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Today we, Paul Huijbregts and I, resolved one of the last hurdles in finalizing our automated cluster installation script. This hurdle was to change the priority of the Live Migration settings when creating a Hyper-V cluster. To change this priority we first tried to use the Set-VMMigrationNetwork PowerShell command. Unfortunately this command can only be…
about 6 months ago - 8 comments
Many businesses are changing their perspective on cloud services. A lot of arguments that prohibit acceptance of the cloud slowly start to crumble. Internet connectivity is a common good, bandwidths are increasing and even the legal aspects are dealt with. Instead of a threat the cloud now empowers possibilities. Microsoft anticipated on this change years…
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 11 months ago - No comments
Regarding Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V, we are very clearly in a discovery phase. When fellow Virtual Machine MVP Didier van Hoye aka @WorkingHardInIT asked me if I had already found out how to select the Live Migration networks in a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cluster, I simply didn’t have a clue. I saw Aidan…
about 1 year ago - No comments
Just before //build/ NGN invited the Hyper-V.nu crew over for a series of interviews. Jaap Wesselius who originally started the Hyper-V usergroup accepted the role of the interviewer. Peter Noorderijk, Maarten Wijsman and myself were asked to answer Jaap’s questions. Before you start clicking the links …. the interviews are in Dutch, so unless you…
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
In November 2009 I met Matthias Popp from HP Labs at Microsoft TechEd 2009 in Berlin. During that event he showed me the first example of a live migration of Hyper-V Virtual Machines between two datacenters. The setup demonstrated a multi-site cluster, two HP EVA storage arrays with Continuous Access and HP Cluster Extensions (CLX)…