Tag Archives: Virtualisation
Exam 70–659 Revision Notes — Module 4
Time for a review of Module 4 — Ensuring High Availability and Recoverability This module mainly concentrates on Backup and Restore, Failover Clustering and VM Migration.
Managing Hyper-V Virtual Machine Snapshots
Once you create snapshots, they can be viewed in the Snapshots pane of the the Hyper-V Manager. Within Hyper-V Manager, you can perform a number of actions on the snapshots:
Hyper-V — Child Network Adapters
Hyper-V supports synthetic and emulated network adapters in virtual machines, but the synthetic devices offer significantly better performance and reduced CPU overhead. Synthetic Adapters Emulated Adapters No Physical Device Communicates via VMBus to vmswitch,sys Does not support PXE Boot Significantly higher … Continue reading
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.
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
