Ahmed Bisht, Senior Program Manager from the Microsoft Clustering & High Availability team published a nice PowerShell script for exposing the free disk space in Cluster Shared Volumes.
Check out his blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2010/06/19/10027366.aspx
Posts from ‘June, 2010’
Find free disk space in Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
Removing HP Tools before or after P2V
Here’s a handy tool from CtxAdmTools to have around when virtualizing HP servers to a virtualization platform. It cleans up most if not all of the HP tools, agents and programs.
http://ctxadmtools.musumeci.com.ar/HPPSPCleaner/HPPSPCleaner12.html
HP updates ProLiant Support Pack to v8.50
HP has released a new version of its HP ProLiant Support Pack for Windows Server 2008 (both 32-bit and x64).
In general, a new ProLiant Support Pack contains important updates to storage and network drivers or firmware. Its main purpose this time however, is to support the newly announced HP ProLiant G7 series including its [...]
Hotfix required for Hyper-V R2 related to backup
If you see prolonged startup time with Windows Server 2008 R2 servers with the Hyper-V role enabled, this can be caused by a large registry hive that increases after every backup.
“The issue occurs because of a large number of orphaned registry keys. The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshots create many registry keys. However, they [...]
SCVMM2008 R2 hotfix rollup
A rollup is available for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 which solves a couple of issues:
Issue 1: A high availability virtual machine with a GPT pass-thru disk is reported is reported as “Unsupported Cluster Configuration.”
Issue 2: When you manage VMware Virtual Center that has distributed switches, the Virtual Machine Manager service [...]
Update hotfix list Hyper-V R2
I came across a new Hyper-V R2 hotfix on the list related to Intel Westmere processors (Nehalem EP/W5580).
“This issue occurs because Intel Westmere processors have a new Virtual Machine Control Block (VMCB) caching feature. This feature is added to provide a virtualization assistance to increase the hypervisor performance. Because this feature was introduced after Windows [...]
Microsoft changes Hyper-V R2 cluster limits
Until now Microsoft supported Hyper-V R2 clusters with a maximum of 64 VM’s per cluster node or 960 VM’s per 16 node cluster (taking into account a cluster reserve of 1).
With the upcoming SP1, these limits have now been increased to 1000 VM’s per cluster with any number of nodes, but with no more than [...]
Hyper-V R2 and Clustering Videos Technet 2010 North America
Last week a number of great presentations were given at TechEd 2010 North America in New Orleans .
Here is a selection of sessions on Hyper-V R2 and Clustering that I consider to be my field. Some of them are presented by my Cluster MVP Lead Symon Perriman.
Disaster Recovery by Stretching Hyper-V Clusters Across Sites: [...]
Hyper-V R2 Component Architecture Poster
I have seen several links to a great Hyper-V R2 component architecture poster: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5567b22a-8c47-4840-a88d-23146fd93151
But have you seen the Seadragon version?http://seadragon.com/view/12u8
Hyper-V R2 and Dynamic Memory in Depth
If you are curious about how Dynamic Memory (DM) is implemented in Hyper-V R2 SP1, go and take a look at Ben Armstrong’s presentation at TechEd 2010 US.
http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica/VIR304
Expect a public beta of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 towards the end of July. I can tell you it is a very well architected implementation of Dynamic [...]
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