Tag Archives: Microsoft
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
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
How Do I: Use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit to identify servers suitable for virtualization with Hyper-V?
Lots of servers in your environment? Pressure to reduce costs? Not really sure which ones you should virtualize and which ones you shouldn’t? Fret no more!
How Do I: Build a highly available virtualization cluster with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V?
Windows Server 2008 R2 makes setting up a Hyper-V cluster easier than ever before. In this video Gordon Ryan shows how to create a 2 node failover cluster with Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and how you can use … Continue reading
How Do I: Configure a Cluster Shared Volume to support Live Migration with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V?
Windows Server 2008 R2 introduces the Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) feature which allows multiple nodes in a cluster to share a single LUN.
MCTS Exam Booked : 70–659 Server Virtualization
I’ve been badly neglecting this blog lately, however I’ll be sitting my Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization (70–659) MCTS exam on 30th November 2011 and I’d like to use it as a revision notebook. Hopefully my own notes might be useful for … Continue reading
System Center Essentials 2010 Resource Kit
Microsoft have published the System Center Essentials 2010 Resource Kit, which contains a set of tools designed to help the customer deploy and support System Center Essentials 2010.
