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Hyper-V, an Introduction on simple-talk.com

mikeg — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:01:22 +0000

Very detailed introduction by Jaap Wesselius

http://www.simple-talk.com/exchange/exchange-articles/windows-server-virtualisation-hyper-v,-an-introduction/

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V was released in the summer of 2008 and is Microsoft first real hypervisor virtualization solution. It is not an emulated environment like Virtual Server or Virtual PC, but as a hypervisor solution it “sits” between the hardware and the Operating System. With the Integration Components installed you can fully use the functionality offered by Hyper-V. You have to secure the Parent Partition as much as possible to prevent compromising the complete system.
In the next articles I will talk more about the Hyper-V best practices, deploying Virtual Machines, using the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 and the “high availability” options and why these aren’t really high available in the current release of Hyper-V.

Posted in IT, Virtualization Tagged: Hyper-V, Virtual Server, vmware

We don’t do porno sites and a professional windows server administration :).

mikeg — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:47:52 +0000

We were asked by a client to find an offshore company to do 24×7 network/system monitoring/administration. Clients runs Windows network/servers. Title of this post is a quote from one of the responses. Very funny.

Posted in Funny, IT

"Quick Removal" of USB drives

mikeg — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:11:13 +0000

I’ve been using USB drives and thumb drives for some time, but this is the first time I ran across the following dialog. I tried to format an 80GB drive and got this message.

The interesting question is how do you enable “quick removal” and what limitations does it have.

Posted in IT Tagged: format, quick removal, usb dirves