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 …

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 …

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 …

I’ve been a bit delayed writing this final blog post from Tech Ed EMEA 2008, so I’m back in the UK. The final day at Tech Ed 2008 EMEA IT was not quite as session filled as previous days, mainly because Rik and I had to be heading off to the airport shortly before 3pm to catch our flight home. The first presentation of …

Today has been interesting. Rik and I started the day doing the sightseeing we had time for. The Gaudi cathedral had been particularly recommended, so with limited time at our disposal, that’s what we decided to see. We arrived at the gate just as it opened, and were in within a few minutes. The cathedral is very, very …

Following my last blog post regarding SCVMM 2008 Beta and the issues I was seeing with non-admin access to remote machines via Hyper-V manager, I thought it would be beneficial to forward my query to the team concerned via Connect. Here's the answer I got: "What you are seeing is expected behaviour. When you add a …

Yesterday I finally got around to installing SCVMM 2008 beta onto a virtual machine (mainly to help us with some virtual machine migrations we've got coming up). I must say that I think SCVMM 2008 beta is very nice indeed! On my Vista machine I use Tore Lervik's Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar, and have done …