Red Hat and Microsoft will validate each other's virtualization technologies per an agreement announced yesterday. Each company will join the other's virtualization validation/certification program and will provide technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers. Hard to say what ...

Originally Microsoft Hyper-V only included the command-line tools for configuring iSCSI devices. Now, anyone who has had to use these tools (namely iscsicli) will tell you that they are incredibly complicated and are very hard to use.  Now with Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 we have included the gra...

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Mike Kolitz has just released "WIM2VHD".  This is a tool that allows you to take the WIM file off of a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 install DVD and turn it directly into a virtual hard disk that can be used by Hyper-V, Virtual Server or Virtual PC.  Not only is this handy ...

A customer passes on this tip for speeding up your offline P2V conversions using SVMM: “If I use a DHCP address all is fast. It’s only when I choose to use a static IP address it is slow. I’m guessing that by hard coding WinPE with a static address the...(read more)...

In Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 VHD support is now part of the platform.  This means that you do not need to enable Hyper-V to mount and manipulate virtual hard disks.  You can mount virtual hard disks directly on your Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 system in two ways.  The ...

Hyper-V logs a lot of useful information if you need to diagnose a problem, so I thought I would put together a little post explaining where you should be looking.  The first thing to know is that all Hyper-V event logs are stored in the Event Viewer under "Applications and Services Logs", "Mic...

Overview In this post, I will show all the steps required to run Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target. We will cover the specific scenario of a standalone Windows Server 2008 server (as opposed to a clustered one) on a full install (as opposed to a core install) and u...

I recently was setting up a Home Server on top of Hyper-V (Note: this is not a supported configuration, so if you wish to do the same - be it on your head) and had to decide between using physical disks directly attached to the virtual machine, or using fixed size virtual hard disks.  I had 5 S...

After posting about this last week - Tore has been working hard and has now release version 4.1 of his Hyper-V Monitor Gadget.  Key changes include: Added new server manager for easier management Added a Large size (undocked) theme with larger font Clicking on a host now starts Remote Desktop t...