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USB in Hyper-V Child?
Published 16 July 8 5:24 PM | Charlie Russel
It's still early days yet, but I think I've found a simple and very satisfactory solution to the problem of no USB support in Hyper-V. FabulaTech's USB Over Network product is simple to install - you install the Server side of it on whatever...
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Hyper-V RTM Is Here
Published 26 June 8 11:22 AM | Charlie Russel
The Hyper-V RTM is here, and should be downloadable today, according to this TechNet blog . As anyone who reads this blog knows, I'm a big fan of Hyper-V and I'm really glad to see it RTM. This may be a MS v1.0, but it's a solid product that...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Published 30 April 8 9:42 AM | Charlie Russel
SCVMM 2007 is Microsoft's outstanding product for managing multiple Virtual Server instances across your enterprise. Frankly, I loved it. It made dealing with VS so much easier, and allowed me to build a library of solutions that I could quickly and...
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Connecting to Remote VMs with Hyper-V RC0
Published 27 April 8 11:23 AM | Charlie Russel
One of the changes in Hyper-V RC0 is that you can no longer use a mouse in a remote RDP session until you have the Integration Components installed into the VM. Well, that's a royal pain if you don't happen to be sitting at the console of your...
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Hyper-V RC0 and Integration Components Workaround
Published 31 March 8 7:5 AM | Charlie Russel
If you've upgraded to RC0 of Hyper-V, you can run into a problem creating a new VM that is based on Server 2008 RTM, since the Integration Components (IC's) are out of sync. This means you won't have the drivers for the new synthetic NIC,...
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Hyper-V Release Candidate Released
Published 19 March 8 7:13 AM | Charlie Russel
For those of you testing or using Hyper-V as your virtualization solution, the good news is that they appear to be on track for a final release by the end of the summer. Microsoft has just announced the release of the Hyper-V RC. This update adds Vista...
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Hyper-V on Server Core
Published 16 January 8 5:41 PM | Charlie Russel
While I'm talking about Hyper-V and Server 2008, let me thank Ben Armstrong for a great post on how to get Hyper-V setup and configured on Server Core. Of course, as I just posted , I needed a bit of Terminal Server RemoteApps help to get it all working...
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Windows Server 2008 RemoteApps is COOL
Published 16 January 8 5:24 PM | Charlie Russel
Originally known as "TS Rail", the RemoteApps feature of Windows Server 2008 makes Terminal Servers an absolute essential on everyone's network. There is no way I won't have a TS running full time from here on out, and RemoteApps is...
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Hyper-V on HP ProLiant ML 350
Published 13 December 7 9:39 AM | Charlie Russel
I've been running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization for a while now. It has become my main virtualization environment. I've got 6 main VMs running on the HP ML350 G5 ProLiant server and another dozen or so that I bring up or down as needed...
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EqualLogic SAN (Part 2)
Published 14 October 7 10:9 AM | Charlie Russel
So, in Part 1 I talked about the whole process of borrowing and setting up my EqualLogic PS3800XV SAN. Now that I've got it powered up, I needed to add IP addresses for it, and connect to it. Setting IP addresses is straightforward - you can let DHCP...
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EqualLogic SAN (Part 1)
Published 8 October 7 1:21 AM | Charlie Russel
In order to write about Storage Area Networks (SANs), you really need to have access to a SAN. Now if I had an unlimited budget, I'd happily have set up a SAN here in my office, if only for the simplicity and the ability to centralize storage across...
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WSv (Viridian) Now Available!
Published 25 September 7 10:40 PM | Charlie Russel
The Preview Release ("pre-beta" quality) of Windows Server Virtualization (WSv) is now available as part of Windows Server 2008 RC0. See John Howard's Blog for details on installing the Virtualization Role in RC0 (US English ONLY at this...
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Acronis True Image Enterprise
Published 2 July 7 6:16 AM | Charlie Russel
As some of you know, I've been fighting to live with Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Virtual Server - without much success, I might add. I strongly suspect it's related to networking, but whatever the cause, it's been a disaster here. After losing...
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VMRCPlus
Published 1 July 7 3:1 PM | Charlie Russel
For any of you running Virtual Server as your virtualization solution (and I am certainly in that camp for all except 64-bit guests), here's a great tool that gives you everything that VMRC should be, but isn't - VMRCPlus . Even if you're...
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HP ProLiant ML350 G5 Server Experiences (part 3)
Published 23 June 7 10:3 PM | Charlie Russel
OK, I've been living with this HP server for about 3 months now. I'm still loving it - it's stable, quiet, and powerful. But I've finally decided I should have bumped up the processors a bit. I've got a pair of 5130 Xeon processors...
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More bad news on MS Virtualization
Published 11 May 7 12:34 AM | Charlie Russel
More details from Mike Neil at: Windows Server Blog about the features that won't be in Viridian. These include no hot add of resources (storage, networking, memory, and processor), no live migration, and a limit of 16 logical processors (cores)....
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Virtualization Delays from Microsoft
Published 16 April 7 1:27 AM | Charlie Russel
Mike Neil, the General Manager for Virtualization at Microsoft has posted an updated schedule for the release of the Viridian beta and the final release of Virtual Server R2 SP1. Both are delayed into the second half of this year. I have to say, I'm unhappy...
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