Hello, I am glad to announce the RTM release of the Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions for Hyper-V.  The main purpose of this custom Management Pack for Hyper-V is to extend the official Management Pack and provide performance monitoring. Note that...

  2011 is finishing and I am really happy to see how Microsoft Virtualization is being consolidated and adopted by thousands of customers around the globe. 2012 promise to be an exciting year with the launch of Windows Sever 8 and SCVMM 2012 so let...

  Hello virt community, Today I am happy to announce that a great resource was born few days ago. The World Wide Virtualization PFE team decided to share experiencies and best practices to the Virtualization Community. It’s going to be a nice resource...

On this last post I am going to talk about what counters should be used to monitor the Network performance of your Virtual Machines, your Virtual Switches and your Physical Network Adapters . Performance monitor is a very powerful tool that is included...

  Once you have configured each feature on your Hyper-V Servers maybe you are wondering how they interact with each other. In the following table you are going to see how each feature interacts with others under Windows Server 2008 R2. As I already...

  One network optimization that we can configure on Hyper-V are the Jumbo Frames. Although we can take benefit of Jumbo Frames on different scenarios the most common use is to optimize iSCSI network traffic. This traffic is often used to connect...

  In this post you are going to find what settings you need to configure to enable RSS. Receive Side Scaling (RSS) enables concurrent processing of received packets from one network adapter by different CPUs on a system. At boot time, Windows Server...

  Continuing the Networking Series with Virtual Machine Queues. In this table you will find what registry keys and settings must be configured to make it work. Again, remember that you can use this script to validate these settings . Virtual Machine...

I am still working on this series part. Sorry for the inconvenience. You still can find the script to analyze the Hyper-V Networking Optimizations here

  Hello again and happy 2011. Coming back from holidays I’ve decided to contribute to the community with one useful Powershell script to parse Hyper-V BPA reports on HTML. You can run it with Powershell on Full or Server Core. Don’t forget to run...

  Would you want to know what version of Hyper-V are you running right now? This is a table to make a fast relationship between your current VMBUS.SYS version and the corresponding Hyper-V level. Remember to upgrade the ICs of your VMs after applying...

  Yesterday the Hyper-V Product Team announced a handy Hyper-V Rollup update which includes the fix for 3 issues. This update will help us to simplify our hosts maintenance tasks. On the same KB you will find individual references to each fix and...

  As you already know, the product group announced the Dynamic Memory feature for Hyper-V with the SP1 release. Here you will find several links with information about how the new functionality works. Part 1: Dynamic Memory announcement . This blog...

During my last 2 years working with Hyper-V I’ve done hundred of searches on the web looking for any kind of information about Networking, Storage, Clustering, server core…. Finally I’ve decided to compile my favorites on one place starting with the Hyper...

Hello again, Today I am starting to share with you some presentations that I’ve done during the last year for our Spanish customers. The presentations are in Spanish but feel free to contact me if you need a translated version. P2V with SCVMM presentation...

Recently i found several customers that are running Hyper-V R2 under AMD Family 10h processors and they experienced server reboots on the source host that start the migration. There isn’t any information on the event viewer or any dump cause the root...

At the end of April, the product team announced another tool to make our life easier when doing diagnostics for Hyper-V R2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977238 After the package installation you will find on Server Manager (Hyper-V Section) the BPA...

Yesterday was published a useful tool for common administration task on Server Core. The name of the tool is CoreConfigurator and is the second version of the tool with more features and improved UI. You can download it for free from codeplex http://www...

If you are trying to monitor Hyper-V performance and your servers are Server Core you have many options to capture data. The most easiest way is to use perfmon remotely and define a counter set with Hyper-V related counters.Unfortunately sometimes it...

One important point to guarantee a good performance of our virtual machines, is to validate that they have installed the lastest version of the “Integration Components”. If we must validate the version in one or two machines we can do it checking the...

Bueno, para aquellos que dispongan de una subscripción de Technet o de MSDN ya pueden descargarse la versión final del Service Pack 2 para Windows Server 2008 y Windows VISTA. Podréis encontrarlo en el siguente enlace y podréis evitaros tener que instalar...

  In order to avoid known problems during Hyper-V deployments I really encourage you to apply these updates to your environments Hyper-V V1 Hotfixes list http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd430893.aspx Hyper-V R2 Hotfixes list http://technet...

Good for all those who visit my blog for the first time. This is my christening on blogging with the simple aim of sharing a little knowledge and opinion about something that for years attracted my attention. Virtualization. For reasons of fate I am immersed...