Microsoft virtualization whitepapers
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011Two virtualization whitepapers have been recently published to introduce Hyper-V and Microsoft desktop virtualization. These whitepapers will be useful to everyone with only basic knowledge of virtualization and consider using it in their environment to reduce costs and improve business agility. Whitepaper #1: Everything you need to know about implementing Hyper-V. Aidan Finn provides [...]
Linux Integration Services 3.1 for Hyper-V
Thursday, July 28th, 2011Microsoft has released version 3.1. of the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V. Linux Integration Services are a set of drivers that enable synthetic device support in supported Linux virtual machines under Hyper-V. The supported operating systems for 3.1 are Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0 and 6.1 x86 and x64 (Up to 4 vCPU) and [...]
Windows Server 8 sneak peek
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011At the 2011 Microsoft worldwide partner conference, Jeff Woolsey showed a first sneak peek of the Windows Server codename “8”. As he said, Windows Server 8 will bring us a dozen of new features, but he demoed two, both connected with Hyper-V. Virtual machines with more than 16 logical processors Hyper-V replica, which will allow [...]
Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows 8!!!
Monday, June 20th, 2011Leaked Windows 8 builds revealed one new feature: Hyper-V 3.0! Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows 8 will be installed via Control panel, offering a dozen new features.
Microsoft adds support for the CentOS on Hyper-V
Monday, May 16th, 2011As a part of its interoperability efforts, Microsoft announced it will add support for the CentOS on Hyper-V. CentOS, operating system used mostly in hosting environment, will now be supported by Microsoft and integration components will be available for the installation. As I know, so far hosting companies have been using virtualized CentOS, but probably [...]
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 now available
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011As reported on Techycentral, first service pack for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is now available to download. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 could be describer as a “operating system” with only one role – Hyper-V. It is free, lightweight and great solution for your virtual environment. It has no GUI, so you have to [...]
Always read prerequisites
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011Always read prerequisites. Period. I will be speaking at the Microsoft Network conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina this Thursday about Dynamic memory. I already spoke twice about DM, and I have a slide explaining prerequisites for the guest operating system, among which are the Enterprise or Ultimate version of Vista/Windows7. I know that, and I [...]
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 is RTM!
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011After a couple of months of intensive testing, Microsoft finally announced SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM! I already wrote a couple of posts about Dynamic memory, it’s architecture and a need for it, and I also gave two presentations about it. I tested it for a couple of times, and it proved to [...]
Using virtualization in a hosting environment part 1
Thursday, November 18th, 2010I think we can all agree upon a fact that virtualization has its "perks": hardware consolidation, better ROI, more density "packed" server, lower expenses on servers, power and link lines. But the fact that I mind the most, is that rarely someone truly points out the bad sides of virtualization. Biggest problem with any virtualization [...]
How Do I: Use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit to identify servers suitable for virtualization with Hyper-V?
Thursday, October 28th, 2010Here is one more useful video from TechNet. Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit is a valuable resource which can help you identify server suitable for virtualization with Hyper-V, and this video shows you how to do it. It’s very short (06:20 minutes), so it shouldn’t be a problem to watch it .
« Previous Entries