Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Failover Clustering Options

There are many ways to implement Windows Server Failover Clustering with Hyper-V. I could actually find five unique methods to do it. Some of them will actually not give you a fully fault-tolerant solution, but most of them actually make sense in specific scenarios (even if only for demonstrations). In any case, just trying to … Continue reading Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Failover Clustering Options →

Exposing native SCSI as virtual IDE in Hyper-V. Should you tell Virginia that there is a SAN?

I hear a lot of comments about the fact that Hyper-V can expose SCSI disks (either directly attached SCSI disks or LUNs on SAN) to child partitions (also known as guests) as IDE disks. Before you go telling little Virginia that, “Yes, there is a SAN”, you might want to consider how abstracting that fact … Continue reading Exposing native SCSI as virtual IDE in Hyper-V. Should you tell Virginia that there is a SAN? →

SNW Demo: Windows Server 2008 Core, Hyper-V and Failover Clustering – with screenshots

I spent last week in Orlando, Florida, working at the Microsoft booth in the Storage Networking World. I delivered one of the demos there and my demo included the following technologies: Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 iSCSI Software Target Windows Server 2008 Core Install Windows Server 2008 iSCSI Initiator Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 … Continue reading SNW Demo: Windows Server 2008 Core, Hyper-V and Failover Clustering – with screenshots →

SNW Demo: Windows Server 2008 Core, Hyper-V and Failover Clustering

I will be working at the Microsoft booth in the Storage Networking World next week in Orlando, Florida. I will deliver one of the demos there and my demo includes the following technologies: Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 iSCSI Software Target Windows Server 2008 Core Install Windows Server 2008 iSCSI Initiator Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Windows … Continue reading SNW Demo: Windows Server 2008 Core, Hyper-V and Failover Clustering →

More on Storage Options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, you can expose storage to a Hyper-V guest in many different ways. After getting some feedback to that initial post, there are two frequent comments that I wanted to address. You can boot a Hyper-V guest from an iSCSI LUN I wanted to highlight that you can … Continue reading More on Storage Options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V →

Storage options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V has been in public beta for a while now and lots of people have been experimenting with it. One aspect that I am focusing on is storage for those virtualized environments and more specifically the options related to SAN storage. Virtualization terminology Before we start, I wanted to define some terms … Continue reading Storage options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V →

Installing Hyper-V on my HP notebook

I finally took the time to install Windows Server 2008 and the Hyper-V beta on one of my two notebooks.One important step was to confirm that it would support the required CPU technologies.As you probably know, Hyper-V requires a 64-bit (x64) CPU with hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT or AMD-V). First, I needed to confirm exactly … Continue reading Installing Hyper-V on my HP notebook →