about 7 months ago - 3 comments
UPDATED 10/8/2012 Pagefile If you install Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V, the pagefile will be automatically managed, which usually has a 1:1 ratio with physical memory. However VM’s use their own pagefile and do not use the host paging mechanism. If you have lots of memory, chances are your pagefile will be way too…
about 1 year ago - 7 comments
There haven’t been any new blogs on Hyper-V.nu in the past weeks because of …. you know … an absolute dearth of time. It so happened that my other Hyper-V.nu colleagues had the same luxury problem in these economical challenging times. So while I was doing a lot of other things which I will soon…
about 1 year ago - No comments
UPDATE October 20th 2011: Here is a link to the video: http://t.co/v1xAMV6x On Tuesday, October 4th Technical Evangelists Symon Perriman and Rick Claus are hosting an online conference on Virtualization Career Training with Microsoft Learning. This half day virtual event (8am – 11am PST) will offer a Level 100 to 200 introduction for anyone who…
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
Update October 21st, 2011 (see bottom) Let’s assume the following scenario: You have a Hyper-V R2 SP1 cluster that has three or more nodes You are using Cluster Shared Volumes You learnt about the Cluster Validation problem that was solved by KB2531907 back in May 2011, which prevented the “Failed to get SCSI page 83h…
about 1 year ago - 5 comments
When you look at the Hyper-V marketing page, you’ll notice that the list of supported operating systems is incomplete. If you want to know the whole support story including the recent CentOS Linux distribution that was added please go to the TechNet page, which also states end-of-support for some older Microsoft operating systems such as…
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Today I had to deliver a few 500GB Fixed Sized VHD’s in our Nobel Hyper-V Cloud Datacenter. The job had to be finished in a few hours involving provisioning the LUN, presenting them to the hosts, creating the VHD, adding the VHD to the Virtual Machines and prepare/format the disks for final use within the…
about 1 year ago - 7 comments
Recently I was asked to describe the correct procedure for defragmenting Cluster Shared Volumes on a Hyper-V R2 cluster. This is not really a very complicated task but if you have never had the opportunity to give it a try, this blog post will offer you the exact steps using PowerShell. Case Let’s start with…
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Today at TechEd 2011 in Atlanta we learnt that Microsoft now officially supports CentOS. CentOS is a popular free Linux distribution and is among the top three most popular ones. CentOS has been added to the list of formally supported Linux Distributions. The others are SUSE Linux Enterprise (v10 and v11) and Red Hat Enterprise…
about 2 years ago - No comments
Because I don’t want to copy Michel de Rooij’s blog I will simply make a reference to his blog. Many of us know that the Unified Messaging role was not supported for Virtualization and that the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Role if used in Database Availability Groups was not supported if implemented on top of Hyper-V,…
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