Posts tagged Hyper-V
Clone virtual machines in Hyper-V
0As you know Hyper-V does not have an option to clone virtual machines, except when you use SCVMM. Because of this many admins need to use tricks so they don’t have to install and configure a new virtual machine from scratch every time they need a copy of Windows 7, or any other operating system. In this guide I’m going to show you two of the most popular ones, and they free. For this lab I have a Hyper-V server running on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, and a Windows 7 machine (reference machine) for cloning called Windows.7.Enterprise. (more…)
Convert VMware virtual machines to Hyper-V virtual machines
0I know that some of you out there have mixed virtual environments using Hyper-V and VMware, and I also know that allot of times you need to convert virtual machines from one platform to another. In this guide I’m going to show you how to convert virtual machines from a VMware platform to a Hyper-V platform using two products; one is free an the other one costs. The free one is called StarWind V2V Image Converter, and the paid one is Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). The version of SCVMM I am using for this guide is 2008 R2 with SP1. (more…)
Create and configure a Hyper-V Failover Cluster – Part2
0In the first part of this guide I showed you how to install Hyper-V in a cluster environment, and now it’s time to create our first High Available (HA) VM to see if the cluster works. Before we start creating the VM, we need to check if the cluster service assigned the correct volume for the quorum; sometimes is not assigned correctly. (more…)
Add Hyper-V hosts to System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2
3To be able to manage Hyper-V hosts in SCVMM first you need to add them to the VMM Server, and this guide is for those of you that have doubts about the process. Those Hyper-V hosts need to be part of the same forest or domain that VMM is part of. (more…)
Create and configure a Hyper-V Failover Cluster – Part1
0In this post I will show you step-by-step how create a Hyper-V Failover Cluster, so your virtual machines will never stop. For this environment I have on DC with StarWind iSCSI target installed (I know, I know… I’m using the domain controller as a iSCSI target, but it’s OK for demonstration purposes), and two Hyper-V servers (Node1 and Node2) already joined to the domain vkernel.local. If you want to go with other iSCSI target solutions be sure those softwares support iSCSI Persistent Reservation. (more…)
Install Hyper-V inside VMware Workstation 8
2I’ve bee waiting for this for a long time and is finally here, and you may ask why. Well I had to do allot of labs with Hyper-V and I just din not had the hardware, ok…the money for the hardware. Now I can create my labs without barriers on a single host using VMware Workstation, but a little hack is still needed for this. It can’t be done with previous versions on VMware Workstation only with version 8. (more…)
Install Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Role
0Starting with Windows Server 2008 Microsoft entered in the era of true Windows server virtualization with Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a level 1 virtualization software from Microsoft. I sad level one because it work directly with the hardware, meaning there is no operating system between Hyper-V and the hardware (this are also known as Hypervisors). Level two virtualization software is running on top of the operating system (VMware Workstation, Virtual Server, Virtual PC etc). (more…)
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