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In my last blog of my series on Windows 8 storage, I already briefly touched upon creating a VHDX with PowerShell 3.0 in Windows Server 8. In this blog I will focus on the subject a little bit more, showing the myriad ways of creating VHDs and introduce...
We all know that PowerShell is a very important component of Windows Server 8. You’ll need PowerShell to build, administer and troubleshoot your environment. This is also the case for Hyper-V features. Microsoft published a list of PowerShell CMDLETS...
Less than a week after availability of Windows 8 Customer Preview (client and server) we now have access to Hyper-V Server 8 Beta which is a single role version of Windows 8 Core with just Hyper-V enabled You have probably read about the huge amount of...
This blog is part of a series that started with Windows 8 Storage and Hyper-V Part 1 – Introduction: http://www.hyper-v.nu/archives/hvredevoort/2012/01/windows-8-storage-and-hyper-v-part-1-introduction/ VHD HISTORY If you have been working with any of...
Some time ago I did a series on Bare Metal Deployment of Hyper-V servers with Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta. Back in March I tested with HP BL460 G6 servers which have an Insight Lights-Out (iLO2) Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). This time I...
I received a tweet that many of you want to know how I did the boot from VHD with Windows (Server/Client 8. Here we go! INTRODUCTION The four steps are: Prepare VHD Locate install.wim image Apply Windows *.wim image to VHD Configure VHD for native boot...
Yes, this article is about yet another script that will let you check the Integration Components version of your Hyper-V node and all of the VM’s on it. On this blog there are already two (2) articles about checking the Integration Components version...
Recently I was asked to describe the correct procedure for defragmenting Cluster Shared Volumes on a Hyper-V R2 cluster. This is not really a very complicated task but if you have never had the opportunity to give it a try...
Today at TechEd 2011 in Atlanta we learnt that Microsoft now officially supports CentOS. CentOS is a popular free Linux distribution and is among the top three most popular ones. CentOS has been added to the list of formally supported Linux Distributions...
In the previous post I went into some detail about Out of Band Management (OOB) options in SCVMM 2012 and how bare metal servers can be discovered via an IP range via an OOB provider. After installation of SCVMM 2012 you’ll discover that HP iLO is not...