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Microsoft released Windows Server 2012 R2 in October of last year. And ever since release it has been our flagship datacenter operating system, also known as Cloud OS. Like many of you I use Windows Server 2012 R2 for building virtual infrastructure. A lot of times we want to test certain scenarios and...

Many customers begin their virtualization journeys’ by virtualizing the low intensity, less critical workloads, such as File & Print Servers, or Web Servers, but as customer confidence in virtualization grows, customers need to understand the impact of virtualization, from a performance, scalability...

Using or looking at Hyper-V for your workloads? Learn how the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual access/distributed switch can help simplify your Hyper-V virtual environment through a non-disruptive operational model, policy based provisioning, and a strong services ecosystem. You will learn about the Cisco Nexus...

Welcome to the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal (VMMSSP) 2.0 SP1 Beta program! As a Beta program member you have the opportunity to test drive the next version of VMMSSP—version 2.0 SP1! This new version includes some exciting new feature enhancements to help simplify your move...

FOR MORE INFORMATION READ THE FOLLOWING BLOG BY “BUILDING WINDOWS 8” http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/07/bringing-hyper-v-to-windows-8.aspx PS: DO WATCH THE VIDEO ON THE BLOG POST

This guide describes the considerations you should take into account when planning to deploy the Hyper-V™ technology, and provides installation and configuration details that will help you deploy Hyper-V. This guide provides Requirements, installation, and configuration information for Hyper-V. About...

Microsoft released the the documents required to test out the Live Migration using Windows Server 2008 R2.   Hyper-V Live Migration Overview & Architecture With Hyper-V™ live migration, you can move running VMs from one Hyper-V™ physical host to another without any disruption of service or perceived...

First of all in order to manage the Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 based server from Windows 7 RTM, you need to download and install Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7. You can get it from my previous blog post http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj/archive/2009/08/16/remote-server...

The Hardware-assisted virtualization (HAV) detection tool checks if the computer processor supports HAV and if this setting is enabled. Windows Virtual PC requires processors capable of hardware-assisted virtualization with AMD-V™, Intel® VT or VIA® VT turned on in the BIOS. The HAV detection tool helps...

Next Tuesday, December 6 th from 8am-11am PST, we are offering a free training: Failover Clustering with Hyper-V: Designing a Highly-Available Infrastructure for the Private Cloud Registration is free of charge! Date and time : December 6, 2011 | 8am-11am PDT | Live online training Session Details Join...

Get the all new Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Component Architecture posters. Provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2012 R2 and focuses on Generation 2 virtual machines, Hyper-V with virtual hard disk sharing, online virtual hard disk resizing, storage...

This will be an "Ask the Expert" Session around Private Cloud & Windows Azure. In this session Microsoft expert speakers will answer all your questions around setting up your own Private Cloud Infrastructure using Hyper-V & System Center Management Tools. Also, we will cover how an...

Hyper-V™ is a key feature in Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that you can use to consolidate different server roles onto a single physical computer. Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based server technology that is optimized to provide virtualization of operating systems. Hyper-V supports a large...

As you are all aware Hyper-V is Microsoft’s Virtualization platform and we use VHD as the file format for installing operating systems. VHD stands for Virtual Hard Disk. Windows Server 2012 features new file format known as VHDX. You can read more about it over here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us...

Hello, In my previous post i.e. Windows 7: Boot from VHD First Impression: Part 1 we seen creating and attaching the VHDs. Using the Disk Management or Diskpart utility we can attach the existing VHDs. In this part we will actually cover the boot from VHD feature. We will cover the different ways by...

I am sharing some of the resources that I had demonstrated during my session in Green-Hyper Virtualization session. Green-Hyper: Server energy savings calculator from http://www.hyper-green.com Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit for energy efficient computing http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us...

A set of drivers that enable synthetic device support in supported Linux virtual machines under Hyper-V. Overview When installed in a supported Linux virtual machine running on Hyper-V, the Linux Integration Components provide. Driver support: Linux Integration Services supports the network controller...

Hello, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is stand-alone product for virtualization for better utilization of your hardware reducing cost. Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 comes with lot of new features like Live Migration, Expanded Processor and Memory support for host machines. Along the ways single solution...

Thank you all for attending this webcast. I hope you’ll enjoyed it. Resources for Datacenter Virtualization You can get the recorded webcast over here Click on Register and it will give you download option from Live Meeting Site. Evaluation Software Download Windows Server 2008 R2 Evaluation http://www...

Hello IT Professionals, After long time I decided to write some technical articles for the Non-Microsoft sites. Often we write/discuss a lot in the Microsoft hosted forums. Now that I have got an opportunity to write technical articles, I decided to start covering Windows Server Technologies along with...

Yes, this is absolutely right. Microsoft just made available Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 for download publicly & it is completely supported in production environment. Read more before you deploy this in your production environment… The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 provides storage...

We are very excited to welcome you to the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Beta Program and appreciate your interest and participation in the program. Click here to download the solution accelerator. If you have additional questions or feedback about the solution accelerator, please send an email...

First of all let’s start with what is NIC teaming? NIC teaming means grouping several physical NICs into a single logical NIC. NIC teaming enhances fault tolerance by increasing availability of a server’s network connection. Multiple network paths let you balance network traffic for better performance...

This whitepaper demonstrates why organizations should choose Microsoft® Hyper-V™ as their hypervisor when designing and implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution. Choosing a hypervisor for deploying a VDI solution involves a number of important considerations, each of which can be...

This guide provides detailed step-by-step walkthroughs for testing Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008 R2 in a preproduction environment. This guide provides detailed step-by-step walkthroughs for testing Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008 R2 in a preproduction environment. You can use this guide to become...