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If comparing the v12n community to a religion makes sense, then using Sir Issac Newton’s Laws of Motion to explain Veeam Global “Scientist” Doug Hazelman’s guest post on the Windows Virtualization Team Blog shouldn’t be a stretch either. Hazelman, one of the VM /ETC Q2 UGH recipients, announced the following in the post R2 Veeam Too:

“While Veeam has continued to build some of the best software for data protection and management of VMware infrastructures, we realize that customers are now faced with more virtualization choices. By fully supporting Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere, Veeam can help you manage heterogeneous hypervisor deployments and clouds with the innovative solutions you’ve come to expect from Veeam. The management and R&D teams at Veeam have a long history of working with Microsoft going back to the Aelita days, and we’re all excited to be working with Microsoft again.”

Imagine your favorite Physics teacher or professor at the chalkboard in an UGLY GREEN lab coat explaining:

Newton’s Laws of Motion are:

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From a Microsoft Server 2008 system you can use the Hyper-V Tools MMC to create and manage virtual machines (VM) on Hyper-V hosts. In this post I demonstrate the steps to create a VM on a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta host. The environment used for creating this post consists of:

• Server 2008 64 bit running Hyper-V Tools
  • The server is also a Domain Controller
• Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta
  • Joined to the Domain
• Both servers are VMs running on VMware Server 2.0

I do not want to mislead anyone. The Hyper-V VM inside the VMware Server VM will not run in my environment. I do show the process of loading the virtual CD and starting the VM along with the error message that is generated.

However, you are able to explore all the configuration options of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and the new VM. This may or may not be of value to you, but this post provides a visual how to demonstration that shows the simple process of creating a Hyper-V VM. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve previously posted about being frustrated configuring Hyper-V Server 2008 for remote administration in a Workgroup. This time I am setting up Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta joined to an Active Directory (AD) Domain. The steps in this post begin after the Hyper-V Server has been installed, networking has been configured, and the server has already joined the AD Domain. I am not using System Center Virtual Machine Manager, but instead the Hyper-V Tools that come with a complete install of Server 2008.

Joining an AD Domain definitely makes remote access with the Hyper-V Tools MMC a snap. Granted, John Howard’s HVRemote tool appears to have made the Hyper-V Server in a Workgroup configuration much easier since the last time I tried too.

Some notes about my environment:

• 2008 Active Directory Forest containing the following servers
  • Server 2008 to run Hyper-V Tools is also my Domain Controller.
    • Server 2008 64 bit edition
  • Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta
    
• Both servers are VMs running on VMware Server 2.0
  

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SB said BS so I had to show that installing Hyper-V Server 2008 in a VM is possible! Hopefully he/she will allow a VM hosted  on the free VMware Server 2.0  as acceptable proof. My virtualization host is a 64 bit Ubuntu 8.10 desktop running VMware 2.0. I created the VM from my Vista notebook using the VMware Server web interface. Once again, it’s a very simple, straightforward process.

I’m not claiming to be able to run virtual machines on the Hyper-V VM. Fact is I have not tried. My intent is testing and learning the remote administration for now. I am planning on joining this VM to an Active Directory Domain along with my Windows 7 Beta install. Hopefully joining the server and client to a domain won’t be as frustrating as trying to figure out the configuration for a workgroup! I’ll probably post that process too when I get around to it.

So, the rest of this post shows the build in a table formatted steps with images. SB, this one’s for you! Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has updated it’s licensing policies regarding virtual machines hosted on all versions of Hyper-V again. Available for download via the Licensing: Virtual Environments and Technologies web page, 2 key Microsoft virtualization policy documents now have Jan ‘09 revisions. A description of these documents is provided in the page’s Overview section:

Licensing Microsoft Server Products in Virtual Environments (Word file, 2.25 MB) is an overview of Microsoft licensing models for the server operating system and server applications under virtual environments. Licensing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 to Run with Virtualization Technologies (Word file, 1.39 MB) describes how Windows Server 2008 and other Microsoft server products are licensed when they are used with other virtualization technologies.

Here are some quick notes on the changes from these documents that caught my attention. Read the rest of this entry »

Along with the recent Server 2008 R2 Beta release, Microsoft has announced the public beta availability of their free, stand alone Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 server virtualization platform. Along with several other improvements, a most noticeable feature is the inclusion of both Live Migration, the live transfer of a guest between hosts, and Quick Migration, a clustered -like live fail over of a guest between hosts. I have not found a definitive announcement that the latest version will remain free like the previously released version, but I would have to assume this is the case.

If this is so, I am now waiting for the announcement from VMware that the free version of ESXi will provide free VMotion, and at a minimum, the High Availability (HA) feature. VMware, what will be your counter?

updated 01.13.08 – after thinking about it a little more after my rush to publish this post, both Microsoft Hyper-V Server and VMware ESXi require management to enable the Live Migration / VMotion features. So, assuming both products require a licensed version of their management server (SCVMM / VMM on another Server 2008 host vs VMware vCenter), what may be a more realistic announcement for VMware would be to allow ESXi hosts to have free vCenter agents allowing ESXi hosts to join a already licensed ESX Cluster.

I applaud Microsoft for this move as it should be a significant catalyst for a wider, more enthusiastic deployment of their hypervisor. I can only wonder if VMware saw this coming, and hopefully has a quick response, if not immediately, but for at least by VMworld Europe 2009.

The following are several links with more information about this announcement including sources such as Microsoft’s download page for Hyper-V Server 2008 as well as other Microsoft virtualization blogisphere posts. Read the rest of this entry »

Although Microsoft’s roadmap for general availability is still 2010, a public beta version of Server 2008 R2 currently available for Technet subscribers enables live migration for Hyper-V guests. Non subscribers will apparently be able to download the R2 beta from the product’s web page on Friday, January 9th.

This post consists of some quick notes primarily about the new virtualization related features. For more information about all the new enhancements be sure to follow the  links.

From Matt McSpirit’s Virtualboy Blog post Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Client Now Available on MSDN/TechNet!

“It’s come round pretty fast I have to say, but Microsoft have announced availability, through MSDN and TechNet (non-MSDN/TechNet subscribers can download them from Friday 9th January), of the beta’s of Windows 7 client, and better still, Windows Server 2008 R2.”

From the Windows Server Division Web Log

“Hyper-V in R2 now has Live Migration, allowing IT admins to move VMs across physical hosts with no interruption of service or network connectivity and significant network performance improvements. VMs in Hyper-V for R2 also get greater access to physical resources, namely support for 32 logical processors.”

From the document Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2

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