Technolab 2.0 » Hyper-V

Clever solutions: Microsoft Azure and its fabric controller

Frode Sandholtbråten — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:07:34 +0000

I’m not the biggest fan of Microsoft Hyper-V which I assume is the hypervisor used in their Azure solution. As illustrated earlier, Hyper-V has its problems, especially with live migration and iSCSI support. But, the Azure have some clever solution on its own. I found a video from a presentation held at Professional Developers Conference …

Updates

Frode Sandholtbråten — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:27:17 +0000

Well, it’s been a quiet month. I’m still writing on my project, and I’m searching for a job. In addition, the planning for The Gathering 2009, where I’m the chief information officier, has begun. To sum up some of the things learned from my project: There are a lot of shaky virtualization solutions out there. …

Microsoft TechNet: Hyper-V release “party”

Frode Sandholtbråten — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:24:59 +0000

Okey, so it’s official, Microsoft Hyper-V is out.. To celebrate, Microsoft held a seminar about both Hyper-V and its management applications. As usual, the number of “we want you to buy this product” words by far exceeded the number of “our technocal solution is cool, but there are a number of improvements we want to …

Hyper-V for free

Frode Sandholtbråten — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:48:23 +0000

Just as anticipated, Microsoft is, according to Virtualization.info, going to give away Hyper-V for free. In addition, they are releasing a stripped down version which does not require the complete Windows 2008 OS. Even so, my original question still remains: do you have to buy a license for Win2008 to be able to virtualize your …

My project

Frode Sandholtbråten — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:23:11 +0000

So, ok, the new semester started today. As always, I’m a bit lazy on the first day so I took the opportunity to work from home instead of going to school. It turned out be a rather ok day when I finally got out of bed. I’ve made a quick front page and a suggestion …

Hyper-V: The Administration Package

Frode Sandholtbråten — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:56:47 +0000

The Microsoft equivalent to VirtualCenter is named Microsoft System Center Virtual Machines Manager. The 2007 version is out while the 2008 is in beta. t should provide live migration capabilities and simplify management of large Hyper-V farms. So, it should be included in every installation of Hyper-V. But no, Microsoft, doing the same as VMware, …

The Hyper-V experience…

Frode Sandholtbråten — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:39:24 +0000

Today I installed Windows 2008 Server Enterprise for x64. The reason for doing it was that I’m curious about Hyper-V which requires the Windows 2008 Server. It also requires a 64bit CPU with virtualization technology. The Dell PE R200 satisfies both demands and the install went well. Here are some quick thoughts: Installation: It takes …