Great article on Hyper-V Dynamic Memory in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 by Jaap Wesselius on Hyper-V.nu: http://bit.ly/fZaNSn

Repost: The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 SP1 are now available for download. These include the latest version of Hyper-V Manager which supports both Dynamic Memory (DM) and RemoteFX. Here's the link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b...

The Dutch Hyper-V.nu community mentioned on the official System Center Virtual Machine Manager team blog. Check out this System Center and Hyper-V Blog hosted by Microsoft MVPs Great work guys!

The next Hyper-V.nu meeting is scheduled for the 13th of December. The meeting will be held in Amstelveen at the HP office. Right now we have three sessions planned: Virtualizing a Sharepoint 2010 farm by Hans Vredevoort; Dynamic Memory Management in Windows 2008 R2 Sp1 by Jeff Wouters. Differences between...

This offers: Driver support for synthetic devices Fastpath Boot Support Timesync Integrated Shutdown Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP) Support Heartbeat Pluggable Time source For more information see “ Linux Integration Services v2.1 Now Available ” on the Windows Virtualization Team Blog.

The first version of Microsoft’s Datacenter Management and Virtualization Enablement Kit for System Integrators is now available. The datacenter kit contains resources for SI partners to build datacenter practices deploying Microsoft products. Materials are structured so partners can ramp up their consultants...

This is a free 450-page downloadable e-book offering from MS Press. The new version includes updates for Windows Server 2008 R2, Cloud Infrastructure, and more content around Desktop Virtualization. We’ve also added the best practice guidance for virtualizing Microsoft workloads – SQL, SharePoint and...

Finally we have a formal announcement! http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/10/07/microsoft-and-red-hat-complete-cooperative-technical-support.aspx

Interesting performance comparison report! Principled Technologies tested Harpertown and Nehalem servers running various Windows Server operating systems to show the benefits of processer and of operating system improvements on simulated customer workloads.  Windows Server 2008 R2 delivers over...

Since the 1st of July the Server Management Suite Licensing has changes. The biggest changes are that we have added a Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD). The Server Management Suite Datacenter provides rights to manage an unlimited number of operating system environments (OSEs) on a single physical...

  REDMOND, Wash., July 20, 2009 — Today, in a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree. The drivers...

Our colleague Matt McSpirit wrote an article about the SVVP support policy wizard. http://blogs.technet.com/mattmcspirit/archive/2009/07/03/the-svvp-wizard.aspx The SVV Support policy wizard can be found here . The support policy wizard can be used to check which version of Microsoft server software...

Lately we’ve had quite a few questions regarding virtual processor assignment, processor over subscription and host processor utilization. And since systems with 8 physical cores or more are starting to become more common I thought I’d provide some additional information. I found a very good post by...

Great news! In the next coming months the new Virtualization Solutions Competency will be added to the competencies available under the Microsoft Partner Program. The Virtualization Solutions competency is launching later in 2009. Attaining this competency assures that you have the skills to build your...

Ruud Baars, one of our colleagues and System Center Data Protection Manager subject matter experts at Microsoft Services wrote several scripts to overcome a current limitation of System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 with Service Pack 1. An abstract from the provided help (Recovering a Hyper to...

We get a lot of questions about NIC teaming support in Windows Server 2008 so that this can be used to create fault tolerant virtual switches within Hyper-V. It is absolutely possible to use NIC teaming with Hyper-V, however this support must be provided by the hardware vendors. Now, HP finally released...

Just a quick post to share the good news! See: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/02/15/Microsoft-and-Red-Hat-Joint-Technical-Support.aspx

We get a lot of questions on why you cannot mount an ISO from a network share in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Well.. you CAN mount an ISO but it requires some additional configuration. You need to take the following steps: 1. Open Active Directory Users and Computers and open the Hyper...

The “System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007” has finally been released. (Including reports!) Download it from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d6d5cddd-4ec8-4e3c-8ab1-102ec99c257f&displaylang=en

Our partners Log•in Consultants and PQR finalized a project called “Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC)” and published their findings on http://www.virtualrealitycheck.net/ . Their findings are “interesting” to say the least! The project: Do you wonder about virtualization? Are you seeking for the best...

Matthijs and I created several demo videos that we want to share with you. We created these videos for the Dutch virtualization launch ( VirtualQuest ). These videos are in Dutch. A selection from the list: Configuring Server Core Installing the Hyper-V role System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008...

Finally we’ll have our own Dutch (launch)event around virtualization. Great content, live Q&A and a chance to win fantastic prices in the online challenge. Secure your (virtual)seat at: http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/evenementen/technetmsdn/technet_virtualisatie_launch.aspx

I recently got a question from one of our front running partners around SAN transfer in Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Unfortunately there’s not a lot of documentation available on this subject (yet) so I thought I’d share with you what I found. You can use a SAN with VMM 2008 to perform the following...

Interesting new virtualization content has been released: Partner Resources Guide (Must read) http://www.partnersalesresources.com/Hosted%20Assets/Virtualization%20Partner%20Assets%20-%20for%20partners.pptx This powerpoint deck directs you to the most useful resources for building a virtualization...

The Wave is complete... Now we see Windows 2008, SQL 2008, and Hyper-V all supported... just don't forget all of their dependencies on WSS and MOSS SP1 (I highly highly recommend the slipstream (with) version for new installs. Check the details in the full post on Joel's blog . -Andre