Items related to virtualization, with a focus on Microsoft Hyper-V
I’d previously blogged about the Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V architecture poster. It certainly is a neat way to see the underlying concepts laid out, especially when printed on A2 sized paper!
Following this trend the poster guy, has created a poster for Windows Server “8”, and this is now available for download from TechNet.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Rhoderick
A recent performance issue case revolved around slow disk access times, and the impact that this had on Hyper-V and Windows in general.
The customer had identified that one of their SAN units was dramatically out performing another one, even though the slower unit should have been orders of magnitude faster – well, at least on paper!
As part of their tests IOMeter was used along with copying l… Read the rest ““Slow” File Copy Issues”
Link to the updated Hyper-V poster for 2008 R2 SP1 is here.
This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. It focuses on architecture, snapshots, live migration, virtual networking, storage, RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. You can use this poster in conjunction with the previously published Windows Server… Read the rest “Hyper-V 2008 R2 Architecture Poster (with SP1)”
Update: Newer firmware has been released since this was originally posted.
Ran into an interesting issue last week with a HP DL 585 Hyper-V host which had intermittent network connectivity over one of its defined virtual networks.
In the system event log the following warning was logged:
To resolve the issue, HP has released an updated NIC driver which is dated 11-11-2011.
The below is pasted from abo… Read the rest “Hyper-V Connectivity Issue”