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Monday, March 01, 2010 9:08 AM

How big Should PageFile.sys be on a Server 2008 Hyper-V Server?

I received the following question: Thanks for the article.  What do you do about your host system's pagefile?  I'm thinking more about size.  Do you leave the default?  I have a 16GB system and 12GB of that is allocated to...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010 6:40 PM

Managing Virtual Machines without Domain Administrator Credentials

I received another really good question, so I want to share it. My servers will be running Windows Enterprise running HyperV with 4 VM's each. The third server will run Windows Standard 2008 with Microsoft SCVMM. Is there a way for SCVMM to be installed...
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Sunday, January 10, 2010 7:31 PM

SQL Server Licensing in Hyper-V Environment

I received a question a few days ago about how to license SQL (per processor) within a Virtual Machine on a Hyper-V server (or other hypervisor based host).  There has been a lot of confusion on this, at least I’ve been confused, so I wanted to dig...
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Saturday, January 09, 2010 8:45 PM

Part 9 - So You Want to Get Started with Hyper-V? Start here! What’s New in R2 -- Part 2

As I mentioned in my prior post, I split the screen cast into two parts and here’s the second part. I pick right up where I left off, so be sure to check out Part 1 first. My videos have moved, please check out http://blogs.technet.com/uspartner_ts2team...
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Sunday, December 06, 2009 10:20 PM

Hyper-V Live Migration between Processor Generations

I’ve talked before about the fact that we cannot Live Migrate from an AMD CPU to an Intel CPU or vice-versa, but what about Live Migrating from an older Intel CPU to a newer Intel CPU? I’m going to show you a Live Migration from a three year old Intel...
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Sunday, December 06, 2009 9:59 PM

Hyper-V Server – How to setup a High Availability Cluster with just one copy of Windows Server 2008 Part II

This is the second part of setting up the Microsoft Hyper-V Server Cluster. This time I will cover the remote management, shared storage, the failover cluster configuration and Live Migration between Hyper-V Servers. Remember, you can download your free...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 5:33 PM

If you’re using the new Intel CPUs for Hyper-V, get this fix.

I’ve been honored to work with Intel lately on some of their technical trainings they present to their partners. Part of these events involve ongoing training where Intel provides an afternoon of partner technical training that walks them through building...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:26 PM

How long does it take your customer to deploy a new server based business application?

As you know, I really like Hyper-V, but that’s technical.  Where’s the value to our customers?  Back to my original question: “How long does it take your customer to deploy a new server based business application?”.  Think about it, two...
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Saturday, September 05, 2009 11:57 PM

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Supported Guest OS’

We have a page that lists our supported OS’ under Hyper-V here . This is where I need to explain the difference between supported and Yes it works . Supported means that we will help troubleshoot and maybe even provide fixes if there are issues with a...
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:47 AM

The Hyper-V NIC teaming debate

I’ve seen a lot of back and forth on the NIC teaming discussion and I decided to check it first hand. We have this stated policy here , but seeing is believing so I decided to take a look. I have two dual port Intel NICs so I slapped them both into the...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:14 PM

What is CLUSTER-INVARIANT??

I’ve been using SCVMM for a couple of years now and I really appreciate all of the time and effort it has saved me, but it has this annoying quirk and it recently annoyed me enough that I started looking for answers.  What has really gotten under...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:11 PM

How do you measure big? How do you measure footprint?

I’ve presented a number of sessions on Hyper-V and there are always people in the groups that have had more exposure to VMware than Hyper-V; so I usually end up drawing parallels between VMware and Hyper-V.  I’m OK with that because I’m one of those...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:53 PM

So You Want to Get Started with Hyper-V? Start here! What’s New in R2 -- Part 1

I’ve upgraded to the Release Candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2 and I wanted to share a little bit of what I learned. My intent was to do two R2 sessions, one to show you everything but Live Migration and the second one to show Live Migration. As I was...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:16 AM

Everyone has an opinion… What's Kerfuffle???

I’ve been watching an interesting “discussion” take place over the past few weeks via blogs, and honestly, I think it’s pretty funny. At the same time it is also pretty sad. More than a few years ago, Microsoft took the approach of trying not to criticize...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:02 PM

Windows 2008 R2 ship dates and Hyper-V Improvements in R2

So this is probably old news by now, but if you haven’t heard, we’re shipping  Windows 7 (client) and Windows Server 2008 R2 at the end of July.  The will both be available for retail sale on October 22nd.  I’m already running the Windows...
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