September 2009 - Posts
Updated virtualization guides: Windows Server Virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server® 2008 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, outline the critical infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation of these virtualization products.
The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Windows Server Virtualization takes the reader through the process of designing components, layout, and connectivity in a logical, sequential order. Identification of the Hyper-V™ server hosts required is presented in easy-to-follow steps, helping the reader to design and plan virtual server datacenters.
The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager assists readers in the design and implementation of SCVMM architecture, thus enabling centralized administration of physical and virtual machines. Identification of the VMM server instances required is one of the simple, seven-step design processes presented in this guide.
Download the IPD Guides for Virtualization at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/ee395429.aspx
Infrastructure Planning and Design streamlines the planning process by:
- Defining the technical decision flow through the planning process.
- Listing the decisions to be made and the commonly available options and considerations.
- Relating the decisions and options to the business in terms of cost, complexity, and other characteristics.
- Framing decisions in terms of additional questions to the business to ensure a comprehensive alignment with the appropriate business landscape.
Hey All,
Microsoft just released the new VMMCA for vmm 2008 and vmm 2008 r2.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=02d83950-c03d-454e-803b-96d1c1d5be24&displaylang=en
Brief Description
Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and 2008 R2 Configuration Analyzer (VMMCA) is a diagnostic tool that you can use to evaluate important configuration settings for computers that either are serving or might serve VMM roles or other VMM functions.
Important
- You must install and run the VMMCA on the computer that either currently is or will become your VMM 2008 server.
- You should use this version of the VMMCA with VMM 2008 and VMM 2008 R2 only. To download the VMMCA for VMM 2007, go tohttp://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=132136.
The VMMCA is a diagnostic tool you can use to evaluate important configuration settings for computers that either are serving or might serve VMM roles or other VMM functions. The VMMCA scans the hardware and software configurations of the computers you specify, evaluates them against a set of predefined rules, and then provides you with error messages and warnings for any configurations that are not optimal for the VMM role or other VMM function that you have specified for the computer.
I will soon post a blog about the results of the VMMCA.
Thanks,
Alexandre Verkinderen
You want to make sure your
Virtual machine are always up and running ? Come to this session and see for
yourself how simple it is to make a Hyper-V Cluster,Live migrate Virtual
Workloads and best of all: how you can do it for free !
Speaker:
Arlindo
Alves started his career as an ICT consultant at a Microsoft Partner, with a
strong focus and recognized expertise in server based computing. Today, Arlindo
is an IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft Belgium & Luxembourg, focusing on the
next wave of technology innovations. As part of the IT Pro team he works closely
with the technical community and maintains his own blog at
http://blogs.technet.com/aralves
Speaker:
Arlindo Alves started his career as an ICT consultant at a Microsoft
Partner, with a strong focus and recognized expertise in server based
computing. Today, Arlindo is an IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft Belgium
& Luxembourg, focusing on the next wave of technology innovations.
As part of the IT Pro team he works closely with the technical
community and maintains his own blog at
http://blogs.technet.com/aralves
Windows Server Virtualization (Dutch)
Deze live meeting
geeft u een grondig inzicht in de nieuwe virtualisatietechnologieën,
zoals Hyper-V V2. Daarnaast bespreken we ook de nieuwe boot vanuit
VHD-functionaliteit en hoe u VHD gemakkelijk native kunt creëren,
monteren en gebruiken in Windows Server 2008 R2. We eindigen de
presentatie met een overzicht van de nieuwe capaciteiten in System
Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.
Windows Server Virtualization (French)
Cette session live
meeting vous présente en détail les nouvelles technologies de
virtualisation, y compris Hyper-V V2. Nous aborderons également le
nouveau principe d’initialisation à partir de la fonction VHD et
expliquerons comment créer, monter et utiliser facilement VHD en mode
natif dans Windows Server 2008 R2. Nous terminerons cette présentation
par une vue d’ensemble des nouvelles fonctions offertes par System
Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.
Hey All,
Microsoft has released the Product Support Reporting Tool for SCVMM2008 and 2008R2
Use the MPS Reporting Tool to gather detailed system status and configuration information from the Virtual Machine Manager server of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 or 2008 R2 server as well as from all managed virtual machine hosts, library servers, and physical to virtual conversion (P2V) source computers. This version of the MPS Reporting Tool collects gathers data to help Microsoft Support Professionals diagnose error conditions experienced in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.
The Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) version of the MPS Reporting Tool gathers the following diagnostic data for the VMM server, the virtual machine hosts and library servers that the VMM server manages, and physical to virtual conversion (P2V) source computers:
- Virtual Machine Manager traces
- Virtual Machine Manager database
- Windows event logs and virtual server event logs
- IP address
- Virtual Machine Manager setup logs
- SQL Server setup logs
- Registry information
- Open ports information
- System Information (msinfo)
You can download the tool here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4e3dc013-c299-4b80-9735-64a8b9fa60c7&displaylang=en
Cheers,
Mike
Securing Hyper-V (with the Winsec User Group)
Date and time: THURSDAY 1st October 2009, start at 18u30 until around 21u00.
Event Location: Microsoft BELUX - Corporate Village - Leonardo Da Vincilaan 3 - B-1935 Zaventem
Entry: Free
Registration: send a mail to benoit@mvug.be
Focus: with
the rising popularity of virtualization, it is time to start thinking
about how you secure your virtual environment. During this
presentation, best practices for securing a virtual environment based
on Microsoft’s Hyper-V are discussed, both from the angle of the
Hyper-V host as from the angle of the guests. Further it will be shown
how you can use Authorization Manager (AzMan)
to provide role-based access control for Hyper-V, separating host
administrators from guest administrators and precisely delegating
control to them, which will also be shown using System Center Virtual
Machine Manager (SC VMM).
More information can be found on the MVUG site http://mvug.be/content/Events.aspx