use Windows XP as a primary operating system, but your tasks include administrating Hyper-V environments, now you have a option to do it quite easy. Until now, you could use remote desktop, and it still works very well, but what if you want to use something like Hyper-V Remote Management Update [...]
Hyper-V Technical Information and Resources
Monday, December 14th, 2009Want to know more about Hyper-V? Want to know a lot about Hyper-V? Today I have to share a fantastic site with you. Hyper-V Technical Information and Resources is site with tons of materials for Hyper-V. Categories include: Install, Pre-Deployment Tools, Installation, Guidance, Deployment, Management, Workload Specific and Benchmarks. Just click on image provided to [...]
Boot Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 from USB Stick
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009If you for any reason need to install Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on USB stick, and boot it from there, now you have an easy option to do it. You could have done that before, but the process was quite complicated. Now that process is quite simple, thanks to Paul Despe, who made a [...]
Free physical to virtual tool Disk2vhd
Monday, November 16th, 2009Till now, if you wanted to convert your host operating system to virtual one, you had to use System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). It is great product, but it costs some money. But thanks to guys from Sysinternals, now you can create VHD file from your host operating system for free. They have [...]
How to use Virtual IQ to manage Hyper-V environments?
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009It 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 [...]
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