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 Manager [...]
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 you [...]
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 for [...]
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 very [...]
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 created [...]
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 my [...]
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 available to download
Monday, August 17th, 2009I saw it this morning (an it is already downloaded ), Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is also available to download. Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is standalone hypervisor product, which enables you to create virtual environments for your virtual machines at no cost. It has improved security and stability, and with R2 edition it has ability [...]
7 Awesome Things You Can Do With Hyper-V
Monday, July 27th, 2009Few 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 Server 2008 R2 RTM
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Everyone is speaking about Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM, but almost no one wrote anything about Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 has also reached RTM version, as stated at Microsoft virtualization team blog. These R2 releases continue to highlight one of our core goals for Hyper-V. Simply: We believe [...]
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