June 2008 - Posts

30 June 2008
Hyper-V: Locate Hyper-V enabled servers in your domain
It seems an eternity ago (May 2007) that I put up a post describing how to determine which domain-joined servers are running Virtual Server in your domain(s). Well that same functionality is present in Hyper-V, only the SCP or "Service Connection Point" Read More...
1 Comments  
30 June 2008
Deploying Windows Server 2008 with "slipstreamed" Hyper-V RTM. Part 2.
This continues on from last week's post to show the changes needed to enable the "slipstreamed" Hyper-V RTM role at the time of operating system deployment. To start with, follow the steps from part 1 to add KB950050 to each of the images in the WIM file Read More...
5 Comments  
26 June 2008
Deploying Windows Server 2008 with "slipstreamed" Hyper-V RTM. Part 1.
This article walks through updating an WDS infrastructure such that Hyper-V RTM bits are “slipstreamed” into the operating system installation. Given that Hyper-V has reached RTM (release to manufacturing), it was time to refresh my test deployment environment Read More...
9 Comments  
26 June 2008
Hyper-V RTM announcement. Available today from the Microsoft Download Centre
In the Hyper-V shiproom this morning, we signed off on Hyper-V RTM (Release To Manufacturing). The build and articles are actively working their way through the systems and will be available from Microsoft Download Centre from around noon Pacific time. Read More...
55 Comments  
17 June 2008
Hyper-V: What are the uses for different types of virtual networks?
If you followed yesterdays post explaining the basics of networking in Hyper-V, you may be wondering what the different types of virtual networks are, when you should use them, and how they look in terms of traffic flow. When you open Virtual Network Read More...
13 Comments  
16 June 2008
Hyper-V RC1: Hyper-V launch failed; Processor 0x4 does not provide the features necessary to run Hyper-V (leaf 0x80000008, register 0x0: features needed 0x26, features supported 0x24).
There's been many emails and posts about this since I replied to a Technet Forum post a few weeks back. This is a known issue we've investigated and identified as a bug in Hyper-V RC1. Limiting the number of processors to 1 physical sockets worth of cores Read More...
2 Comments
 
16 June 2008
How does basic networking work in Hyper-V?
While it is possible to create some complex networking environments in Hyper-V, the basic concepts are relatively straight forward. This post walks some simple scenarios and how the main components operate in terms of the flow of data. Let’s start Read More...
36 Comments
 
Page view tracker