Tag Archives: Hyper-V
Microsoft Multipath I/O (MPIO)
The Microsoft Multipath I/O (MPIO) framework provides multiple paths for read and write functions to your storage device and is built into Windows Server 2008 R2. MPIO provides redundant failover and load-balancing support for disks or LUNs. The multiple paths can … Continue reading
Hyper-V VLANs
A VLAN ID is the integer which uniquely identifies a node as belonging to a particular VLAN. As per the 802.1Q specification, the VLAN ID itself is encapsulated within the Ethernet frame, which is how multiple VMs using the same … Continue reading
Hyper-V MAC Addresses
When a new virtual machine is created, the MAC address for it is either taken from a MAC address pool on the Hyper-V server or from the SCVMM server.
Virtual Networks
Virtual Network Manager (available from the Hyper-V Manager snap-in) offers three types of virtual networks that you can use to define various networking topologies for virtual machines and the virtualization server.
VMM Firewall Ports
When you install the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) server, you can assign some of the ports that it will use for communications and file transfers between the VMM components. While it is a best security practice to change … Continue reading
Interview with Aidan Finn about Hyper-V and CSV
Carsten Rachfahl interviews Aidan Finn about Hyper-V CSV and Backup: You can also download Aidan’s excellent whitepaper on CSV and Backup design here.
Failover Clustering and Hyper-V: Planning Your Highly-Available Virtualization Environment
This technical session discusses Hyper-V and Failover Clustering live migration, deployment considerations, licensing,upgrades, host clustering, guest clustering, disaster recovery, multi-site clustering, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, hardware and validation.
Hyper-V Hardware and BIOS Prerequisites
A 64-bit (x64) processor Hardware Assisted Virtualisation in the form of: Intel VT-x AMD AMD-V Hardware enabled Data Execution Prevention: On Intel processors this is called Execute Disable (XD). This feature must be enabled in the system BIOS. On AMD processors this is called No Execute (NX). This feature must be enabled in the … Continue reading
Free e-book : Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions
Mitch Tulloch has updated his free ebook from 2009 — it’s now updated for Windows Server 2008 R2. You can now download Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, From the Desktop to the Datacenter in either XPS format or PDF format.
Adding the Hyper-V Role to a Server Core installation
Before you enable the Hyper-V role, ensure that you have enabled the required hardware-assisted virtualization and hardware-enforced Data Execution Prevention (DEP) BIOS settings. Checks for these settings are performed before you enable the Hyper-V role on a full installation, but … Continue reading
