I ask this question to a customer who ask me about how Windows Server 2008 can help them achieve higher availability for their data. Have you ever had some weird disk or system behavior on your system volume, discovered or believed it was disk corruption...

If you are getting VMM is unable to complete the request. The connection to the agent <Agent Managed Host> was lost. Ensure that the WS-Management service and the agent are installed and running and that a firewall is not blocking HTTP traffic....

Recently in my discussions with customers regarding virtualisation the topic of Site Recovery is becoming very popular. I thought it would be worthwhile listing some the resources available to help you understand how Microsoft virtualisation solutions...

The past few days there has been an very robust discussion through blogs and videos about how VMware is spreading FUD about Hyper-V. Refer to Day 1 - http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/05/09/hyper-v-winning-daily-vmware-fud-reaching...

Microsoft has updated the support policy for running SQL server in a virtual machine that has been clustered. Refer to Support policy for Microsoft SQL Server products that are running in a hardware virtualization environment Technorati Tags: Hyper-V...

Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) enables IT administrators to remotely manage roles and features in Windows Server 2008 from a computer running Windows Vista with SP1. It includes support for remote management of computers running either...

Windows Server 2008 Improvements that Benefit Exchange Windows Server 2008 includes a number of improvements and enhancements that can directly benefit servers running Exchange 2007 SP1. There are many benefits to running Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows...

Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows Server 2008, has now released to manufacturing (RTM) and is available for deployment into production environments. A beta of Hyper-V was included with Windows Server 2008 and this update provides the final release. ...

|| श्री || This is my first blog entry and I am using Windows Live Writer to make this entry. As a first time user of any kind of Blog editor I am really excited to find out how easy it was to setup Windows Live Writer to edit the blog entries. For details...

Technorati Tags: Windows Server 2008 , Overview , Web , Virtualization , Foundation , Infrastrcuture , Security By now you have either heard or read something somewhere that Microsoft is about to release a new Serve operating System. The new server operating...

At the time of writing this blog entry here is a list of Microsoft applications Technorati Tags: Windows , Server , 2008 , Application , Support that work on Windows Server 2008 and indicative timeline for when new application will be supported on Windows...

Getting Started Technorati Tags: Data Protection , DPM , System Center The Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 Getting Started Guide provides quick access to tasks required to protect and recover your data, and includes a Quick Start Guide that provides...

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an integrated platform with tools and guidance that make it easier for you to assess your current IT infrastructure and determine the right Microsoft technologies for your IT needs. It offers easy...

Refer to http://blogs.technet.com/chengw/archive/2008/05/21/scvmm-2008-performance-resource-optimization-pro.aspx This is a great introduction to SCVMM 2008 PRO by Cheng Wei.

Microsoft supports Exchange Server 2007 in production on hardware virtualisation software only when all the following conditions are true: The hardware virtualisation software is Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, or...

Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) version 4.5 has been released. Formerly known as SoftGrid, App-V 4.5 is the first Microsoft-branded release of the product. It includes new capabilities designed to help IT support large-scale virtualisation...

There is a lot of information regards Hyper-V and storage options that is scattred in blog post. I aim to find this information and collect it here in this post   Storage options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive...

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 provides a management solution for the virtualized data center that helps enable centralized management of IT infrastructure, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization...

There is a lot of confusion regards what hardware is required to run Hyper-V 1. Official Hyper-V system requirements are: Hyper-V requires specific hardware. You can identify systems that support the x64 architecture and Hyper-V by searching the Windows...

Enabling Test Automation Using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V With Hyper-V, you can decrease your software test cycles, improve your test coverage, and provide testers and developers a safe, scalable test bed for applications. In this session we introduce...

If you are in the midst of testing and deploying Virtual machines using the VHD file format on Hyper-V and want the best performance from a I/O performance check out this post by Tim Litton http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance/archive/2008/09...

There is quite a lot of documentation ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794762.aspx ) and blogs on how to get the best peformance from Hyper-V. Here are some of my thoughts. 1. Disk:   allow separate disks for the parent partition (ie...

Online publications Hyper-V's low cost helps Microsoft weaken VMware's grip on server virtualization: Microsoft has aggressively discounted Hyper-V to grab market share Microsoft narrows gap with VMware Hyper-V makes good showing in first months availability...

1. Measuring Performance on Hyper-V While most of the principles of analysing performance of a guest operating system installed on a Hyper-V virtual machine performance are the same as analysing the performance of an operating system installed on a physical...

Refer to http://blogs.technet.com/chengw/archive/2008/09/08/install-and-uninstall-vmm-agent-on-windows-2008-server-core.aspx   Technorati Tags: SCVMM 2008 , Hyper-V , Server Core , Virtualisation , Management