Hyper-V

Starting virtual machines for WSUS

My test environment usually has a dozen or so machines at any one time. Some of these are short lived and used for a particular piece of testing – others are kept for  years. I decided that I wanted to keep up to date on the patching of these virtual machines so installed WSUS on a...

Creating Virtual machines #1: Creating the VM

I’ve had two projects in mind for a while.  First I need to build a new WSUS server in my virtual environment & secondly I want to automate as much of the VM creation and configuration as possible. Oh – and I’m not using SC Virtual Machine Manager. 

I’ll be using...

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Swapping virtual switches

Virtualisation is a great technique for creating demo labs. I took my laptop with a bunch of VMs of Windows 8/Server 8 to the PowerShell Deep Dive.  Normally I run my “server” laptop and my development laptop on a switch or connected via a cross over cable. The VM nics are bound to the...

Lenovo W510, Hyper-V and BSOD

Beginning of the week I took delivery of a Lenovo W510 – i7 quad core with Hyper-Threading (Windows sees 8 cores) and 16GB of RAM.  From reviews I’d seen it seemed to run Hyper-V OK so it fitted the bill for a mobile lab. Partitioned the disk OK and got Windows 2008 R2 installed.  Had to...