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30 June 2010 21:54

Building a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V failover cluster with HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric

This white paper provides an illustration of how to build a two node Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Failover Cluster with HP ProLiant server blades and HP Virtual Connect (VC) FlexFabric. The focus of the paper is on the steps necessary to configure...
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30 March 2010 16:41

Citrix and Microsoft Team up for "Hands On Lab"!

Want to play around or test XenDesktop 4 on Hyper-V, but you cannot find the time to build a test environment? Well look no further, Citrix and Microsoft have teamed up to bring you a Hands on Lab. The Hands on Lab is a pre-built environment / training...
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31 January 2010 14:56

Mini Hyper-V Manager

Came across the following post on a Mini Hyper-V Manager that sits in your System Tray and allows some basic virtual machine functions. Take a look at http://blogs.msdn.com/jorman/archive/2010/01/24/hyper-v-manager.aspx Patrick Lownds
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18 June 2009 22:51

Comparing Hyper-V R1 and R2

Now that Hyper-V R2 is on the horizon people are starting to ask about the differences between Hyper-V R1 and R2. Below is a summary table that shows some of the differences: Patrick Lownds
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16 March 2009 11:43

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 - TAP

The System Center Operations Manager team has released a beta build of the Hyper-V Management Pack. The key point here is that Microsoft can now, with the addition of the Hyper-V Management Pack for Operations Manager, monitor the health and performance...
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05 January 2009 19:41

Top Issues for Microsoft Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Great blog detailing the top issues being reported by customers during the first few months after Hyper-V went RTM at http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/archive/2008/12/23/top-issues-for-microsoft-support-for-windows-server-2008-hyper-v.aspx
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12 December 2008 13:34

Hyper-V Training Resources

If you are a Microsoft partner then there are a number of Hyper-V training resources available to you. Take a look at the Microsoft Partner Training and Readiness Resource Center ( www.msptr.com ) and download the following to get you started: ·...
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27 November 2008 14:48

Page File Sizing for the Root/Parent Partition

The question of Page File sizing has come up recently a number of times and so I thought I would start off with providing some guidance that I have gathered (which is based on a couple of discussions with folks at Microsoft). Hyper-V Parent Pagefile Config...
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