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re: Hyper-V: CSV not Required for Live Migration

Jim Nickel — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:58:44 GMT

Does this alleviate the chicken/egg scenario with CSV?

For example, if you have your Active Directory machine on CSV storage and you have 3 nodes and you take two of them offline the cluster is down. Thus the CSV is down and you cannot run/start any machines on the CSV storage.

With this, is it possible to take 2 of them down and still have access to the storage?

I know it is best practice to have a physical AD. I have been getting around this problem right now, by storing one AD machine on local storage, but this solution would allow that AD VM to move around if the storage stays up when the cluster is down.

Thanks,

Jim

re: The Windows Azure Platform Appliance: Why, When and Where It Will Work for You

Rana — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:16:40 GMT

I found a short technical write up about Azure...

hareenlaks.blogspot.com/.../windows-azure-platform.html

re: Windows 7 BranchCache™ User Experience

Dan Dwyer — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:58:25 GMT

we have 16 offices can we have content server in each office and then just use distributed mode. Instead of setting up certs and upgrading to 2008R@ ent or data center?

re: Is Windows Azure the Answer? Yes!

Harry Falkenmire — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:52:58 GMT

What is "architecture as a service"? Never ever heard that one. To me the staple cloud offerings are PaaS (Azure), SaaS (Salesforce) and IaaS (Rackspace Windows Cloud).

re: Windows Azure beats Google and Amazon in Cloud Response Time Tests

Ryan — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:10:51 GMT

Mario - Check up on CloudSleuth again in a couple months. We have been Partnering with cloud providers to help outline what the providers actually deliver in terms of cloud services. If you know anyone from Azure that would be interested in contributing, give me a shout at content[at]cloudsleuth.net.

re: Hyper-V R2 Can Give You Backup / Recovery Options You Never Had Before!

Kasinobonusse — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:29:19 GMT

The files that need to be recovered to restore a message store database and logs.You can restore a single file or more from inside a VM from the VHD via several methods.This is the really great way to recover a single file.

re: Hyper-V R2 Can Give You Backup / Recovery Options You Never Had Before!

Brian Camilleri — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:28:09 GMT

Dear John

I have found many infos on the web stating that backup is possible using the integrated features and options in Windows 2008, I find that your post does mention all aspects keeping in mind the costs which for the most companies at present the only thing that counts. I hope to continue reading more about this exciting technology and wish you a pleasant day.

Brian

re: Hyper-V R2 Can Give You Backup / Recovery Options You Never Had Before!

Cowbelly — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:21:21 GMT

Rob, thanks for the great question. You can use a host-based backup of Hyper-V based VMs AND restore individual files. Exchange may not be the best example, because there are numerous files that need to be recovered to restore a message store (database and logs). You can restore a single file (or more) from inside a VM from the VHD via several methods - two I've used are:

1) using DPM 2010 (which lets you do it from within the user interface - really great capability!)

2) mounting the VHD on a host as a drive and simply copying the file out of the VHD. You can do this via Computer Management by selecting Actions and then Attach VHD - really great way to recover a single file from within a VM!

-John

re: Hyper-V R2 Can Give You Backup / Recovery Options You Never Had Before!

Rob Burdett — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:38:10 GMT

I think the main reason for agents within servers is for restoring individual files. If you had an exchange store corruption would you restore the whole VHD mount it as a disc then extract the database from it?

For individual files I assume you'd use shadow copies from within the VM's.

So am I correct in saying this method of backing up the host is mainly for complete server restores ?

re: Ready to Virtualize? Do you need a MAP?

Darren — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:43:54 GMT

As always Microsoft provide the best information and support for there software whatever type it maybe, also they provide solutions for more or less every platform that one could possibly think of. Helping there customers all the way 24/7.