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 Tagged ‘Hyper-V Server 2008 R2’
Find free disk space in Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hyper-V updates & hotfix list
Some time ago I asked MS to split the list for Hyper-V updates in R1 and R2. Well … they did and thanks a lot!
Hyper-V Update List for Windows Server 2008 R2: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394763(WS.10).aspx
Hyper-V Update List for Windows Server 2008: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd430893(WS.10).aspx
Update April 2010:
A recent hotfix was made available by [...]
SP1 gives Hyper-V R2 Dynamic Memory
Today Microsoft officially announced that SP1 – which will be made available as a single service pack for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 – will enable dynamic memory for Hyper-V R2.
Currently each VM gets a fixed amount of memory. Ten VM’s with 2GB each, consume 20GB of RAM of the server. This [...]
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