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There are a few areas which catch the us off guard when we plan to create a test environment. If you are going to repurpose hardware make sure you review this Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 information to make sure you have the required hardware and...
Well I am deep into using Hyper-V R2 and I have probably forgotten a dozen things that caught me off guard at the beginning. I have resolved to just blog about them as they come up rather that put them in order of importance. In order for Hyper-V 2008...
In the following post I will describe three methods for upgrading from Windows Server R2 from Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V. The methods described here are covered in MS Support KB 957256 . After listing the methods I will describe why I prefer one...
Have you seen this? WOW. Native support for VHD disks offers huge potential. Think about creating Dual and Tripple boot systems with everything containted in one file per OS. Think about Back up to VHD... think about mounting VHDs for native read write...
Issac Roybal is the Product Manager for Hyper-V and spent a few minutes discussing some very late breaking features in Hyper-V coming with the Windows Server 2008 R2 RC release including changes to the number of supported cores as well as an extremely...
Hyper-V Meta data is stored in the following folder: %SYSTEMDRIVE%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines\ If you open the directory you will see Symlinks to your virtual machine files. If ever the Hyper-V console loses track of your Virtual...
Save Space on Primary and Backup Storage. Hyper-V 2008 R2 boasts 87% of native drive system performance. They are separating out the data that is fixed from the information that changes by creating a new location for transitional data. The size of this...
The Virtualization team is reporting 87% of native performance when using Dynamically expanding drives. A number of MVPs were emailing today about best practices for High Availability using Hyper-V and Clustered Shared Volumes. A great topics in and of...