If you like me have little experience with Hyper-V, Clustering and iSCSI, then you will appreciate how much “fun” we can have in getting it all working. Thankfully, I stumbled across this blog post from Ben Armstrong and a further blog from Aidan Finn with detailed step by step guide on how to use the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target to create a Hyper-V cluster. If you … [Read more...]
PowerShell– Hyper-V Scripting
Whilst digging for PowerShell scripts for Hyper-V, I found this very cool resource on the Microsoft TechNet Wiki site so I thought I would share it here. The Wiki has a load of scripts that will do basic things as well as more complex items such as compacting VHDs. Basically I’m looking to put a few scripts together to enable me to quickly create entire VMs for testing … [Read more...]
Cool Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows
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...]
ShadowProtect Virtual Edition released
StorageCraft last week released a new version of ShadowProtect for Virtualised Server environments. This new version is specifically linked to the virtualisation platforms for Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and Oracle. The retail price on these for a 3 virtual server pack is the same as the price for a single physical license. Great price point for sure. The … [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...]