In the spirit of sharing I thought I would share how I create virtual machines on Windows 10 using Hyper-v using differencing disks. I work with a lot of different customers and needed a way to quickly create new VM’s ready to go. A normal approach would be to have a deployment solution (MDT) running […]
When I work remote against my customers I have one virtual machine per customer. This has many advantages for me. One advantage is that I do not have to install all the different VPN clients and stuff. Another advantage is that I isolate my connection to the customer from the virtual machine and not bridging […]
Many organizations are using the benefits of Distributed vSwitches (DVS) for simplified network management. However, there are still a lot of standard vSwitches being used. With VLAN segmentation being common, portgroups are being used as a representation of VLANs on standard vSwitches. Creating new portgroups manually can easily lead to errors, especially if the task […]
Wonder what VDI and RDS features you can´t use with different versions? I recently learned that Windows 8 Pro is fairly limited.
For all of you working with Hyper-V. Have a look at this page, and add to your RSS feeds to be up to date with known issues: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/365.aspx
Altaro is now publicly releasing a beta of it’s latest backup software. This time it is a backup software for Hyper-V on Windows 2008 R2. Possible to schedule different backup times for different servers, reversedelta so only changes are saved for new backups, restore to same VM or clone, add 2nd backup device that gets synched from […]
The long awaited App-V 4.6 within MDOP 2010 is finally here! This means, most importantly, that there is now support for x64 on client and server platforms! This has been a show stopper for a lot of people when trancending from locally installed apps to application virtualization. I talked about this on Atea Community 2009, […]
Just recieved a tip from a colleague about problems with network cards on virtual machines after a 3.5 to 4.0 upgrade of VMWare. Apparently the old card gets hidden, and if you try to add a new card there will be a conflict. This is most common on Exchange servers, but can also occur on […]
It seems that the Integration Services in Hyper-V won’t install on a Windows Vista unless you have Service Pack 1 installed. If you try to install the Integration Services on a non-SP1 install of Vista you get the following error: If you have just installed Windows Vista without SP1 and find yourself unable to upgrade […]
When removing a snapshot in Virtual Center or on an ESX host the job hangs on 95%. Or so it appears. The actual commit of the snapshot is done at 95%, and if you have a large snapshot it will take some time for the changes to be written to the original vmdk image. It […]