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Friday, September 05, 2008 2:07 PM

PowerShell How To: Add -whatiff to your scripts

Wouldn't it be great if your scripts had a "read-only " mode that would allow you to test them without actually implementing changes? PowerShell call this "-whatif". Jeffrey Snover's Supporting -Whatif, -Confirm, -Verbose – In
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:26 AM

Hyper-V How To: Scripted Update Install on Server Core

The scripting sample in this topic shows you how to use Windows Update Agent (WUA) to scan, download, and install updates on a Server Core installation. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387102(VS.85).aspx
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:38 PM

Hyper-V How To: How to tell what physical disk is used for passthrough

Taylor Brown's blog post shows you the WMI that will tell you what physical disk a virtual machine is using when configured for passthough on the host : http://blogs.msdn.com/taylorb/archive/2008/08/21/hyper-v-wmi-what-vhd-s-physical-disks-are-associated-with-a-virtual-machine.aspx
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:27 AM

Want Free PowerShell Library for Hyper-V Management?

Check out Jamesone's work at www.codeplex.com/psHyperV Including: Finding a VM Get-VM, Choose-VM , Get-VMHost Connecting to a VM New-VMConnectSession Discovering and manipulating Machine states Get-VMState , Set-VMState , Convert-VmState, Ping-VM , Shutdown-VM
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:22 AM

New Virtualization RSS Feed

Free (as in beer) blog and Twitter aggregator (independent bloggers and 14 Microsoft bloggers on either TechNet or MSDN) for virtualization: VirtualizationFeed at http://www.virtualizationfeed.com/ . Most handy if you are a lover of aggregators.
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Friday, August 22, 2008 12:06 PM

Social Bookmarking and IT Pros

John Martin's Blog recently announced the Social Bookmarking Preview , "so that technical professionals can better connect with each other, share knowledge, and succeed." Remains to be seen how IT Pros will respond to this, but the new features include:
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:35 PM

How Do I … on Core?

A best practice for running Hyper-V is to run on Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008. If you follow another best practice, and do not run any workload in the parent partition (running all workloads as VMs in child partitions), then, once you
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:46 PM

Performance Tuning for Hyper-V Servers

The Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 has been updated to include perf guidelines for virtualization servers as well as: Performance Tuning for Server Hardware Performance Tuning for Networking Subsystem Performance Tuning for Storage
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:24 PM

Hyper-V Server Sizing: How Much Memory for the Host?

The Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 has been updated to include perf guidelines for virtualization servers. To calculate the host RAM = (VMRamRequirementMB x #ofVMs) + (#of VMs x 32MBVMOverhead ) + (512MBHost), The guide says: ...the
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:42 AM

VM Perftuning: Minimize VM background processing

The Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 has been updated to include perf guidelines for virtualization servers. It also gives the following advice for perftuning your VMs in order to save an additional percent or two of perf: Minimizing
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:57 AM

Measuring Content Effectiveness (ROCI)

How do you measure the return on investment (ROI) on content? Let's call this concept Return on Content Investment (ROCI). Wikipedia provides a close approximation as relates to marketing: return on marketing investment (ROMI) . Senior Marketing Manager
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:57 AM

New TechEd 2008 Hyper-V Videos Posted

Video presos on Hyper-V From TechEd 2008 are now posted on TechNet, check these out: Hyper-V Architecture, Scenarios and Networking , Jeff Woolsey, Mike Sterling Deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Best
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:26 PM

Hyper-V on the Edge

TechNet Edge has posted a series of videos with the Hyper-V PMs, and various other folks involved in virtualization, such as Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell . How Microsoft IT does server Virtualization and Hyper-V Hyper-V Part 1 - Architecture - Interview
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Monday, July 21, 2008 11:28 AM

Hyper-V RAM Calculator

Joeelway's blog links to a handy Hyper-V RAM Calculator you can use to plan your Hyper-V deployment. Easy to use: Specify how much RAM is in the physical host machine. Add each guest VM and enter how much RAM (in GB) you want to allocate to the guest.
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Monday, July 21, 2008 10:46 AM

How to tell if your server hardware is ready for Hyper-V/BitLocker

You can download a free third-party tool to help you identify if your server hardware supports the required features for Hyper-V and BitLocker: If your processor is Intel, you can use their free Intel Processor Finder tool. Read more about it on their
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