Windows Virtualization Team Blog

XenDesktop 7 Supports Windows Server 2012

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:00 GMT

We are excited to see the release of XenDesktop 7 and support our partner Citrix. XenDesktop 7 brings together both XenApp and XenDesktop functionality into a common release and now brings support for Windows Server 2012. XenDesktop can easily be deployed...(read more)

Hyper-V Replica Capacity Planner

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:06:35 GMT

Customers have frequently asked us for capacity planning guidance before deploying Hyper-V Replica – e.g.: “How much network bandwidth is required between the primary and replica site”, “How much storage is required on the primary and replica site”, Read...(read more)

Resynchronization of virtual machines in Hyper-V Replica

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:27:00 GMT

What is resynchronization and why is it needed? Hyper-V Replica provides protection to VMs by tracking and replicating changes to the virtual hard disks (VHDs) of the VM. Hyper-V Replica runs 24 hours, 365 days in a year; for any VM that has been enabled...(read more)

How to install integration services when the virtual machine is not running

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:34:00 GMT

We’ve been talking to a lot of people about deploying integration services (integration components) lately. As it turns out, they’re pretty easy to patch offline with existing Hyper-V tools. First, why would you update integration services...(read more)

Updates for Hyper-V

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:20:35 GMT

A new article has appeared on the TechNet Wiki that provides a complete list of updates for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15576.hyper-v-update-list-for-windows-server-2012.aspx I am really happy...(read more)

Hyper-V Replica Certificate Based Authentication - makecert

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:01:38 GMT

We have had a number of queries on how to enable replication using certificates created from makecert. Though the Understanding and Troubleshooting guide for Hyper-V Replica discusses this aspect, I am posting a separate article on this. The below steps...(read more)

Hyper-V Replica - Name Resolution of Internationalized Server/Domain names

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:05:00 GMT

In a mixed language environment where the server name or domain name contains international characters, you might encounter an error at the time of enabling replication. The event viewer messages will tell you that “Hyper-V failed to enable replication...(read more)

Multi-tenant disaster recover solution using Windows Server 2012

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:54:00 GMT

Windows Server 2012 introduces fundamental improvements that make it a cloud-ready operating system. The capabilities provide a flexible and scalable solution which opens up a wide range of opportunities for hosting providers to build new cloud services...(read more)

Hyper-V Replica and Riverbed

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:51:00 GMT

As part of setting up a replication relationship, Hyper-V Replica transfers the initial VHDs over the network – depending on the size of the VHD, this operation can be time consuming and also impacts your production network. Once initial replication is...(read more)

Hyper-V Replica Runbooks

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:21:43 GMT

System Center 2012 Orchestrator provides a powerful workflow management solution which allows IT administrators to automate different tasks exposed by the platform. At the heart of the Orchestrator is a set of Runbooks which outline the sequence of activities...(read more)

Hyper-V Replica Kerberos Error

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:55:00 GMT

David is one of our Premier Field Engineers and he approached us with an interesting problem where the customer was encountering a Kerberos error when trying to create a replication relationship. On first glance, the setup looked very straight forward...(read more)

Migrate virtual machines from a VMware environment to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 using a free, simple, standalone tool

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:04:00 GMT

Windows Server 2012 is generally available for evaluation and purchase by all customers around the world. Additionally, there is great news for organizations that are looking for a way to migrate virtual machines hosted on VMware vSphere to the Hyper...(read more)

Introduction to Resource Metering

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:37:00 GMT

Hi, I’m Lalithra Fernando, a program manager on the Hyper-V team, working in various areas including clustering and authorization, as well as with our Hyper-V MVPs. In this post, I’ll be talking about resource metering, a new feature in Hyper...(read more)

Hyper-V Replica Powershell Series: Creating Hyper-V Replica Broker

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:09:00 GMT

We have seen multiple queries on the steps required to create the Hyper-V Replica Broker using Powershell, a previous post describes the process but adding more details on the end to end workflow. To create a Hyper-V Replica Broker in a DHCP environment...(read more)

Types of failover operations in Hyper-V Replica–Part III - Unplanned Failover

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:21:56 GMT

In the first two parts of this 3-part series, you learnt about Test Failover (TFO) and Planned Failover (PFO). In this closing part of the series, I will talk about unplanned failover and summarize the differences of these 3. 1. What is Unplanned Failover...(read more)