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Provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server “8” Beta and focuses on Hyper-V Replica, networking, virtual machine mobility (live migration), storage, failover clustering, and scalability.
You can download the poster on the Microsoft download site
Today I had a strange problem on a Cisco UCS installation. After you enabled Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1, you will get a black screen.
Cisco fixed this in the UCS Firmware version 2.0.1(t).
“After enabling Hyper-V in Windows 2008 R2 SP1 then rebooting, the server no longer shows a black KVM screen and a failure of windows startup and login.”
This quick how-to blog postshows you how you can setup the new released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 CTP.
First download the software:
You also need a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with SQL 2008 R2 and Service Pack 1
Two weeks after the release of the Windows Server 8 Beta, Microsoft released the System Center 2012 CTP for Windows Server “8″ Beta. The CTP includes System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 and System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1.
You can get the Downloads here:
Get System Center 2012 SP1 CTP documentation here
More Information about Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server 8 Beta
This is a quick post to help Hyper-V Administrators to start with PowerShell. In Windows Server 8 Microsoft extended the Support for PowerShell. PowerShell is now available in the most roles and features, can be very useful. For example for exporting and importing a lot of Virtual Machines.
Example 1: Import and Export VMs with PowerShell
Example 2: Attach multiple VHDs via PowerShell
To get all Hyper-V PowerShell cmdlets you can use the following command:
Get-Command -Moldule Hyper-V
In my Lab I don’t have a good storage which I can use for my Hyper-V Clusters. But with Windows Server 8 Microsoft added a lot of new storage features and included a iSCSI Target Server. With the new Storage Pooling / Storage Spaces features this allows me to use a Windows Server as a great storage replacement.
This offers features like:
