I finally got around to setting up SCVMM 2012 SP1 CTP2 in my test lab today.  One of the first things I tried to do, after getting everything setup, was to do a shared-nothing live migration.  However this failed with the following error message...

A little while ago I talked about how Hyper-V in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 allowed you to see the IP address of a virtual machine through Hyper-V Manager . Well, with the release preview / release candidate build you can now take this a step further...

It has always been our recommendation that Hyper-V be installed on Windows Server Core in production environments (for performance and security reasons).  In Windows Server 2012 we have done a lot of work to make Hyper-V on Windows Server Core an...

In the past – a problem that many users hit was that if they were trying to move a virtual machine (through live migration or through import / export) we would have problems if the virtual machine configuration wasn’t matched correctly to the destination...

When you import a virtual machine into Hyper-V with Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8 – you now have three options:  Register, restore and copy: Restore and copy were available in previous versions of Hyper-V – but register is a new option.  Let...

This week I am in Amsterdam, talking about Live Migration and Storage Migration in Windows Server 2012.  I will also be talking about a more basic form of virtual machine mobility – import and export. In the past we have had a lot of problems around...

One of the handy things with Hyper-V PowerShell interfaces is that the majority of them can be used to target multiple computers at once.  Recently I needed to set all of my virtual machines to use a new VLAN.  I was able to do this with a single...

Here is a small change, which will hopefully have a big impact. One of our top support call generators with Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 is when people run out of space on a system that is running virtual machines.  We have spent a bunch of...

Last Friday we announced that an updated CTP for System Center 2012 SP1 is now available for download .  You will need to grab this in order to manage your Windows Server 2012 RC installations (I am installing it in my test lab right now). You can...

We are having a great time at TechED this year.  We have a lot to talk about with Windows Server 2012 and there is a lot of interest.  I have been talking to people about all sorts of things – but there has definitely been a lot of interest...

I have been busy working the floor at TechEd, and will be at the Hyper-V booth tonight for the welcoming Expo.  For all of you who are not at TechEd (or who slept in this morning) I would like to point out the online recording of our Server keynote...

Next week I will be flying down to Orlando, Florida so I can attend TechEd North America 2012. I have just put the finishing touches on my presentation – and am currently working on my most ambitious Hyper-V demo to date (involving not one, but two Hyper...

With the availability of the Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate – we have a bunch of information available online right now. Over on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform site we have: Hyper-V Comparison Guide This document steps you through the...

Today we announced the availability of the Windows 8 Release Preview / Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate. You can get all the details you need from: Building Windows 8: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/31/delivering-the-windows-8-release...

Hyper-V’s primary management interface is based on WMI.  More than that, it is based on an industry standard API profile that is defined by the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force - http://dmtf.org/ ). The DMTF profiles that we use are developed...

If you want to manage your Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Server from a Windows 8 desktop computer – you may think that you need to install the Remote Server Administration Toolkit (which you can download here ) but that is not what you need to do. Because...

I often use the feature of Hyper-V that allows you to “type clipboard text” into a virtual machine.  Unfortunately, in the Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 beta release there is a known issue where doing this can result in missing or garbled characters...

In Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 we have introduced a new state for a virtual machine to be in.  This is called “Off-Critical”. What is happening here is that there is a virtual machine registered with Hyper-V – but we cannot find the XML configuration...

A couple of days ago I talked about how it was much easier to shrink a virtual hard disk in Windows 8 .  But after writing that blog post – I spent some time playing around with PowerShell and found that there was an even better option. Instead of...

Late last year I posted about the process that I followed to reduce the disk size of my virtual machines, prior to converting them to using a fixed size virtual hard disk.  The process I used was quite complicated . If only I had waited for the beta...

Along with the new user experience in Windows 8, we have introduced a number of new Windows-Key shortcut combinations.  For example – Windows Key + C will bring up the charms bar, while Windows Key + Z brings up the application bar.  You can...

Recently a number of the Hyper-V drivers for Linux made it into the main kernel branch.  This means that native support for Hyper-V is starting to turn up in a number of Linux distributions.  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is an example of a new Linux release...

You probably do not know who Eric Bahna is, but let me tell you why you want to.  Eric is a Senior Program Manager on my team who has been driving the development of Hyper-V’s PowerShell support for Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012.  If you want...

A little while ago I wrote about how storage migration actually works . One thing I would like to call out is that the storage migration process is “copy and delete” and not “move”. Which is to say that just before storage migration...

Hyper-V provides one setting that you can configure for storage migration.  The maximum number of storage migrations you can have happening at the same time: By default this is set to “2”.  If you try to perform more than this – you will receive...