Hyper-V

What is a Hyper-V snapshot? Read this Ask an Admin for an introduction to Hyper-V snapshots and when you should consider using them.

TrainSignal’s Kasia Lorenc is back with another video interview, this time with Veeam’s VP of Product Strategy, Doug Hazelman. Hazelman discusses Veeam’s latest release of their popular Backup & Replication solution. Now on it’s 6th version, Backup & Replication now has support for Hyper-V.

Why did you choose Hyper-V? How do you use it? These are the questions Hyper-V MVPs are trying to get at in their Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2011. The survey’s goals are to learn how you use virtualization and to share this knowledge with everyone. So take 5 minutes of your time and fill out the survey to help the community.

Explanation of RemoteFX by Daniel Petri. Now, with Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1, RemoteFX introduces a set of end-user experience enhancements for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) that enable a rich desktop environment within the corporate network. Article includes hardware and software requirements, functionality overview, and a rundown of required editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1.

Daniel Petri covers some of the basic configuration options for RemoteFX – a set of RDP technologies, most prominently graphics virtualization and the use of advanced codes, that are being added to Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.

Daniel outlines 3 possible solutions for migrating a virtual machine between Hyper-V hosts. He discusses minimizing downtime of the VM and limiting the effect of other VMs on the virtualization host.

The concept of server virtualization has been around for quite a few years now, but it seems to just now really be taking off.  The basic idea behind server virtualization is that many servers tend to be grossly underused.  It is not uncommon for a server to only use about 10% of its hardware resources. …

If you’ve ever worked with Microsoft’s Virtual PC or Virtual Server, then you know that those products work in the same way as any other Windows application. They sit on top of the host operating system, and all of the virtual machine’s hardware calls are passed through the host operating system, which manages the server’s…

One of the most frequent questions I see on forums and newsgroups that deal with virtualization is the age-old question of “I have used all the space inside a VHD hard disk. How do I expand the virtual hard disk to make room for additional data?”. Luckily for us, with Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server…