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Robert Larson

Thoughts and information on Virtualization and other topics

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    Welcome to my blog.

    I am an Architect with MS Consulting Services specializing in Infrastructure Optimization and Virtualization. I am also the co-author of the new Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Resource Kit and the Virtual Server 2005 R2 Resource Kit.

    In this blog I will talk about various technology subjects that are my passion and also drive me crazy sometimes.

    The information in this weblog is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. This weblog does not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans or strategies of my employer. It is solely my opinion. Inappropriate comments will be deleted at the authors discretion. All code samples are provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose.

February 2009 - Posts

Managing MAC Address Pools in Hyper-V R2
Hyper-V automatically creates a MAC address pool for virtual machines usage when it is installed. Hyper-V RTM had no option in the UI for managing the MAC address pool and you had to edit the registry to manage the pool (see a detailed article on that Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:24 AM by RobLarso | 2 Comments
Hyper-V R2 and Management NICs
When you install Hyper-V R2 role now it reserves a single wired NIC in the machine for management of the parent partition. If you have only a single NIC in your server, you will not be able you select a NIC to create an external network when you are installing Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:41 AM by RobLarso | 2 Comments
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