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1) Managing MAC Addresses in Virtual Networks: Date - Feb 24, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Networking; MAC addresses are often not a large concern, but there are a few special considerations when using virtualized computers which are hardware independent.
2) Virtual Printing in VMWare Workstation 7: Date - Feb 23, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - General; One of the previous challenges of operating in a virtual environment is printing. VMWare Workstation 7 introduces virtual printing to help overcome these challenges.
3) Using Fixed Size Virtual Hard Disks – Just Do It!: Date - Feb 18, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Installation & Deployment; When configuring virtual hard disks, a fixed size disk has several advantages over a dynamically expanding disk. Here are a few of them…
4) Requirements for a Physical to Virtual Conversion in SCVMM: Date - Feb 18, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Installation and Deployment; System Center Virtual Machine Manager boasts the ability to convert a physical machine to a virtual machine. There are a strict set of requirements for this.
5) Migrating Virtual Machines between Hyper-V Hosts: Date - Jan 27, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Installation & Deployment; In the past, migrating a virtual machine was simply a matter of copying files. In Hyper-V, another method I preferred.
6) Configuring Time Synchronization in Hyper-V: Date - Jan 21, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Management; Time synchronization functions pretty simply in Hyper-V, but there are a few scenarios where you may want to modify this behavior.
7) Shutting Down Virtualized Domain Controllers: Date - Jan 14, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Management; Hyper-V supports the ability to virtualize Windows domain controllers, but there are a few best practices to keep in mind when managing downtime associated with a virtualized DC.
8) Dealing with Common Hyper-V backup failures: Date - Jan 07, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Management; You are backing up a Hyper-V server and running into backups that are failing or getting stuck? Here is the solution.
9) Upgrading a Hyper-V Cluster to SP2: Date - Nov 24, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - High Availability; This tip provides the high level steps to upgrading a Hyper-V cluster to SP2
10) Inability to install Integration Services on Windows Server 2003: Date - Nov 05, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Installation & Deployment; Why can't you install Integration Services on a Windows Server 2003 machine?
11) How to resolve a Stop 0x00000050 Error message: Date - Oct 29, 2009; Rating - 1; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Storage; This tip provides information on how to deal with a Stop 0x00000050 error on a Hyper-V Server.
12) What to do when you get a Stop 0x0000001A Error Message: Date - Oct 22, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Performance and Scalability; This tip helps you resolve a Hyper-V error with a random restart with Stop Error 0x0000001A.
13) Network Adapter has no driver: Date - Oct 08, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Networking; This tip explains how to deal with a virtual machine with no driver for the network adapter.
14) Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 SP2: Date - Sep 24, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Installation & Deployment; With the release of Windows Server 2008 SP2, you no longer have to slipstream the KB950050 hotfix
15) Importing Virtual Machines under Hyper-V R2: Date - Sep 17, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Management; Importing a virtual machine was a one time operation unless you kept a backup of the files. Hyper-V now provides the ability to backup the files for you.
16) Virtualizing Hyper-V: Date - Sep 09, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Installation & Deployment; How to virtualize Hyper-V on Hyper-V for testing
17) Backing Up Hyper-V Virtual Machines: Date - Aug 19, 2009; Rating - 4.5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Storage; There are a few options to take into consideration when backing up virtual machines in your Hyper-V installation.
18) Delegating Hyper-V Management: Date - Aug 12, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Management; In more complex organizational structures you may need members of your staff to manage Hyper-V servers without giving them full administrative access. We can do that with Authorization Manager.
19) Hyper-V R2 removes Start VM option from New VM wizard: Date - Jul 29, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Management; Hyper-V R2 has removed the ability to start a VM during the creation wizard
20) Does My Hardware Support Hyper-V?: Date - Jul 22, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Installation & Deployment; In planning your Hyper-V deployment there are some basic hardware requirements you will need to be aware of. A few of these may not be as obvious as you might think.
21) Dos and Don’ts of Encryption with Hyper-V: Date - Jul 16, 2009; Rating - 2; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Security; Encryption of any sort is typically a good practice to be in when at all feasible. This article discusses the dos and don’ts of Hyper-V encryption.
22) HP publishes whitepaper on teaming support for Hyper-V: Date - Jul 08, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Networking; HP has released a whitepaper with guidance on configuring NIC teaming on a HP server.
23) Backing up virtual machine files stored on a volume mounted via GUID: Date - Jun 24, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Management; When attempting to backup VM files on a volume mounted via GUID on a failover cluster, the backup will fail. To resolve the issue you need a hotfix
24) Is System Center Virtual Machine Manager Right for Me?: Date - Jun 18, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - General; System Center Virtual Machine Manager allows a great deal of flexibility in managing your virtual infrastructure, but it does come with an added price tag. Is it a sound investment for your network?
25) Using Private Virtual Networks for Added Security: Date - Jun 03, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Security; Hyper-V provides multiple types of virtual networks. Properly leveraging these can provide an effective security strategy for segmentation of your virtual machines.
26) SCVMM 2008 Self-Service Web Portal Installation Error: Date - May 28, 2009; Rating - 2; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Self Service Portal; When you are installing the SCVMM 2008 Self-Service Web portal on a machine with the default web site installed you will receive an error, here
27) Using the SVMM 2008 Configuration Analyzer: Date - May 21, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Installation and Deployment; Configuration Analyzer allows you to verify that the pre-requisites for installing SCVMM 2008 are correct. To run it locally you need to use the correct credentials.
28) New hotfix to support online Hyper-V VM backup with DPM SP1: Date - May 06, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Restore; A new hotfix has been released that allows online backup of virtual machines
29) SCVMM 2008 Templates and Integration Components: Date - Apr 22, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Library; When creating a template in SCVMM 2008 you do not need to install the integration components
30) Virtual PC 2007 and Vista: Date - Apr 15, 2009; Rating - 1; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Installation & Deployment; Running XP and using Virtual PC 2007, but need to migrate to XP SP3 or Vista, here is how to do that and get some added benefits.