Posts Tagged ‘Hyper-V’

February 18 2010

Microsoft Virtualization Partners in Qatar

As of today, we have three Gold Certified partners based in Qatar, qualified and certified in the Server Virtualization competency within the Microsoft Partner Network.
1. Information & Communication Technology WLL
2. EBLA Consulting
3. Mannai Trading Co.
Information & Communication Technology WLL (ICT) is the first Microsoft partner in Qatar to complete the requirements to be certified on [...]

January 31 2010

Setting up a Hyper-V test lab

There are certain points to keep in mind while selecting hardware for a virtualized test lab environment, some of which I will enlist here.

Processor

This is one of the most important components to be taken into consideration:

The higher the clock speed, the better. Remember, the clock speed of the processor is the speed at which ALL [...]

October 24 2009

Which Microsoft applications can I virtualize?

For a list of Microsoft servers and products that are tested and supported in virtualized environments, see the Microsoft KB article 957006.
Be sure to bookmark this article, as the page is regularly revised as new products are supported. As of writing this post, the page is at Revision 10.0.

September 9 2009

Red Hat hypervisor tools to run on Windows only!

I read with interest a report on ZDNet this morning that the open source company Red Hat will initially offer its hypervisor management tools for Windows systems only.
According to the report, the company based its decision on the fact that Windows still leads as the operating system of choice for desktops.
A strange move this, especially [...]

June 10 2009

Release Candidate for SCVMM 2008 R2 available

The Release Candidate (RC) for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available for download on Microsoft Connect.
The major new features included with SCVMM 2008 R2 are:

Storage Migration: Enables migration of a VM’s storage while VM is running both within same host (with no downtime) and across other hosts (with minimum downtime).
Live [...]

January 27 2009

Hyper-V Remote Administration

January 27, 2009
When you connect to a Windows Server 2008 computer running Hyper-V from a Windows Vista client, the mouse input is not captured when you connect to a guest machine unless you install the Integration Services on the guest machine. You receive the following message:

Mouse not captured in Remote Desktop session.
It is however, [...]