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I Would Love a Rolls-Royce but...

With the Virtualization world buzzing and with latest Microsoft announcement from today that the Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server will be completely free of charge (and will come with Live Migration and …

  • Microsoft
  • Virtualization
  • vSphere
  • Hyper-V
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Is P2V always the best solution?

I saw this post post on Simon Gallagher’s Blog Using Virtualization to Extend The Hardware Lifecycle. Simon made a good point. Can we take the physical hardware out of the equation? Well I guess …

  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Virtualization
  • Windows
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Hyper-V Live Migration – Fail!

It seems that Microsoft have a knack of demoing products to the public that “don’t do what they are supposed to” - and it happened again. When?: Friday, March 20, 2009 8:00 PM Pacific Time (US & …

  • hyper-v
  • Microsoft
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Azure… and Hyper-V

Last week Azure went down for 22 hours – and this Microsoft’s Cloud solution. Reading Hoff’s post I learned that the reason that this happened was: What Happened? During a routine operating system …

  • Microsoft
  • Virtualization
  • Hyper-V
  • Windows
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SCVMM 2008 R2 Beta

I found this in my inbox this morning ( I saw that this was mentioned here as well: Dear SCVMM beta tester, As a past beta tester of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 software, we wanted …

  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Virtualization
  • Windows
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New VI-Plugin - hyper9 Client Search

Well yes it is experimental, but if you have tried their product, I am sure that you will see the benefit of what it can do for you. Now they have also released a plugin that will allow you to utilize …

  • Microsoft
  • hyper9
  • Administration
  • VMware
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Excessive CPU usage on Domain Controllers

Now this has nothing to do with Virtualization, but it is still very handy, so I thought I would share it with you all. Yesterday I started to receive alerts from our monitoring system that our …

  • Microsoft
  • Windows
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
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Hyper-V Technologies - Wrong Information

Well this is nothing new, we see this all the time, but today it really annoyed me. During a lecture I participated in today with a Microsoft Partner at Microsoft offices in Israel today, one of the …

  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Hyper-V
  • Windows
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The Future of Cluster Services

For those of you don’t already know, VMware have a new feature coming out in there next version. I am lucky enough to be part of the Beta group who is busy testing this. The feature is called …

  • Microsoft
  • Virtualization
  • Windows
  • Administration
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So How Are You All Doing with SCVMM Managing vCenter???

That was actually meant to be highly sarcastic, it seems that the folks in Microsoft thought this would be a good idea (acutally it would be very good - if it would work properly..) So you can control …

  • Microsoft
  • SCVMM
  • Scripting
  • Powershell