Archive for the ‘Hyper-V’ Category

Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals – Free Online Classes – March 29 – 31 (2011-3-8)

Just one week after Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (MMS), Microsoft Learning will be hosting an exclusive three-day Jump Start class specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology pros.  Registration for “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals” is open now and will be delivered as a FREE online class on March 29-31, 2010 from 10:00am-4:00pm PDT. [...]

Virtual Machine Density Flexibility in Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering (2010-6-29)

Recently Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering has changed the support statement for the maximum number of Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be hosted on a failover cluster from 64 VMs per node to 1,000 VMs per cluster.  This article reflects the new policy in Hyper-V: Using Hyper-V and Failover Clustering. Supporting 1000 VMs will [...]

Deploying Remote Desktop Connection Broker with High Availability (2010-5-18)

  This guide is intended for IT professionals, and tells how to configure Remote Desktop Connection Broker in a failover cluster. The configuration provides users with access to personal virtual desktops or virtual machines in a virtual desktop pool through RemoteApp and Desktop Connection A failover cluster is a group of independent computers that work [...]

Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 3.0 (2010-5-4)

What’s new in the Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 3.0? If you’ve used version 2.1, you know that it offers free, tested guidance and automated tools that let you safely service offline virtual machines in your SCVMM library. VMST 3.0 builds on this functionality, adding powerful new features designed to streamline the process of keeping your [...]

Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer is now available for Windows Server 2008 R2 (2010-5-3)

In Windows management, best practices are guidelines to configure a server as defined by experts. For example, it is considered a best practice for most server technologies to keep open ports that are required for the technologies to communicate with other networked computers and also block unused ports. Whereas best practice violations, even very important [...]

Cool Tools: VHDCopy, VHDCopEE and VMProv from Dilip Naik (2010-2-16)

  Yesterday I had a nice chat with  Dilip Naik he made a special tools for VM’s and the virtualboy  Made an excellent blog item about dilip’s product. Whit his product you can bring up a VM in just a few seconds , in case of a dissaster you need to copy your 1TB VM [...]