Check out his series here.
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1. Open CluAdmin.msc
2. Click “Cluster Shared Volumes
4. Click the Volume (Cluster Disk also identified by C:\ClusterStorage\Volume…), right click and select “Properties”
Both “Capacity” and “Free Space” are shown.
If you use PowerShell you can use the command-line, for example:
Get-WmiObject win32_volume | where-object {$_.Label -eq "VMs LH & 2k3"} | ft Label,Capacity,FreeSpace
Want to move a VM from server A to server B along with its associated storage and snapshots in R2? Snapshots are associated with the VMs and not the VHD files. You should explore import/export. Soumya’s written a series of blogposts to get you started:
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/05/20/hyper-v-r2-import-export-part-1-the-case-for-new-import-export-functionality.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/05/21/hyper-v-r2-import-export-part-2-the-new-import-export-apis.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/05/22/hyper-v-r2-import-export-part-3-the-ui.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/05/27/hyper-v-r2-import-export-part-4-export-code-sample.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/05/28/hyper-v-r2-import-export-part-5-import-code-sample.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/05/29/hyper-v-r2-import-export-part-6-so-what-happened-to-configuration-only-export.aspx
Ben blogged about V1 (also called R1 now by some folks…) import/export: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/08/26/hyper-v-export-import-part-1.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/08/27/hyper-v-export-import-part-2.aspx
I recently had the opportunity at TR9 to chat for 5 minutes with John Cortez in Microsoft IT about virtualization and improvements to Branch Office infrastructure that resulted in millions of dollars of savings to IT. For more information see the white paper “Virtualization Moves Datacenter Functionality to the Branch Office” at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee191522.aspx, or watch the video at: http://edge.technet.com/Media/Virtualization-Moves-Datacenter-Functionality-to-the-Branch-Office/
Click the image to listen to the audio file from my public SkyDrive:
Courtesy of a colleague, here are some handy resources for reading up on how to set up a multi-site cluster:
Markus, the moderator over on the ILM forum, has created an interesting new content form: Forum Greatest Hit.
GHs are technical articles that are developed to address the following three key areas:
Each Greatest Hit Article is a result of a collaborative effort to develop helpful technical information. While written by an technology expert, each article has been reviewed (prior to its release) by a group of Microsoft product and UA and support specialists and thought leaders from this community to ensure technical accuracy and relevancy of the content. Greatest Hits articles are designed to fill a gap between a typical forum post and Microsoft’s official core documentation.
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I recently had the opportunity to chat with Rodney Fournier, Senior PFE at Microsoft, about building and running a testing infrastructure with our virtualization and management products, including Hyper-V R2, SCVMM, Operations Manager, Configurations Manager, PowerShell, well…Rod works with the whole stack basically. You kind of have to work with the whole stack to get a good pre-production test, don’t you?
Click on the image to hear the 10 minute audio podcast.
Some useful links if you are in the same situation:
Microsoft has a search engine for twitter. You can find some interesting results and new information. For example, someone recently twitted a blog post of mine (shown below). Is this Leetspeak? fat fingers?
Netgenoten Goed artikel: Hyper-V How To: Learn to Deploy Virtual Desktop Pools http://bit.ly/H8tAK Thu, Jul 30 05:29:18
With the use of bing translator (using auto-detect) I learn that it’s Dutch for “Just enjoyed a good article:” Not sure what I can do with that info yet, but perhaps I’ll add this twitterer to my list of Hyper-V influencers for the Netherland. Because I now know that this person has some interest in Hyper-V, perhaps I’ll follow their twitterfeed to learn of some new resources. I assume it’s a person and not a bot…
I’ll use TwInbox to do this from Outlook.
When I worked at IT Showcase, one of the first things I’d do when assigned a new topic is look up the internal mailing list membership of my content subject matter experts (SMEs). I’d then subscribe to some of those, and start watching the traffic on those lists. At the least, this allowed me to quickly pick up the lingo and universe of commonly (over)used acronyms, as well as detecting the “hot topics” in that technology.
Check out BingTweets about Hyper-V http://bit.ly/lJiM6 #bing