Good news this morning.... The virtualization team is pleased to announce the public beta release of the Hyper-V WMI interfaces . Hyper-V WMI APIs . Hyper-V uses WMI APIs (similar to the Virtual Server COM API) to create, manage, monitor, configure virtual...

Getting back to how to use SCVMM, I'll now walk you through one of the ways to create a Virtual Machine (VM) on a host - I'll use one the simplest ways, there are lots of other options. BTW, Are those of you not on the SCVMM beta finding this series...

Welcome to Part 6 - this is the penultimate instalment... 8. Legacy hardware – modem cards, fax boards Basically there is simple advise here, make sure you identify attached hardware on the servers you intend to consolidate (or virtualise) during...

Dugie and others have posted about this in the past, now Conrad has added some great detail, especially leveraging native Microsoft tools (some still in beta). Basically you have a choice of: Method 1 . Using WAIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit)...

If you encounter this error (and haven't seen the workaround on other blogs), please make sure you have these updates installed on the Hyper-V hosts: Hyper-V QFE ( KB956589 ) BITS QFE ( KB956774 )   Regards, Clive Technorati Tags: SCVMM 2008

Some of you may remember a free tool that you could use to configure Windows Server 2008 core (basically a simple GUI that allowed you to setup the system), unfortunately this tool was removed from the web . This *new* tool is uncomplied code (Script...

If you're a Virtual Server user in the UK , and if you're a TDM (Technical Decision Maker), Architect or even a CTO (with the proliferation of job titles these days I'll let you make up your own mind as to whe ther your title is equivalent to these suggestions...

Summary To date we have covered the following: Part 1: Initial Setup Part 2: Creation of a host group Part 3: Possible host and VM status Part 4: Adding a host into SCVMM Part 5: More state information and filtering lists Part...

UPDATE: Changed post title from "Day1" to "Part1"... System Center Virtual Machine Manager (Beta1) was made avialble on http://connect.microsoft.com site. For more information (assuming you haven't downloaded it yourself) can be found here and here...

Harold has just started a great thread which I'm sure will get a load of comments. From my perspective I would buy x64 today (in fact I have done at home) however the full software stack isn't always available - yet! I think it's inevitable that x64 ...

Sorry for the lack of posts in the last few weeks ( holiday season!), hopefully I will start to post regularly again from now on. I presented on clustering today which I enjoyed doing (and I hope the audience liked it), as usual I was asked for links...

One of the great SCVMM features is the ability to simply, create a "Host Group" under the "Managed Computers" object. In this example I have created two sub groups, the one I'll detail here is UK, I could also create child groups under these parents....

Not the best kept secret I know (and so do you all by now), but the press release is here , In summary, Virtual Server 2005 R2 will become a free download, in effect there is now only the Enterprise edition, so 1-32 CPU's are supported on the host...

If you go to https://connect.microsoft.com the update that allows SCVMM to work with Hyper-V RC1 is now available Update for SCVMM 2008 Beta - (You can access this from the downloads page). Install this update to enable Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta...

I'll admit I just assumed we didn't have a forum for Virtualization hosted on Microsoft.com, but actually the Technet guys do (thanks!). So if you're as surprised as me and are interested, head over to the Windows Server Virtualization forum. There is...

As you may of heard, WSv has had a name change to Hyper-V Here are a few links: http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2007/11/12/windows-server-2008-product-lineup-and-hyper-v.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/nov07/11-12HyperVPR...

Dugie kindly pushed out some great stats last week (which I forgot to blog about at the time...it's been a busy two weeks!). Anyway if you want to take a look at some numbers Microsoft IT made available, Andrew's post has them. I hope we get the numbers...

Lee emailed me to ask: I've been interested in trying out some of the Microsoft Virtualization software but I'm somewhat confused by the product and wonder if you can set the record for me. I have setup a test server running W2003 Server with Virtual...

Windows 2003 Storage Server R2 is now available (from OEMs), completing the line-up of the Operating Systems that will run R2 (at least for now). We also announced the availability of software-enabled Storage Area Network (SAN) boot of Microsoft Windows...

We have made available the new MOM pack for Windows Server 2003 R2, you can download it here . The features are: Virtual Server • Monitors Virtual Server service availability • Detects configuration errors • Detects critical error conditions...

Ivan, sent me this question Is it possible to have special channel between virtual machines? For example, I have installed MSFT Virtual Server R2 and 2 virtual machines. If one program in one virtual machine is trying to access some file on it's virtual...

Ben kindly created a Virtualization related summary of WinHEC 2006, here are the deatils: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Virtualization ------------------------------------------------...

The following screen grab shows a single running Virtual Server host machine in the “Infrastructure Hosts” group. I've circled the state information which shows "responding", meaning that the server that's running Virtual Server 2005 R2 is available,...

Host Properties For each host, that you can select in the GUI, right-click to look at the properties (it's actually called "Manage Properties" in the drop down). The first screen you come to lists the host name, Domain and a description, as well...

As you should be aware SCVMM like Exchange 2007 is based on PowerShell (previously known as "Monad"). This enables you to perform every action that the GUI does from the command line and in some cases more. PowerShell is a pre-requisite for SCVMM and...