How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010?
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Protecting virtual machines is also essential as protecting physical machines. You can use System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) to achieve that, but there is a small problem. System administrators can protect an entire Hyper-V host using the DPM Management Console, but the protection group has to be modified manually to include the new [...]
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 [...]
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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Hyper-V Monitor Gadget
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Do you want to monitor your Hyper-V server whenever you work at your workstation? Do you want to immediately see when server or virtual machine goes down? There is a nice gadget for Windows Vista / Windows 7, which can help you. It’s called Hyper-V Monitor, and it displays all necessary information from your [...]
How Do I: Backup Hyper-V with Windows Server Backup?
Monday, November 30th, 2009With 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
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 [...]
VIDEO: Hyper-V Virtual Networks Overview
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009As 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 Windows 7 VHD
Monday, October 19th, 2009Running virtual machine is great way to test new operating system. Although you can download free Windows 7 Enterprise 90-day trial and install it in Hyper-V virtual machine, there is even better solution: download free Windows 7 90-day evaluation VHD, attach it to Hyper-V virtual machine and avoid the need to install operating system. Free [...]
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