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HP on Hyper-V NIC teaming and SCVMM Powershell

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:21 PM by Clive_Watson
Patrick at HP has made public a whitepaper from HP on guidance for NIC teaming and Hyper-V, whilst it doesn’t state that HP support this, it’s a step in the right direction. Jeremy at HP has also been busy (or should that be busier than usual) and started Read More...
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Measuring Performance on Hyper-V

Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:11 PM by Clive_Watson
Thanks to Julius for the below link (under Biztalk 2006 R2 guidance!) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768535.aspx This is useful if you want a list of Hyper-V perfmon counters to monitor for CPU, Disk, Network and Memory       Read More...
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Performance tuning WS08 and Hyper-V

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:40 PM by Clive_Watson
If you want to and who wouldn't...take a look at the new Windows Server 2008 Tuning guide . Head down to page 58 for the Hyper-V section. This is been available for a few days but as a couple of people have asked me for this guidance recently - here you Read More...
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SCVMM admin console and ActiveX

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:04 AM by Clive_Watson
I recently cam across a sequence of events that confused me with the SCVMM Administrators console and Self Service Portal installed on my Vista x64 laptop. On one laptop the SCVMM Self Service Portal was working fine, on the other I was getting a gray Read More...
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DPM explained in flash

Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 1:46 PM by Clive_Watson
DPM 2007 and  Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 backups explained here: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dpm/flash/virtualization/index.html   Technorati Tags: scvmm , virtual server , dpm Read More...
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Webcasts, performance and Live Writer

Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:57 PM by Clive_Watson
VolkerW posted the following links to some upcoming Webcasts on Windows Server 2008 and Virtualization, more details on his blog . I'll also repost the link to the Virtual Server performance tips (slightly dated) but has some great planning advice: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;903748 Read More...
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Vista improves

Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:30 PM by Clive_Watson
As you've probably seen Vista has received a few improvements available in these KB articles. I particularly like the fact that the issue: " When you copy or move a large file, the estimated time remaining takes a long time to be calculated and displayed Read More...
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WHS goes RC

Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:10 PM by Clive_Watson
One of my favorite pieces of software (or should that be feature rich OS) has just hit Release Candidate status, the Windows Home Server blog has all the details. 100,000+ of you have already had the chance to beta this, more places will be made available Read More...
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Quest announces support for PowerShell

Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 8:55 AM by Clive_Watson
Thanks to Kurt (at Quest) for this pointer, I had a quick play with this tool yesterday...may be a possible GUI for some bespoke SCVMM scripts :-) More details below: Quest has created a graphical user interface for PowerShell, PowerGUI ; built PowerShell Read More...
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SCVMM Beta as a VHD

Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:09 AM by Clive_Watson
Half the fun (and sometimes pain) is installing new products and getting them to work...however if you don't have that mentality or the time you can now download SCVMM Beta2 as a VHD . I'm downloading my copy now: All you need is a Windows Live ID to Read More...
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VHD password

Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 10:29 AM by Clive_Watson
Steven recently asked me about the password for the VHD Testdrive program, he wrote: "I found your details on the Microsoft MVP site. I hope you can help in this instance. I have installed Virtual Server 2005 R2 and downloaded the VHD for Windows 2003 Read More...
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Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility

Posted Friday, March 30, 2007 9:19 PM by Clive_Watson
This utility will enable backups made with NtBackup under XP or 2003 to be restore to Vista or Longhorn. It's available on the downloads website now. Technorati tags: windowsserver Read More...
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It is a pretty big day....

Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:56 PM by Clive_Watson
And now for the biggie: At the Microsoft Management Summit in San Diego today we announced that Windows PowerShell will be included in Windows Server code-named “Longhorn” and will be available in Beta 3 of “Longhorn”. That's right, every version of Windows Read More...
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I'll never have to explain /3GB again...

Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:53 PM by Clive_Watson
...I Hope! Well done to the performance team for their recent Windows Server articles, in particular Memory Management 101 and my favorite Memory Management - Demystifying the /3GB switch . Also of note, they explain why PST files on a network are a no Read More...
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Why don't I see 4GB?

Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:27 PM by Clive_Watson
This is often reported and answered, but as 3 people asked about this today, I thought I'd blog it (sorry if you've seen this elsewhere a few times) Symptom If a computer has 4 gigabytes (GB) of random-access memory (RAM) installed, the system memory Read More...
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