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 [...]
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 .
[VIDEO] How to install Hyper-V Server 2008?
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010It seems I forgot to post news and tutorials about Hyper-V Server 2008 . For those who don’t know, Hyper-V Server 2008 is a standalone “operating system” with only one role available – Hyper-V. It is free, lightweight and great solution for your virtual environment. It has no GUI, so you have to create and [...]
Install SUSE Linux on Hyper-V
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Microsoft officially supports SUSE Linux as a guest machine. You can install it and even get a official support from Microsoft if you have some problems. There are also Linux integration components available to download, which can help you enhance your experience using Linux as a guest machine. Ever wondered how the installation process looks [...]
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 [...]
VIDEO: Virtualization Features of Essentials 2010
Friday, January 22nd, 2010As I informed you yesterday, System Center Essentials 2010 RC is available to download and test. Essentials 2010 is designed for organizations with up to 50 servers and 500 client computers. Let’s see how it can help us with virtualization. SCE 2010 leverage technology from SCVMM, however by integrating it into a single console and [...]
Video: Back up Hyper-V with System Center Data Protection Manager
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009With 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. Length: [...]
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 Server [...]
How Do I: Create a cluster on Hyper-V?
Monday, November 30th, 2009Not 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, 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 [...]