HP has published a technical whitepaper focusing on the performance characterization of the disk sub-system for HP StorageWorks P4500 21.6TB SAS Multi-site SAN Solution (HP P4500 SAN), addressing questions a customer may have about deploying Microsoft’s Hyper-V R2 virtual machines (VMs) on HP ProLiant BL490c G6 Virtualization Blades (ProLiant BL490c G6) with HP P4500 iSCSI [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2010’
Private Cloud Self-Service Portal for Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V and SCVMM2008 R2
Not an entirely unimportant release! This allows you to put computing, storage and network resources into a dynamic pool and deliver infrastructure as a service. Think of it as your own private cloud in your own computer facility. Integration with the public cloud (Microsoft Azure) and public partner clouds (like Nobel Cloud Services) will be [...]
Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available in beta
The official beta of Windows Server 2008 R2 (and W7) SP1 is now available: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/sp1.aspx
So if you want to test Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX for superb graphical user experience in a virtual machine, here is your chance.
As Ben Armstrong pointed out in his blog that the full choice of supported operating systems will [...]
HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for HP EVA now supports Cluster Shared Volumes
In an HP Storage Works EVA Best Practices document published in February 2010, we were advised not to use the HP MPIO DSM with Cluster Shared Volumes, but as an alternative to use Microsoft Native MPIO only. This was unfortunate because the HP MPIO Full Featured DSM allows for better visibility and control of the [...]
Conditions when DPM cannot backup a Hyper-V VM
We recently saw a situation where a running VM could not be backed up by Data Protection Manager.
Here is why:
If at least one of the following conditions is true
The Hyper-V integration components for volume snapshot copy disabled for the VM
Dynamic disks configured inside of the VM
Non-NTFS based partitions inside the VM
Changed shadow storage assignments [...]
My Cluster MVP award has been renewed for 2010
This afternoon I got the great news. I received confirmation of my second Microsoft MVP Cluster Award. It is always very stimulating knowing that people @ Microsoft and in the community out there appreciate my Hyper-V / Cluster technical contributions on my blog and on Twitter. It has been really worth it. Being an MVP [...]
Migrating disks in Data Protection Manager
Ruud Baars, consultant and DPM expert at Microsoft NL explains how a disk in Data Protection Manager can be migrated to another disk by freeing up space, even if there are volumes spanning multiple disks.
See his blog at Ctrl P – The Data Protection Manager Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2010/06/05/space-needed-to-migrate-a-disk.aspx
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