I was in the middle of the setup of SCVMM 2008 R2 on a lab environment and got to the point that I needed to configure the Library Share Settings. I wanted the Library to be on a separate physical drive (1TB SATA drive) but it was really annoying to shutdown the VM, add the... read more
Begin with the End Well, I have this System X with VT capable processors so Installing Hyper-V should be pretty straightforward, I deployed tons of Hyper-Vs and never run into major problems more than well known remote management issues. This time I had to work a little harder, lets introduce the system IBM System x3650... read more
John Howard developed a script (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/HVRemote) to facilitate client and server configuration to be managed by HyperV, I found this script very useful and I this article is about configuring the client side. Below is a summary and how it worked for me. Summary Download the HVRemote.wsf script from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/HVRemote Allow DCOM access by running... read more
The experience of deploying an Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta was quite friendly. It took no more than 30 minutes to be logged for the first time. I run for a couple of minutes into problems when trying to manage the box remotely using the Hyper-V Manager, here is a track of my first steps... read more
Next week Southworks SRL will take part of the SMSE (Systems Management Server Enterprise) event series on Microsoft Argentina, targeted for MS EPG customers. From Southworks we will be involved as expert in the System Center family Solutions. I will be a speaker on sessions about: System Center Operations Manager, System Center Configuration Manager, System... read more
Here at Southworks we deployed many times from scratch a fully virtualized infrastructure and we have many lessons learnt so far. Since 2006, the industry is betting hard to workloads virtualization as it will address the increasing complexity IT environments are facing improving agility on the datacenter. In this post I will share a snapshot... read more