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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate! (Free Live Migration/HA Anyone?)

Virtualization Nation, The Virtualization team is pleased to announce the availability of the Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate for download. Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, our free standalone hypervisor, represents our continued commitment...

Published May 06 2009 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 4,499 views, 0 comments

HYPER-V QUICK MIGRATION & VMWARE LIVE MIGRATION PART 1...

Virtualization Nation, Generally speaking, I like to focus my blogs on what we’re doing at Microsoft regarding Hyper-V virtualization and pretend the rest of the Internet doesn't exist. However, there’s some buzz on the web about a topic that I feel...

Published Apr 09 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 2,889 views, 13 comments

How to fix: Hypervisor not running

This is a Hypervisor 101 case that keeps showing itself every so often the forums, mailing lists, etc: A message to the effect of “The Hypervisor is not running” when a user tries to launch a VM. Felipe Ayora, one of our awesome UA people, has created...

Published Sep 28 2009 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 2,695 views, 0 comments

Linux integration components for Hyper-V RC now available!

Virtualization Nation, The virtualization team is pleased to announce the release of the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V RC! These components provide compatibility with the recent Hyper-V RC release. You can obtain the Linux Integration Components...

Published Apr 01 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 2,499 views, 2 comments

Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts – Part 2

In part 1 we went over some basic scripts and tools for gathering information about running virtual machines. In part 2 I am going to cover two things, first basic VHD creation and second determining if Hyper-V WMI methods are succeeding or failing...

Published May 02 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 2,214 views, 0 comments

HYPER-V QUICK MIGRATION & VMWARE LIVE MIGRATION PART 2...

Virtualization Nation, Last week, I blogged about the importance of HA for unplanned host downtime. By the number of responses, this is clearly a hot topic. Today, I was going to discuss planned downtime, specifically, the differences between Quick Migration...

Published Apr 15 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 1,965 views, 1 comment

Working around the pass through limitations of the Hyper-V VSS Writer

While the Hyper-V VSS writer provides backup admins significant flexibility in their ability to back up VMs in an application-consistent way while running backup applications in the physical machine, it does have a prominent limitation when it comes to...

Published Mar 03 2009 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 1,555 views, 1 comment

Guest post: Hyper-V Performance Scales Well in 24-Core Dell Server

My name is Todd Muirhead and I’m one of the engineers behind Dell’s online community for IT professionals – DellTechCenter . This means that I get to work with all of the latest Dell servers and storage and provide technical guidance and assistance to...

Published Oct 15 2008 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 1,519 views, 0 comments

CentOS, OpenSUSE & More Linux Distros on Hyper-V R2!

Virtualization Nation, Just a couple of weeks ago, we surprised a few folks by contributing over 20,000 lines of source code to the Linux kernel under GPL V2 . Here are some quotes from the announcement: Our work in this area is all about providing more...

Published Aug 10 2009 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 1,516 views, 0 comments

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