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  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 New Features

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    Other than rolls up all previous released windows patches since RTM, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 contains two new features. Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX. Dynamic Memory Dynamic Memory is a memory management feature for Hyper-V VM administrators. Dynamic Memory allows administrator allocates a range of memory to indivual VMs and windows system will automatically adjust…

  • Find Physical Host Name of a Virtual Machine

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      If the virtual machine is hosted on a Windows Server with Hyper-V and has Integration Service installed, you can look at following virtual machine’s registry to identify the physical host machine. HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftVirtual MachineGuestParametersPhysicalHostName   If you use PowerShell, here is a one line script that can indicate host name. (Get-Item “HKLM:SOFTWAREMicrosoftVirtual MachineGuestParameters”).GetValue(“PhysicalHostNameFullyQualified”)

  • Hyper-V VM Slow on Windows Server 2008 R2

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    I recently upgraded my virtual machine hosting server from Window Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2. There are some noticeable performance drop, especially on virtual machines that handles big log files, the automation script execution time can take 200% or more than it was in a VMHOST with Windows Server 2008. I have done…

  • Limitations you need know before installing Hpyer-V on laptop

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    If you are thinking about installing Hyper-V on laptop, you need to put following into consideration. Some of Hyper-V’s design will limit laptop’s functions, these limitation are reasonable for a server operation system but would be a pain when you consider installing Hyper-V on a laptop. You cannot connect a virtual network to a wireless…

  • How to Install Hyper-V

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    What is Hyper-V Hyper-V is Microsoft’s supported form of machine virtualization.  It allows you to run any number of guest machines on your host machine.  Each guest thinks it’s running on its own hardware, and is unaware that it’s just a simulation. Hyper-V also provides an easy way to snapshot and rollback virtual machine to…

  • Manage Hyper-V remotely from windows 7

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    Once Hyper-V role is enabled on windows server 2008/R2, Hyper-V manager will be installed automatically. However, you don’t need to log on to Hyper-V host server to use Hyper-V manager. Instead, you can manage Hyper-V machines remotely from you Win7 desktop. To manage Hyper-V machines remotely from Win 7, following these steps: Install Remote Server…

  • Enabling Virtualization in Your BIOS

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    For Dell Systems Restart your machine, and press F2 at boot (or whichever key is necessary) to enter BIOS setup Under Performance > set Virtualization to ON Under Performance > set VT for Direct I/O Access to ON Save & Exit BIOS Restart computer For HP Systems Restart your machine, and press F2 at boot…