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 [...]
Getting to know Hyper-V
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Microsoft has released a document called Getting to Know Hyper-V: A Walkthrough from Initial Setup to Common Scenarios. This guide provides detailed step-by-step walkthroughs for testing Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008 R2 in a preproduction environment. You can use this guide to become familiar with Hyper-V and the process of creating and managing virtual machines. [...]
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 [...]
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Documentation
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009For IT professionals responsible for managing virtual infrastructures, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008—a member of the System Center family of system management products—provides a straightforward and cost-effective solution for unified management of physical and virtual machines, Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) for dynamic and responsive management of virtual infrastructure, consolidation of underutilized physical [...]
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