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System Center 2012 Licensing
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25 days ago
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System Center licensing will change considerably with the release of System center 2012. The great news is that it will become much simpler than it is with the current System Center family of products. The first change is with the products. Currently...
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.5 Now Available
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2 months ago
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5 is now available for download. Download the MAP Toolkit 6.5. The journey to the cloud is now smoother than ever with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5. The MAP Toolkit’s...
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Installing VMRCplus 1.8.0 on Windows XP SP3 or Windows 7 SP1
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9 months ago
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I never expected to post another item on VMRCplus since we have Hyper-V for years now. But, I mentioned this before, there are still people using Virtual Server despite the fact that we have Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 and beyond and that we also have...
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HYPER-V VM DENSITY, VP:LP RATIO, CORES & THREADS: PDF
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9 months ago
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This blog post is now available as a PDF. You can download it here .
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Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory overview
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10 months ago
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Here is a nice article on Hyper-V Dynamic Memory explaining the parameters and internal architecture.
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VMC2HV – update for 2008 R2 SP1 available
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10 months ago
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Exactly one month after my blog post on the work on the updated version of VMC2HV for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, I announce the availability as of today. The tool has several new features, a different UI and many improvements over the previous version...
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VMC2HV Import tool–update for 2008 R2 SP1
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11 months ago
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It sure has been a while since I coded the VMC2HV import tool. I originally developed it for importing VMC files from Virtual Server 2005 to Hyper-V. And if you are wondering if anyone is still using Virtual Server? Guess what… there are still many downloads...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 RTM
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over 1 year ago
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This is great news especially since it contains virtualization enhancements like Dynamic Memory and Remote FX. It is not available yet, general availability will be February 22nd. See this post on the Windows Server Division weblog.
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WiX 3.5 Released
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over 1 year ago
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Although this has nothing to do with virtualization, it has everything to do with great tools. I have always used WiX for my Installer (Setup) projects starting with Visual Studio 2005 and higher. Now, version 3.5 has been released for Visual Studio 2010...
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.5 Now Available
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over 1 year ago
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Migration planning made easier with MAP Toolkit 5.5 Simplify planning for migration to the latest Microsoft products and technologies with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.5. This multifaceted tool is now even better—with assessment...
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Microsoft War on Cost study: Microsoft Hyper-V vs. VMware ESX & vSphere Operations & Management Cost Analysis
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over 2 years ago
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The War on Cost team conducted research in late 2009 and early 2010 to determine the on-going operations and management costs for Hyper-V in comparison with VMware’s ESX and vSphere products. The research intended to answer two questions: which platform...
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Now Available
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over 2 years ago
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The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments. This Solution Accelerator...
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Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster
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over 2 years ago
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Similar to the Windows Server 2008 R2 feature component poster , the Hyper-V poster is a great visual tool to help in the understanding of the key features and components. It highlights key Hyper-V components including: Architecture Virtual Networking...
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How many VM’s in a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 cluster? - Update
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over 2 years ago
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering, which is a standard component of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, is changing the support statement for the maximum number of Virtual Machines (VM’s) that can be hosted on a failover cluster. Originally it supported...
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Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, 2nd Edition
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over 2 years ago
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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...
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Project Virtual Reality Check publishes second phase of results
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over 2 years ago
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In case you missed it last year, PQR and Login Consultants published test results of running Terminal Server workloads on the three major hypervisor platforms: Hyper-V, XenServer and ESX. This week, on Tuesday, they published the second phase of the test...
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Increase VMBus buffer sizes to increase network throughput to guest VMs
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over 2 years ago
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Under load, the default buffer size used the by the virtual switch may provide inadequate buffer and result in packet loss. We recommend increasing the VM bus receive buffer from 1Mb to 2Mb. Read full article here .
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Microsoft Hyper-V VM State to Memory Dump Converter
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over 2 years ago
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In development environments or when debugging a customer issue, it is usually a pain to get a crash dump of an existing VM state. Anton Naumovich from Hyper-V team recently released a tool which can convert a VM saved state to a full memory dump file...
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Deploying Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on USB Flash Drive
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over 3 years ago
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I have shown this at presentations several times now; Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 operating from UFD. People often asked for a copy of the drive or a how-to-guide to make this work. Although totally unsupported, you can now configure a UFD with Hyper-V Server...
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The Server Virtualization host; not a pimped file and print server
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over 3 years ago
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Designing your virtualization host requires a lot of information; how many VM’s will it host, what are the requirements of each VM, what to reserve for the host, how much resources to include for future needs, etc. At least you need information on the...
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MAP Toolkit 5.0 CTP available now
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over 3 years ago
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The Solution Accelerators Team is offering customers and partners added inventory and assessment capabilities with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP). The MAP Toolkit 5.0 CTP provides customers...
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Capture a disk and create a VHD from it: Disk2VHD
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over 3 years ago
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Talking about cool utilities, Mark and Bruce have created a disk capturing tool which will create a VHD from the capture. Do you have a running machine you would like to put into a VM? This tool may just be enough. Check it out here .
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Microsoft and Red Hat Complete Cooperative Technical Support
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over 3 years ago
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This is nothing more than a link to a great post from Mike Neil on our progress with Redhat. There is now cooperative support from both companies when running select applications on either virtualization product, being Hyper-V or KVM. Also a very important...
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Using Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 for VDI
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over 3 years ago
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When configuring a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure using Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2, you need the Remote Desktop Virtualization Host role service. Enabling that on a Windows Server 2008 R2 system with the Full UI is rather...
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‘Missing’ network adapters in Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
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over 3 years ago
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When you choose option 8 in sconfig you may notice that sconfig lists fewer network adapters than there are actually physically available. It is also possible that sconfig shows no network adapters at all. Although it may not be obvious, there is a simple...
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