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Find free disk space in Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)

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

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: [...]

Presenter @ ExpertsLive on June 16th 2010

I will be presenting at ExpertsLive which is held in Nijkerk, the Netherlands on June 16th 2010.

Experts Live is a knowledge event around Microsoft Infra & Security, Unified Communication, Virtualization and Management with Microsoft System Center.
My talk will be called Hyper-V R2 Hotspots zooming in on Hyper V R2 Clusters, Cluster Shared Volumes, [...]

Data Protection Manager 2010 Release Candidate has arrived

The release candidate of DPM2010 has just been released. 
The download location is: http://connect.microsoft.com/site840/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=26452
         
The RC features support backup of machines within your intranet, which includes:

Workgroup machines
Machines in untrusted domains within your intranet

Please note that in this release, this feature has been built for backing up machines within environment and DPM2010 RC does [...]

A Hyper-V update rollup package is available for Windows Server 2008 R2

Several issues around VSS based protection & recovery are being addressed with this Hyper-V update rollup package. The package can be downloaded from: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=975354&kbln=en-us
The last three issues might sound familiar if you already perform host level protection of virtual machines on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager [...]

How to Protect your MS Virtualized Environment with DPM2010 (Part 3)

Next in this series is a TechEd Europe 2009 presentation by Asim Mitra, a senior program manager from Microsoft, on data protection and recovery of Hyper-V and Hyper-V R2 workloads with Data Protection Manager 2010.
DPM2010 beta has been publicly available for a few weeks. In my own lab DPM2010 is spinning happily, protecting a Hyper-V [...]

Best Practices to Implement Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V R2 on HP ProLiant Servers (Part 2)

On the first day of TechEd Europe 2009, Doug Dewerd presented a session on best practices to implement Windows Server 2008 R2 on HP ProLiant Servers. This is in fact the combination of hardware and software I have preferred ever since Windows and ProLiant were joined, exactly 20 years ago last week. The ProLiant server [...]

How large is your Cluster Shared Volume?

In his blog Chris Adams, a Senior Lead Program Manager in the Microsoft Server Division, wrote about setting up a new Hyper-V R2 clusters and migrating non high available VM’s to the cluster and FC SAN  based storage.
Chris has defined fairly large Cluster Shared Volumes. Until now I have advised to limit the number of [...]

First cluster migration experience to Hyper-V R2 cluster

[recovered from Google cache without pictures]
Our research HP c3000 Blade Enclosure at Nobel, sometimes referred to as Shorty, has been running several builds of Hyper-V clusters. Last summer we started with installing our first Hyper-V (now referred to as R1) cluster which went RTM at the end of June 2008.
Just after TechEd 2008 in November [...]