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Taking advantange of Windows PowerShell Remoting and VMM cmdlets: Even though VMM does not officially support the Windows PowerShell Remoting feature of PowerShell v2, you can get this to work by following the guidelines in this blog post. Officially, to execute the VMM cmdlets you need to install the VMM Administrator Read More...
Posted 16 August 09 10:50 by mlmich | (Comments Off)
Filed under VMM, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, VMM 2008 R2 RTM, Windows PowerShell V2
Utilizing Virtualization and boot-from-vhd for making a dual-boot laptop: I received my brand new Dell Latitude E4300 laptop today and I wanted to make sure i could boot both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 on it. Here is how virtualization came in handy. Instead of partitioning my laptop using two partitions (one for Read More...
Posted 01 June 09 09:20 by mlmich | (Comments Off)
Filed under VMM, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, boot-from-vhd
New features in VMM 2008 R2: In line with the Rapid Provisioning feature that i mentioned in my previous blog post, Vishwa, a PM from our team, just posted a comprehensive list of new features of VMM 2008 R2. Check it out here: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/scvmm-r2-rc-features.asp Read More...
Posted 11 May 09 12:49 by mlmich | (Comments Off)
Filed under VMM, Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, VMM 2008 R2 RTM
Rapid Provisioning in VMM 2008 R2 using the UseLocalVirtualHardDisks and SkipInstallVirtualizationGuestServices flags: At MMS 2009, our team announced a new feature of VMM 2008 R2 called Rapid Provisioning. This feature is not available in VMM 2008 R2 beta, but it will be available in the upcoming release candidate and in the RTM version. This feature was implemented Read More...
Posted 07 May 09 05:46 by mlmich | 2 Comments
Filed under VMM, Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Manager, VMM vNext, Windows Server 2008 R2, Performance, VMM 2008 R2 Beta, Windows 7, VMM 2008 R2 RTM
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Using the VMM Self Service Portal from a Win7 computer: We have seen a lot of cases of customers trying to view the Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal (SSP) UI from a computer running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7. If the portal is running VMM 2008, it is likely that you can't view the connections Read More...
Posted 04 April 09 05:49 by mlmich | (Comments Off)
Filed under VMM, Virtual Machine Manager, troubleshooting, VMM Eval, VMM vNext, Windows Server 2008 R2, VMM 2008 R2 Beta, Self-Service Portal, Windows 7
Trying to add Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host to VMM 2008?: we have several customers that tried to add a Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host in VMM 2008. Our team has not validated that R2 will work with VMM 2008 and it is officially not supported. However, for the few of you that tried to add a Windows Server 2008 Read More...
Posted 25 January 09 01:59 by mlmich | 3 Comments
Filed under VMM, Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Manager, VMM vNext, Windows Server 2008 R2
Running the Virtual Machine Manager server component inside a Virtual Machine: Running VMM inside a Virtual Machine is a fully supported way of running VMM. Our team tests this scenario and we have some customers deploying VMM in such an enviroment. If you would like to deploy VMM in such an environment, it is recommended to place Read More...
Posted 21 January 09 01:16 by mlmich | 2 Comments
Filed under VMM, Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Manager, Clustering, Windows Server 2008 R2, VMM 2008 R2 Beta, Live Migration, High Availability

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