I recently ran into an issue importing some virtual machines that had been used with SCVMM into Hyper-V. I needed to export the virtual machines for use with a development environment while still leaving the originals where they were in SCVMM. The procedure I was using was: Shut down the virtual machines to be exported …

Tuesday’s IT Camp in Leeds was great fun and introduced lots of people to Hyper-V. The day itself was very different to the normal events that we’ve seen or been part of; I think I counted two PowerPoint slides during the entire event! The attendees were given the opportunity to try out Microsoft’s Hyper-V Server …

Building a Hyper-V virtual machine from scratch almost always seems to involve mounting an ISO image at some point during the installation process. I suspect that like us, many other organisations already have a network location in which we store ISO images. The ability to mount an ISO image from our usual network …

We’ve recently seen an issue running Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role installed on an Acer 6593G laptop. We’d updated the BIOS to the latest version available from the Acer site (1.16 at the time of writing) and Server 2008 R2 would no longer boot once the Hyper-V role was installed. Rolling back the BIOS …

One of the issues I’ve seen during our migration of virtual machines to our new Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster relates to network load balancing (NLB). We have a number of NLB setups running which will need migrating in time. My first test migration of a pair of NLB virtual machines (actually, technically a …

At Black Marble, we’re in the process of migrating some of our virtual machines to a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster. The process of migrating machines from a single Hyper-V host to a Hyper-V cluster is not quite as straightforward as migration of a machine from one single host to another. In addition, our …