Hyper-V v2

Configuring anti-affinity for Hyper-V virtual machines

January 17, 2013

If you have worked on VMware, you might already be aware of a concept of DRS rules. Using DRS rules, we can create VM anti-affinity rules so that no two virtual machines hosting similar application roles run on the same ESX host. For example, when you have a virtualized SQL mirror or a virtualized SQL failover cluster, it is critical to separate the SQL virtual machines participating in the application group onto different ESX hosts. This is where we can use VMware DRS rules – “Separate Virtual Machines” rule to be specific.

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Find all Hyper-V hosts and windows virtual machines in your AD environment

April 15, 2011

Several Microsoft products use Service Connection Points (SCP) to advertise themselves using objects stored in Active Directory. Clients query the directory to locate services. Microsoft Hyper-V, as I mentioned, also registers or publishes its information in AD as a service connection point. Now, we can use ADSI or AD cmdlets or Quest AD cmdlets to [...]

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Auto generating VMConnect shortcuts for all Hyper-V virtual machines

November 18, 2009
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I am sure this is one of the things written and read quite a bit. I just want to post my thoughts and how I try to simplify these things for me. I usually don’t write about anything that is not “my” content. As with all other things on this blog, I prefer automation and through [...]

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Refreshed home PC setup

October 26, 2009
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With the recent release of Windows 7 & Windows server 2008 R2, I wanted to refresh how / what I need to install on my home PC. I received this PC with Windows Vista pre-installed and I was never a big fan of that OS. I have always been using Windows Hyper-V server 2008 and [...]

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Poor man’s P2V just got better; disk2VHD 1.1 is available

October 22, 2009
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A week back I wrote about a new sysinternals tool called Disk2VHD. After the initial 1.0 release, many people have expressed the need for having command line support. Sysinternals team listened to all of this. They just released disk2vhd 1.1. You can now use the following options to perform p2v from command-line. Usage: disk2vhd <[drive: [drive:]…]|[*]> [...]

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Hyper-V: VHD Shell Extensions, updated release

October 11, 2009
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I just posted a batch file wrapper around VHD Shell Extensions to find stale VHDs on a Hyper-V Server. However, because of VHDShellExt.vbs design, it will always try to find if the given VHD is associated with a VM on the local Hyper-V machine. One problem with this design is, you need to use the script on all the Hyper-V [...]

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Hyper-V: finding stale VHDs

October 11, 2009
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I use Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 for running many virtual machines for different purposes. For all of these virtual machines, I either create new VHDs and re-use the existing ones. Here is the problem. I don’t have SCVMM or any similar management software to maintain the VHD library. But I need to keep track of [...]

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R2: Introduction to Windows Server 2008 R2 VDI

August 22, 2009
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I gave an introduction to Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure at today’s BITPro UG Meet. Here are the slides Technorati Tags: Windows Server 2008 R2,BITPro,RDS,VDI

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