Microsoft published a very useful article relating to top “gotchas” and “known issues” that folks seem to have trouble with in Hyper-V. “Gotchas” are sometimes also called “lessons learned” and “best practices.” It is a best practice to avoid a known “gotcha”. Read article here and bookmark it on your favorites! Applies to: All versions of Hyper-V
Thomas Berger published a very exciting article on Citrix Blogs about XenDesktop 5 and Microsoft Hyper-V. In this article he describes challenges he encountered during XenDesktop 5 and Hyper-V environment building at Synergy 2011. I am grateful to Thomas for sharing his learned lessons! A Hyper-V Cluster requires a Domain Controller to become functional. For transferring the infrastructure into the
At the beginning of April, Microsoft has released Microsoft iSCSI Software Target available as a public download. Here the article. Aidan Finn, a Microsoft MVP for Hyper-V has published a step-by-step guide on how to build a Hyper-V Cluster using this iSCSI Software Target. The paper covers the following topics: Installation and Configuration of the Storage Building a standalone host to
Microsoft has released a new white paper entitled Why Hyper-V for VDI. It explains why organizations should choose Hyper-V as their hypervisor when designing and implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution. It includes requirements analysis and benchmarking.
Andreas Skuban, Citrix, published an interesting article about automated VMs creation on Hyper-V using Setup Wizard. This blog describes how to create VMs automatically on Hyper-V 2008 R2 / SCVMM 2008 R2 with the Provisioning Services 5.6 SP1 “Streamed VM Setup Wizard”. In some cases administrators noticed that no available networks had been assigned to all of their created VMs. Even they
Citrix and Microsoft have been working together for desktop virtualization solution for about three years. The announcement of the new global V-Alliance program at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference this summer has increased the interest in this solution dramatically. The components of this joint solution include the following -: As the interest continues to grow , here are some resources you can use
Citrix has published a new document about scalability of XenDesktop 4 in Microsoft Hyper-V R2. You can find it here: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX126389
On the Virtualization with Hyper-V Technical Resources page, Microsoft has posted the “Virtual Hard Disk Performance White Paper.” This paper contains information about the performance implications of operations that use a differencing disk with Hyper-V, as well as the pro and cons of using differencing disks. All the information in this document is relevant to using differencing disks within a Virtual
The other day the folks at IDC published their worldwide quarterly server virtualization tracker report. You can see the news release here. Some of the main takeaways are: 18% of all new servers shipped in Q4’09 were virtualized, up 3% year over year Sales of virtualized servers declined 14% for 2009 Virtualization licenses declined 7% for 2009, but were up
Whereas best practice violations, even very important best practice violations, are not necessarily problematic, they indicate server configurations that can result in poor performance, poor reliability, unexpected conflicts, increased security risks, or other potential problems. Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) is a server management tool that is available in Windows Server 2008 R2. BPA reports best practice violations to the administrator
