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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 VMs. Do I size the host pagefile for the whole...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Mon, Mar 1 2010
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 and manage the Windows Enterprise HyperV hosts...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Thu, Jan 28 2010
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 into this and see what I could find. I found...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Sun, Jan 10 2010
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 next post will be a demonstration of Live Migration. This session is one part of a whole series of screen...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Sat, Jan 9 2010
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 Xeon 5050 CPU to a new Intel Xeon 3440 CPU...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Sun, Dec 6 2009
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 copy of the Microsoft Hyper-V Server...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Sun, Dec 6 2009
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 out a newer generation server. To me, the education...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Wed, Nov 25 2009
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 or three years ago when your customer would say,...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Wed, Sep 9 2009
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 guest OS on Hyper-V. While Operating Systems like...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Sat, Sep 5 2009
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 same machine, installed the driver...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Tue, Sep 1 2009

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