'Hyper-V' Tag
Hyper-V R2 Component Architecture
Another architectural poster from Microsoft that highlights the Hyper-V R2 components and features. You may download it from here.
Time Synchronization for Virtualized DCs
As usual a good conversation spurred on ActiveDir on a much discussed scenario of virtualizing your DCs while be varied of the known pitfalls. While virtualized DCs are fully supported on either competing virtualization solution by Microsoft, one known subject I would like to highlight here is the proper time synchronization. You must make sure [...]
Free e-book on Virtualization Solutions from Microsoft
You can get a free e-book in PDF format authored by Mitch Tulloch from Microsoft. This book covers Hyper-V, App-V, VDI and SCVMM 2008. Click below to register and download your copy. Also, in this month’s issue of Technet magazine, there is an [...]
Hyper-V as a guest VM will not run guest VMs within
As expected, and just like its counterpart you can’t run guest OS, (child partitions) within Hyper-V when Hyper-V itself is installed as a guest VM. Of course there are several tweaks out there that let you modify VMkernel and supposedly let you run guest VMs in ESX environment. I have yet to come across one that does the trick for Hyper-V. [...]
Hyper-V is just like a server core, with Hypervisor added
Ever since Microsoft joined VMware in handing out their introductory type-1 hypervisor solutions (without management software) out for FREE, there is a fair share of confusion in IT community regarding the standalone Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a standalone product that will run on a bare-metal box and will need to be managed via Windows Server 2008 [...]