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Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:33 PM

Want help setting up Hyper-V for High Availability?

I have a series of screen casts ( here ) that talk about setting up Hyper-V, but I wanted to let you know that we just released a new Hyper-V: Live Migration Network Configuration Guide here .  I wish I would have had this when I was building out...
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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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Monday, January 25, 2010 12:37 PM

How do I change the Disk Witness in Quorum

I received the following question: Hi, I have been following your video on setting up Hyper-V server with the Equallogic SAN which we have. It has been really helpful however I am having a problem getting the CSV to work. After creating the cluster the...
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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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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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Friday, October 23, 2009 10:23 AM

How do I make my Server 2008 (or R2) a router?

I met a partner yesterday that said he tried to move his Domain Controller from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 and was having problems.  As we talked, it became clear that he was also using this server as a router for his office. ...
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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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Monday, September 07, 2009 1:11 PM

Windows Server 2008 R2 Schema Extensions

Windows Server 2008 R2 includes new features that require a schema upgrade.  You do not have to upgrade your schema if you want to run Windows Server 2008 R2 in your environment, but you do need to upgrade your schema if you want to leverage the...
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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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Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:36 PM

Windows Server 2008 R2 Licensing

We have a good page that discusses the licensing updates we made for Windows Server 2008 R2 here .  Here are the high points: If you have Software Assurance (SA) on your Windows Server 2008 servers, you already own R2 <YIPEE!>. If you don’t...
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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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Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:15 PM

What is the Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows 7 System Reserved Partition?

When you install Server 2008 R2 (or Windows 7) to a fresh partition, sometimes you’ll receive the following message: Then, after installation, when you inspect the disk configuration in Disk Management, you see this partition named System Reserved.  ...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:41 PM

SCVMM 2008 R2 and the Power of Templates

As you’ve read, I’ve been using SCVMM for a while and I still learn new things about it. I mentioned templates in my first screen cast and told you that I would talk more about them, so here they are. Templates let you create a standard virtual machine...
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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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