By Matthew Mattoon on Monday, June 15, 2009

All I have been getting a lot of questions offline lately for what I do to test the performance of Linux VMs with and without the Linux ICs.  So here is a quick write-up on how I do my tests.

 

Note:  These tests we done on a beefy system, however...

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By Matthew Mattoon on Saturday, May 30, 2009

Cheng Wei on the SCVMM product team has an excellent write-up on what Maintenance Mode actually means, and what takes place under the covers when you enable maintenance mode.

 

You can find the full article here.

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By Matthew Mattoon on Friday, May 29, 2009

The Windows Server Core Team has posted Microsoft Support highest reported issues pertaining to Hyper-V in Q3 of 2009.  I recommend reading through these before considering calling Microsoft Support and logging a call, which can save you some money...

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By Matthew Mattoon on Tuesday, May 19, 2009

This is a follow-up article which will allow you to get mouse control within the Guest OS without having to 'capture' your mouse. Now generally this is not necessary, since Linux in the Datacenter is generally without a GUI, however I use Hyper-V on my Laptop...

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By Matthew Mattoon on Tuesday, May 12, 2009

 In this article I am documenting the process for installing the Hyper-V Integration Components within a Ubuntu or Debian VM. I am specifically writing this for Ubuntu 8.04.2 and Debian 5, however I have additionally confirmed that this process works on both...

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By Matthew Mattoon on Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The following describes a scenario and resolution which I recently resolved.  The AffectedListName was a Mail-Enabled Security Group which was not able to be found in the GAL on any client using Cached-Exchange Mode.  

Our scenario was caused by...

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By Matthew Mattoon on Friday, January 23, 2009

OK, so I am deploying a new Virtualization Infrastructure.  In doing so I ran across a problem I had not seen before so I thought I would log the scenario, in order to be of help to someone some day...

My hardware was a Dell PowerEdge2950 with an...

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By Matthew Mattoon on Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The storage team has a post on how to automate the generation of DFS Replication Health Reports.

These reports include a massive amount of information, and can be incredibly helpful in determining the status of your replication.  Reports can also be...

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By Matthew Mattoon on Monday, November 10, 2008

Both the Evaluation and Workgroup Editions of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 can be upgraded to the Retail SKU.  Michael on the SCVMM team has a post describing the process.

Article can be found here.

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By Matthew Mattoon on Friday, September 26, 2008

Cheng has a post on using Distributed File System with System Center Virtual Machine Manager found here.  I have been running SCVMM with DFS-exposed libraries since...

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