Virtual Machines Questions


I am having an issue with remote desktop access to a virtual machine in a Hyper-V failover Cluster
I am having an issue with remote desktop access to a virtual machine in a Hyper-V failover Cluster. 6 months ago I successfully setup VMs in Hyper-V with remote desktop access but it wasn’t in a cluster. I have remote desktop access to both of the cluster nodes it’s just the VMs within the cluster. [...]

Answer Question   |  February 24, 2010  9:20 PM
Failover Cluster Management, Hyper-V, Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 8/27, Remote desktop, Virtual Machines
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How will one be able to port one’s existing vm enviroinment into or onto Azure?
How will one be able to port one’s existing vm enviroinment into or onto Azure? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Answer Question   |  September 10, 2009  12:10 PM
Azure, Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 8/27, Virtual Machines
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Do you have best practices for maintaining/patching a virtual machine farm in a mission critical configuration?
Do you have any best practices that you can share for maintaining and patching a virtual machine farm in a mission critical configuration? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Answer Question   |  September 10, 2009  12:09 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 8/27, Virtual Machine Farm, Virtual Machine Performance Management, Virtual Machines
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Are there benchmarks that we can use to estimate VM Density for planning purposes?
Are there benchmarks that we can use to estimate VM Density for planning purposes?  Specifically, number of VM’s per MB of memory? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Answer Question   |  September 10, 2009  12:08 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 8/27, Virtual Machine Performance Management, Virtual Machines, VM Density
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What VM software is used in Azure and what VM software will Azure support?
Azure is based on virtual machines, what VM software is used in Azure and what VM software will Azure support? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Answer Question   |  May 20, 2010  12:06 PM
Azure, Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 8/27, Virtual Machines
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How does Live Migration differ from VM Failover?
How does Live Migration differ from VM Failover? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Answer Question   |  September 9, 2009  9:20 PM
Live Migration, Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 8/27, Virtual Machines
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What tools do I have available to migrate VMs from ESX to Hyper-V?
We have a large number of VM’s on ESX today. What tools do I have available to migrate these VMs from ESX to Hyper-V? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Answer Question   |  September 24, 2010  9:15 PM
Hyper-V, Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 8/27, Virtual Machines, VMware, VMware ESX
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Does Live migration need some sort of central storage system that the VM sits on?
Does Live migration need some sort of central storage system that the VM sits on? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Answer Question   |  September 9, 2009  8:56 PM
Live Migration, Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 8/27, Virtual Machines
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Is it possible for me to have different clock times in different VM’s
We run a few applications that are dependent on clock time.  Is it possible for me to have different clock times in different VM’s so that I can kick off the processes at the appropriate local time for the end users, or do these have to be on different host machines? This question is from [...]

Answer Question   |  September 14, 2010  8:51 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 8/27, Virtual Machines
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What, if any, are the limitations with SCVMM accessing and managing VMware VM’s?
What, if any, are the limitations with SCVMM accessing and managing VMware VM’s? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Answer Question   |  September 8, 2009  8:55 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 8/27, SCVMM, Virtual Machines, VMs, VMware
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Virtualization vs Consolidation
The process or running multiple virtual machines on a single physical server, is that called virtualization or consolidation?

Answer Question   |  September 17, 2009  6:24 AM
Physical Machines, Server consolidation, Virtual Machines, Virtualization
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820 pts.

parallels VM migration
parallels VM migration we have a IBM Server with Windows OS On that and have installed Parallels; in parallels they have created other Virtual Machine with Windows OS. how can we can shift this VM to FAS 2020? & how do we do the backup of these VM.

Answer Question   |  September 2, 2009  2:27 PM
Backup, Netapp FAS 2020, Storage arrays, Virtual Machines, VM, Windows Operating System
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V2V Conversion – VMWare Server Console to Hyper-V
I will be thankful to you if you can help me to resolve my query related to V2V conversion for converting Virtual Machines created in VMWare Server Console (version: 1.0.3 build 44356) to Window Server 2008 (Hyper-V) using SCVMM 2008. 1. I have installed VMWare Server console(Free version) on HP DL380 G5 series Server having [...]

Answer Question   |  August 27, 2009  6:19 AM
Hyper-V, Server virtualization, V2V, Virtual Machines, VMware Server, VMware Server Console, Windows Server 2008
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How do you monitor your virtual machines for security breaches?
How do you monitor your VM’s for security breaches? What are your go-to tools?

Answer Question   |  August 28, 2009  9:24 PM
Virtual Machine Security, Virtual Machine Security Management, Virtual Machines, VM
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How can I turn on VM guest OS’s from the command Line VMware esx 3.5
using VMware esx 3.5 How can I turn on VM guest OS’s from the command Line

Answer Question   |  August 26, 2009  6:20 PM
Guest OS, Virtual Machines, VMware, VMware ESX 3.5
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Is there any problem with scalation? how many VMs can I consolidate then?
Is there any problem with scalation? how many VMs can I consolidate then? This question is from the 7/30 Microsoft Virtualization Chat on ITKnowledgeExchange.com

Answer Question   |  August 21, 2009  9:25 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 7/30, Scalability, Virtual Machines
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But then you are talking about a huge OS the fashion of MULTICS in the 60s able to run VMs of MULTICS kind?
But then you are talking about a huge OS the fashion of MULTICS in the 60s able to run VMs of MULTICS kind? This question is from the 7/30 Microsoft Virtualization Chat on ITKnowledgeExchange.com

Answer Question   |  August 21, 2009  9:22 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 7/30, MULTICS, Virtual Machines
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I would like that Live Migration Really work can balance my VMs automatically by learning from my clusters configuration. Is it a goal for you in Micr
I would like that Live Migration Really work can balance my VMs automatically by learning from my clusters configuration. Is it a goal for you in Microsoft? This question is from the 7/30 Microsoft Virtualization Chat on ITKnowledgeExchange.com

Answer Question   |  August 24, 2009  9:17 PM
Live Migration, Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 7/30, Virtual Machines, VM
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Are there any special concerns that an organization should have around virtualization security that are unique to virtual machines?
Are there any special concerns that an organization should have around virtualization security that are unique to virtual machines, or is it the same as physical machines? Why is Microsoft giving Hyper-V away for free? This question is from the 7/30 Microsoft Virtualization Chat on ITKnowledgeExchange.com

Answer Question   |  August 20, 2009  5:10 PM
Hyper-V, Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 7/30, Virtual Machine Security, Virtual Machines, Virtualization security
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Are there any new developments around VM security that Microsoft is pushing?
Are there any new developments around VM security that Microsoft is pushing? This question is from the 7/30 Microsoft Virtualization Chat on ITKnowledgeExchange.com

Answer Question   |  August 20, 2009  4:51 PM
Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 7/30, Virtual Machines, VM, VM Security
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