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Requirements for production deployment of Exchange Server 2007 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

A new article has been posted on TechNet covering “Microsoft Support Policies and Recommendations for Exchange Servers in Hardware Virtualization Environments”. This article, posted this week, marks the first time that I have seen details on the requirements Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 6:54 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

Failover Clustering for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with File Server Storage

Overview In a previous blog post, I described 5 different ways to implement Windows Server Failover Clustering with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Those options included: Parent-based Failover Clustering with two physical servers, Child-based Failover Clustering Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:21 AM by josebda | 6 Comments

Using Constrained Delegation to remotely manage a server running Hyper-V that uses CIFS/SMB file shares

As explained in my previous blog post at http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/06/24/storing-windows-server-2008-hyper-v-files-on-an-cifs-smb-file-share.aspx , you can store your Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V files in a CIFS/SMB file share. This Read More...
Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 10:27 PM by josebda | 4 Comments

Storing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V files on a CIFS/SMB file share

Overview I previously covered the storage options for Hyper-V and described the many choices between directly attached or SAN storage, fibre channel or iSCSI, passthrough or VHD, Virtual SCSI or Virtual IDE, etc. If you missed that one, check it out at Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:41 PM by josebda | 6 Comments

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Failover Clustering Options

There are many ways to implement Windows Server Failover Clustering with Hyper-V. I could actually find five unique methods to do it. Some of them will actually not give you a fully fault-tolerant solution, but most of them actually make sense in specific Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:40 AM by josebda | 13 Comments

Exposing native SCSI as virtual IDE in Hyper-V. Should you tell Virginia that there is a SAN?

I hear a lot of comments about the fact that Hyper-V can expose SCSI disks (either directly attached SCSI disks or LUNs on SAN) to child partitions (also known as guests) as IDE disks. Before you go telling little Virginia that, “Yes, there is a SAN”, Read More...
Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 3:27 PM by josebda | 0 Comments
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SNW Demo: Windows Server 2008 Core, Hyper-V and Failover Clustering - with screenshots

I spent last week in Orlando, Florida, working at the Microsoft booth in the Storage Networking World. I delivered one of the demos there and my demo included the following technologies: Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 iSCSI Software Target Windows Read More...
Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 4:50 PM by josebda | 6 Comments

More on Storage Options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, you can expose storage to a Hyper-V guest in many different ways. After getting some feedback to that initial post, there are two frequent comments that I wanted to address. You can boot a Hyper-V guest from an Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:30 AM by josebda | 8 Comments
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Storage options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V has been in public beta for a while now and lots of people have been experimenting with it. One aspect that I am focusing on is storage for those virtualized environments and more specifically the options related to SAN storage. Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:40 AM by josebda | 20 Comments
 
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