Archive for the ‘Virtualisation’ Category
Friday, April 18th, 2008
While you cannot import your VMs from Virtual Server or Virtual PC you can still attach the VHDs to new or existing VMs in Hyper-V. However, there are a few things you should do BEFORE you mount them in Hyper-V.
Uninstall any Virtual Machine components
I also recommend sysprep'ing the VM before ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
The question of how to handle Domain Controllers has been around for quite some time. The answer really depends on what product you have decided to use as your virtualisation platform. Personally I have found both Microsoft Virtual Server and VMWare ESX pretty good solutions to my virtual requirements. Regardless of the product ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Microsoft have just made the first releae candidate available for their Virtualisation plaform, namely Hyper-V. Details of the release can be found here. You can download the update here.
Unfortunatly there is no direct upgrade path from the Beta version. This means that you will have to recreate your VM's. Its ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Here is a great post from James O'Neill.
http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2008/03/13/expensive-hypervisors-a-bad-idea-even-if-you-can-afford-them.asp
As Microsoft get ready with Hyper-V VMware are beginingg their marketing blitz in an attempt to justify their pricing. As James points out in his post you can manipulate figures to come to any conclusion you want ... even if its way off base. ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Windows Server 2008 failover clusters support Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), iSCSI and Fibre Channel disks as storage options. So, how would you go about setting up a virtual Windows Server 2008 test cluster using the new Hyper-V virtualisation product? The method I am about to outline is a little differnt ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
There are plenty of articles out there explaining how to install the Hyper-V and get a Windows Server 2008 VM up and running. One such article is Virtual PC Guy's weblog (Here).
What if you want to get a Windows Server 2003 VM up and running? One thing to bear in mind ...
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