Hyper-V

Diskeeper Helps Customers Get Virtual with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtualization

Diskeeper announced that its flagship Diskeeper 2008 automatic defragmenter achieved Certified for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V status from Microsoft. Diskeeper 2008 is one of the first three applications, out of 175 applications currently certified for Windows Server 2008, to earn the Hyper V designation.

The Virtualization team is now on facebook

The Virtualization team will be utilizing Facebook to discuss their product and strategy with the broader community, and are inviting MVPs to participate in the conversation.

Ask to be our friend on Facebook :

http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1341172571
http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1346782204

How to Sequence Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0

If you try to sequence Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 (I’ve tried to do this in SoftGrid 4.5 RC) you will get a error and inside error report you will find “Code: 0×0000000000000000” and a lot of other, not very usefull information about this error.

Full Story At Source, App-V.ca

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Last week I launched a brand new website dedicated to Virtualization Technologies and related technologies like System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Windows Server 2008 Core Installation, VMWare and Microsoft Application Virtualization, formerly known as SoftGrid Application. The website’s main-page contains news and blogposts that I collect from all over the Internet. I’m planing to implement there Download and Video sections where you will find related downloads and Videos.

This website called: App-V.ca

So if you are planning, piloting or deploying any Virtualization Technologies please join now!

Please join App-V.ca and ask to become news-poster. Contact me admin at admininfo.ca

And, PLEASE promote my new endeavor, App-V.ca  by spreading the word!

Failover Clustering for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with File Server Storage

Jose Barreto published very interesting article, which explains Step-by-Step how to create a Failover Clustering for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V JUST with File Server Storage.

Continue at Source…

Step-by-Step Installing Hyper-V on Server Core

Enable CPU virtualisation assistance and DEP in the BIOS.
Install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 (Core Installation).
Determine the NIC ID: netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces.
Set the IP address for NIC, let say for NIC #2: netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”2″ source=static address=192.168.1.3 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.1.
Set the DNS: netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name=”2″ address=192.168.1.2 index=1.
Rename server: netdom renamecomputer %computername% /NewName:HyperSvr1.
Reboot for that to take effect: shutdown /r /t 0.
Join it to domain: netdom join %computername% /domain:admininfo.local /userd:administrator /passwordd:*.
Reboot for that to take effect: shutdown /r /t 0.
Copy CoreConfigurator onto the Core server and configured any users, groups, enabled RDP, firewall settings, etc…
Download and copy the Hyper-V update onto the server.
Install the Hyper-V update: wusa.exe Windows6.0-KB950050-x64.msu.
Install the Hyper-V role: start /w ocsetup.exe Microsoft-Hyper-V.
Reboot.
Download and install Remote Management for Windows Vista.

What to use, IDE or SCSI in Hyper-V?

I have seen blog posts saying that there is no support for SCSI in Hyper-V.  That’s not exactly true :).  Microsoft said that you can use SCSI controllers for disks but not for your boot disk, the Boot disk must be on an IDE controller. But before making decision not to use SCSI controller, you should know that Hyper-V uses an emulated IDE controller.  This means there is a little bit of overhead in processing disk operations.

For SCSI support, Hyper-V uses a SCSI controller that is not emulated.  Instead it uses the virtual machine bus which is much faster and requires less CPU overhead.

As you probably know, the best practice is to separate your Data from your Operating System (OS).  I always install the operating system is on C: and store the data on D: drive.  In Hyper-V environment, C: will be a virtual disk on the IDE controller.  D: should be a virtual disk on a SCSI controller.  Just test this and you will see that it’s a not so bad idea ;).

The RTM update to the Hyper-V

The RTM update to the Hyper-V comes with KB950050 Update for Windows Server 2008. The KB 950050 update provides improvements to security, stability, performance, user experience, forward compatibility of configurations, and the programming model. Although Hyper-V is only available for x64 system, but the KB950050 with minimal components also applies to x86 (32-bit) Windows Server 2008 system.

The 32-bit Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB950050) package includes the release version of the following:

• The Hyper-V Manager console
• The Virtual Machine Connection tool for x86-based editions of Windows Server 2008

This 64-bit Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB950050) package includes the release version of the following:

• Hyper-V technology
• The Hyper-V Manager console
• The Virtual Machine Connection tool for x64-based editions of Windows Server 2008
• Integration Services for the following operating systems: Windows Server 2008 (x86-based and x64-based editions), Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) (x86-based and x64-based editions), Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 (SP4), Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) (x86-based and x64-based editions), Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) (x86-based editions), and Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) (x86-based and x64-based editions)

The KB950050 RTM update for Hyper-V will be delivered via Windows Update from July 8, 2008. For system administrators who want to update their system now, download update package setup installer from Microsoft Download Center.
Hyper-V Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB950050) 32-bit Edition
Hyper-V Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB950050) 64-bit Edition