This is a cool tool I saw some time back but never really used. It’s a Windows Gadget that can sit on your desktop and monitor your Hyper-V servers. From here it can show you the status of the running machines on each Hyper-V host, and CPU utilisation. Below you can see the Virtual Guests that are stopped as well as the ones running. You can also mouse over … [Read more...]
Hyper-V launch aborted due to auto-launch being disabled in the registry.
Over the weekend, I spent some time rejigging the disk structure in my R&D Hyper-V server. I used StorageCraft ShadowProtect to backup the entire server as part of a regular backup process. I installed all the new disks into the server and then proceeded to restore all the partitions. Because I was not moving it to new server hardware, I did not do a Hardware … [Read more...]
TechEd 2010 Australia – Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory Allocation
The second session for today is the Hyper-V 2006 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory Allocation session by Ben Armstrong. This is actually really cool technology that will allow Hyper-V to allocate RAM dynamically to virtual machines as it’s needed. What this means to us is that we can configure a VM to use say 2GB of RAM, but it will only use that 2GB of RAM when it really needs … [Read more...]
SBS 2008 and Hyper-V Supported Scenarios
Today I heard a new one – someone had configured SBS 2008 on a server, and enabled the Hyper-V role on that server. They had then put some Hyper-V guests on top of it. They installed ShadowProtect on the SBS 2008 server and were experiencing issues with the guest operating systems having their disks disconnected during the ShadowProtect backups. The long and the … [Read more...]
Hyper-V Webinar recording available for free
In April, I did a Hyper-V Webinar with my fellow MVPs at ThirdTier. The recording from this event is now up and you can download it for free from the ThirdTier site here Check out the other recordings from previous webinars and also check out the ThirdTier blog for other cool tips n tricks … [Read more...]