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 […]
If you’re running Windows 2008 Server on a VMWare ESX host with VMWare tools installed, make note that the Windows 2008 Server VM can sync its clock to the ESX host, even if you disable this option in VMWare Tools. I recently experienced this in an Active Directory environment, and of course the Windows 2008 […]
Jose Barreto over at Technet has two interesting blog articles about Failover Clustering, or High Availability (HA), in Hyper-V. The first one is a post describing five different failover scenarios. They are as follows: Parent-based Failover Clustering with two physical servers Child-based Failover Clustering with two physical servers Mixed Physical/Virtual Failover Clustering Failover Clustering with […]
There is none! Hopefully we will see this in the future, but at the moment you’ll have to assess how much memory your VM needs, because it will all be reserved for it.
So I’ve set up a Hyper-V environment in my lab and installed Windows Server 2008 on one of my guest VMs, and it works great! However, one little thing annoyed me a little bit. Using RDP to the parent OS (where the Hyper-V role is installed) didn’t let me use the mouse inside the guest […]
Microsoft Hyper-V was released some time ago, and after having failed miserably in setting up a VMWare ESX whitebox system (due to no support for my mainboard) I decided to check out Hyper-V. I’ve been running VMWare Server for some time on my old Linux server and always wanted to get rid of the OS-layer […]