Will hyper v run in a VirtualBox vm guest?
I have this running on a ubuntu 904 x64 system running virtualbox. Installed hyperv standalone vm guest fine. Installed window 2008 vm guest fine but could not enable hyper v. The video show what...
View ArticleBest Practices for Deploying Virtual Machines by Using Hyper-V Virtualization...
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View ArticleVirtualization and MS Windows Server Licensing
There are a lot of companies that are using virtualization today and in most of those environments will have Microsoft Windows Server products. If your in this boat I hope that you have changed from...
View ArticleMicrosoft Hyper-V 3.0 from a vSphere lovers perspective.
Microsoft is making claims that Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 is the best virtualization platform for Windows. I have to say that they have caught my interest with Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V version 3...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 is final available.
If you didn't hear already Microsoft has released Windows Server 2012. It's been a long time waiting but you can truly use totally redesigned operating system from Microsoft for production workloads...
View ArticleFree Updated Introducing Windows Server 2012 – RTM Edition Ebook
Mitch Tulloch has updated his free ebook on Windows Server 2012 based on the RTM version of the software. This free ebook has much valuable information on the new Windows Server 2012 operating systems...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Hyper-V Install and Setup Pt. 1
So now with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 available, I figured it would be nice to do a step by step setup and install of getting Hyper-V up and running. The focus here is really to show how you would...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Hyper-V Install and Setup Pt. 2
In this part after the installation we can give the system a hostname, ip address and configure DNS. This will all be done from the terminal and powershell. After you have logged into the system with...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Hyper-V Install and Setup Pt. 3
In this post we continue with setting up and managing the Hyper-V server core system. Now in order to manage the server core system remotely we need to install the Hyper-V management tools on another...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Hyper-V Install and Setup Pt. 4
The last part I'm going to cover in this series is how to install the Hyper-V role on server core system. This can be done a few different ways so I'll show how to do it using powershell and how it can...
View ArticleMy “VM” is Bigger Than Yours! Who really cares?
I'm not sure about anyone else but I'm really over hearing how big of a VM a vendor can create or the promise of 1 million IOPS. This really became annoying while sitting in a presentation about...
View ArticleConfiguring NIC Teaming in Powershell on Windows Server 2012
So lets configure NIC Teaming in Powershell now.
View ArticleMicrosoft System Center with SP1 is available.
Just in time for Christmas and the New Year the long awaited SP1 for System Center 2012 is available. At least to those of us on Technet and MSDN. I’m a bit late on sending this out since it’s been...
View ArticleMicrosoft Hyper-V 2012 Live Migration and Constrained Delegation
One feature with any good virtualization solution should have the ability to make your VMs mobile. With VMware the feature is called vMotion and with Hyper-V it's Live Migration. When your just using...
View ArticleAutomatic Activation for VMs on Windows Datacenter Server R2
License key management for virtual machines running in Hyper-V will become automatic in R2. This is definitely a nice and welcome feature but from what I know now it will only be available if your...
View ArticleMicrosoft updates it IaaS pricing model
This week Microsoft announced their new IaaS pricing and a couple changes stand out. No charge for powered off VMs per minute billing This is weeks after Google announced their Google Compute Cloud...
View ArticleTechEd Keynote for the Adult in Me, WWDC Keynote for the Kid in Me
After watching the keynote for WWDC today something came to mind. It was of a commercial but it took awhile for me to actually remember what it was about. All I could remember was that it pleased the...
View ArticleMSFT are trying to further weaken Red Hat more publicly
Now I don't think I have to say that this came from someone employed at a certain company that starts with an "S" and ends with an "E". I have nothing against the company or this person that sent the...
View ArticleHyper-V: Virtual Switch Issue
So I had this issue and wanted to post how I was able to fix it, if not to help someone else who may be faced with this problem, to help me remember if I run into it again. The error is show below. "An...
View ArticleDoes the enterprise need open source cloud platform
This is a question that came up which made me wonder why does the enterprise really need an open source cloud platforms like Openstack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, etc. What I tend to hear is that our IT...
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