and clusters for that matter
If you are interested in virtualizing SharePoint 2010 come to my presentation on September 23rd 2010 at C)Solutions in Veenendaal : http://www.csolutions.nl/sharepoint_event_100923.html
A beautiful poster about Virtualizing SharePoint 2010 can be found here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=195022
Click on poster for other SharePoint posters (Visio, PDF, XPS)
KB2264080 is a Hyper-V rollup that includes the fixes documented in the following KBs:
975530 Stop error message on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer that has the Hyper-V role installed and that uses one or more Intel CPUs that are code-named Nehalem: "0×00000101 – CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;975530
974909 The network connection of a running Hyper-V virtual machine is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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