Microsoft Gets Hyper About Virtualization
Microsoft claims that today's Hyper-V beta is an early Christmas present to customers and partners. The view on VMware: The Grinch who stole Christmas.
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16.12.2007 Xen in the Windows kernal or Hyper-V?
Every now and again we'll use this blog to correct errors in the public domain, mainly by journalists or analyst trying to do a good job but who come up short on fact checking due to time constraints.
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21.12.2007 Microsoft Moves Closer To Hyper-V Rollout
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) Tuesday unveiled the second release candidate for its long awaited Hyper-V hypervisor, which adds minor tweaks like guest operating system support for Windows 2000 Server and mouse integration tools forNovell (NSDQ: NOVL) SUSE 10 Linux.
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22.5.2008 Microsofts Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice
After his last foray into the Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product space, Jason Perlow is back this time to take a look at Microsofts Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008.
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14.2.2008 Download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 RC
The release candidate of next version of Windows server operating system - Windows Server 2008 R2 RC has been released by Microsoft. Another variant of Windows Server 2008 R2 is Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.
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13.5.2009 Microsoft's Hyper-V release threat level reaches RC status
Microsoft today spat out a release candidate build of its delayed virtualisation software Hyper-V.
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19.3.2008 Free Windows Server 2008 R2 Evaluation Installation ISO and VHD for Hyper-V Official Direct Download Links
Windows Server 2008 R2 is the next iteration of Windows Server operating system, which has been RTMed with build version 6.1.7600.16385 together with Windows 7. Microsoft is now officially releasing the ISO image for Windows Server 2008 R2 Trial Software, which allowing administrators and users to install Windows Server 2008 R2 to evaluate the new operating system for 180 days for free.
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17.8.2009Hyper-V Performance Counters Part four of many
The "Hyper-V Hypervisor Virtual Processor" and "Hyper-V Hypervisor Root Virtual Processor" counter sets have the same counters. The only
difference between the two is the "Hyper-V Hypervisor Root Virtual Processor" contains counters for only the Root Virtual Processors (VPs) whereas
"Hyper-V Hypervisor Virtual Processor" has counter for all other partitions.
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12.05.2008Hyper-V Performance Counters Part two of many
The "Hyper-V Hypervisor" counter set is a good place to start when looking for overall system information and what is running under Hyper-V.
Hyper-V Hypervisor counter set counters...
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09.05.2008Hyper-V Security Guide
This Solution Accelerator provides instructions and recommendations to help strengthen the security of computers running the Hyper-V role on Windows
Server® 2008. It covers three core topics: hardening Hyper-V, delegating virtual machine management, and protecting virtual machines.
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31.03.2009Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Hyper-V
The guide helps you become familiar with Hyper-V™ by walking you through the steps of installing the Hyper-V role, creating a virtual machine, and
installing an operating system on a virtual machine.
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19.12.2007Hyper-V and slow guest OS installation
Ben Armstrong: I have seen a number of reviews and comments about the fact that while Hyper-V virtual machines appear to be quite fast once they are
up and running - operating system installation seems to take quite a while. The reason for this is relatively easy to explain.
With Virtual Server and Virtual PC we only had emulated devices to use - and as a result we spent a lot of time optimizing and tweaking the
performance of these emulated devices. When we implemented the emulated devices under Hyper-V we had to remove many of these optimizations due to the
entirely different architecture of Hyper-V. We did not, however, spend much time re-optimizing the emulated devices on Hyper-V because we had the new
synthetic device architecture where we have focused our attention for performance tuning.
This means that Hyper-V emulated
devices are slower than Virtual Server / Virtual PC emulated devices - but Hyper-V synthetic devices are much faster than Virtual Server / Virtual PC
emulated devices.
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27.02.2008Hyper-V release candidate due for availability today
When Microsoft really is on track with something, it likes to march to a very loud drumbeat. This time, it appears the Hyper-V virtualization platform
project is going well, and with the latest milestone, the company's trumpets are blaring...
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19.03.2008Hyper-V performance - feedback wanted
Tony Voellm (Principle Development Lead) is after feedback on Hyper-V performance:
Check his post "
Windows Hyper-V Beta" for more
details and a snippet is below
As the person responsible for performance inside the Hyper-V product team Im confident is saying
youll see the hypervisor investment is really paying off. As you use the product Id love to get your feedback on Hyper-V performance.
If youve got feedback,
get in touch with Tony =)
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07.12.2007Building a Host Cluster with Hyper-V Beta 1
Robert Larson: Well by now you have heard the news that Microsoft shipped Hyper-V Beta 1 early!!
Like many of you I have been
testing away and thought I would share the steps for creating a host cluster in Windows 2008 and Hyper-V. For those that have built host clusters in
Virtual Server, you will find the process in Windows 2008 and Hyper-V much more streamlined and user friendly. One major improvement is the
integration of Hyper-V as a cluster aware application and native support for making a virtual machine highly available.
So what
are the 10 steps you have to go through to build a host cluster using iSCSI shared storage?
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20.12.2007Microsoft publishes draft Hyper-V Events and Errors guide
After the previous article about how Microsoft IT department internally uses Hyper-V, the TechNet library exposes another key resource: a list of all
possible errors returned by Hyper-V.
The troubleshooting
guide, called
Hyper-V Health Model by Microsoft, is still a draft (last update was on April 7) but its already very detailed.
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14.04.2009Hyper-V Performance Counters Part one of many
Anthony Voellm: In the next few posts I'll be covering Hyper-V performance counters. There have been a lot of changes from Beta -> RC -> post RC.
In Beta the counters sets for Hyper-V were not grouped under a common namespace. This made them hard to find. In RC the
counters are grouped under the Hyper-V namespace. That is each counter set starts with Hyper-V. For example Hypervisor Logical Processors are
now Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processors. The prefix causes all the Hyper-V counters to be grouped together.
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04.05.2008Installing the Hyper-V Beta in a Core configuration
Today I would like to talk about installing Hyper-V on a Windows Server Core configuration. All you need to do is...
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27.12.2007Hyper-V: How to make sure you are getting the best performance
Anthony F. Voellm: As we have moved from Beta to RC the number of questions I have been getting around Hyper-V performance have grown quite a bit.
Its time to put some tips out on how to avoid some common pitfalls.
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20.04.2008First Hyper-V Support Emerges From Desktop Virtualization Supplier
Provision Networks, a division of Quest Software, is jumping into desktop virtualization this week with its Virtual Access Suite, a desktop
virtualization system that supports Microsoft's Hyper-V.
That makes Provision Networks the first vendor to make Microsoft's
Hyper-V hypervisor the focus of its desktop virtualization efforts. Hyper-V is available in beta form at the Microsoft Web site and will soon to be
part of Windows Server 2008.
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01.05.2008Supported MS applications on Virtualization environments
Microsoft has released the Microsoft applications support on the virtualization environments below:
- Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V
(The OS with Hyper-V enabled)
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 (Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a bare metal virtualization platform that
includes the same Hyper-V virtualization Technology that is included in Windows Server 2008. However, Microsoft Hyper-V Server is not branded
Windows. Its official name is Microsoft Hyper-V Server, this product is currently in beta stage, will be targeted later this year)
- Supported partners' virtualization software (Third party virtualization products)
To see the list of supported applications,
click here
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=957006
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27.08.2008Microsoft postpones live VM migration for Hyper-V two more years
At a virtualization product launch today, Microsoft give a long-delayed demo of Hyper-V live migration, but then went on to slate the feature's
eventual release for the next edition of Windows Server -- which isn't due until 2010...
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09.09.2008Insomnia-causing Hyper-V
Daniel Oxley: I am in Seattle at the moment at an internal Microsoft conference. Yesterday I attended a presentation by one of the product managers
for Hyper-V where he really stressed a point that people ask me all the time, he also explained to everyone the reasoning behind the decisions made.
The 'issue' people have is regarding typical laptop functionality that is lost when you enable Hyper-V on a laptop with Windows Server 2008
installed. Basically, when you enable Hyper-V on a laptop you lose the Sleep and Hibernate power features that you had before enabling Hyper-V. These
features completely disappear when you install the role and you cannot re-enable them, nor hack the registry in order to get them back; Windows
Server 2008 is pretty much just told to forget all about these power-saving features. So, when you close the lid of your laptop nothing happens.
When you battery runs out of power the machine will shutdown or turn off, there is no gracefully power down into hibernation mode saving your desktop
session and everything else that you were doing at the time.
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13.02.2008New high-speed memory card format ready for mass market
Just what the world needs
another memory card format.
Hang on, don't despair yet,
because this one, with its
full USB compatibility and
high-speed interface, may just
have what it takes to catch
on.
Backed by the
MultiMediaCard Association,
and based on core technology
from Taiwan, the new miCard
might just be what the system
designer ordered. It slips
into a standard USB slot yet
complies with MMC electrical
specs. That means consumers
wouldn't need to buy MMC/SD
card readers for PCs, and if
it proves popular then system
designers may not need to
design in internal readers,
either.
With 60Mbytes
per second in throughput,
miCard trounces all mainstream
cards in speed. An interface
that handles a hefty
2048Gbytes of capacity is
future proof and only matched
by Sony's MS Duo and Pro. And
at 12x21x1.95mm, its only
competition is the slightly
smaller microSD (15x11x1mm). ..
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31.05.2007Why is there a 32-bit Windows Server 2008 option "without Hyper-V"?
Michael Greene: A few questions have come up as to why when you go out to download Windows Server 2008 there is a "without Hyper-V"
option. Further, if Hyper-V is only offered on the 64-bit version, why is there a "without Hyper-V" option for 32-bit?
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01.03.2008Hyper-V RC0 Update Now Available
After announcing the availability of the updated Hyper-V bits
last night, Microsoft has finally
enabled the download at the Microsoft Download Center.
The Release Candidate 0 (RC0) update to the Hyper-V role provides
improvements to security, stability, performance, user experience, forward compatibility of configurations, and the programming model. All users of
the Hyper-V role are encouraged to apply this upgrade. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
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19.03.200825% of Microsoft virtualized [on Hyper-V] in production
David Lef (Microsoft IT Technology Architect): Microsoft IT has indeed been deploying production workloads on Hyper-V for several months now. We are
currently about approaching 25% virtualized overall, up from the 7% figure discussed previously. (A big effort is underway to push as many new server
requests into VMs as possible.) Part of this effort it redirecting many new server requests into Hyper-V VMs, where a few short months ago we would
have been required to deploy them to dedicated physical machines. (Multi-processor, 64-bit, or other basic requirements that could not be satisfied by
Virtual Server 2005 VMs.)
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