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Using Powershell to managed Hyper-V

Media.PostedBy: Adam Bomb | Jul 2nd @ 12:01 AM
Today wraps up our Hyper-V launch coverage with this interview I did at TechEd with John Kelbley and Alex Lash.   These guys show us a heap of great tricks for managing your Hyper-V machines using Powershell, and introduce us to a bunch of shortcuts that allow even a non-coder to put together some impressive scripts.  In fact, all the demos they do in this interview they put together in about 15 minutes before we started recording.
Here's a roundup of some of the resources they reference:
James O'Neill's blog
Power Gadgets
Powershell scriptomatic

p.s.  If you are attending TechEd and happen to run in to John, ask him about the party list.  Then prepare for some late nights out.
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How MSIT does server Virtualization and Hyper-V Part 2

Media.PostedBy: David Tesar | Jul 1st @ 5:14 PM

In this interview we met up with Devin Murray (Group Manager) and David Lef (Technology Architect) who are in charge of implementing virtualization within Microsoft.  They've been running Hyper-V since it was in Beta in 2007 and have been running Hyper-V in production since January 2008.  Watch Part 1 first.

In Part 2 of this interview, we cover the following topics:

  • Challenges they've faced in deploying and recommendations
  • [2:23] - What their thinking is around a future datacenter to address those challenges
  • [4:43] - Technical details on the future datacenter
  • [9:29] - What workloads would this infrastructure support
  • [13:15] - Branch office efforts around virtualization
  • [16:05] - How long we've been running Hyper-V, will we be able to have 100% of our servers virtualized in the future, and what is the net impact of running virtual server 2005 R2 vs Hyper-V.

    • Read more information about MSIT's virtualization strategy.
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    How Microsoft IT does server Virtualization and Hyper-V

    Media.PostedBy: David Tesar | Jul 1st @ 8:00 AM

    In this interview we met up with Devin Murray (Group Manager) and David Lef (Technology Architect) who are in charge of implementing virtualization within Microsoft.  They've been running Hyper-V since it was in Beta in 2007 and have been running Hyper-V in production since January 2008.  In this interview, we cover the following topics:

    • History behind why and when we started implementing virtualization in the environment and what challenges we had.
    • [6:22] - Number of servers virtualized in Microsoft's environment and goals of what percentage desired to be virtualized
    • [8:07] - Net business impact and how the team manages this area of the business
    • [9:54] - Current high availability stats (how many 9's) and how to make this higher
    • [12:45] - Configuration of virtualization environment
      • High availability with Hyper-V
      • Why they determined the sweet spot was an 8 node cluster
      • [18:18] - Decision points between using VHDs versus Pass-through disks
      • [19:45] - What workloads he wouldn't recommend using one disk type versus another in regards to performance
      • Downtime they're seeing with quick migration

    Watch Part 2 here.
    Read more information about MSIT's virtualization strategy.
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    TechNet Radio: Microsoft Forefront Client Security

    Media.PostedBy: Eric Ostrowski | Jun 25th @ 11:23 AM

    Listen to this episode of TechNet Radio and learn more about Microsoft Forefront Client Security. We discuss how Forefront Client Security improves overall performance and also talk about support for Hyper-V.
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    Tricks of the Windows Vista Masters - J. Peter Bruzzese

    Media.PostedBy: Adam Bomb | Jun 25th @ 12:01 AM
    Another busy guy at TechEd, J. Peter Bruzzese took time away from the ClipTraining partner booth and his own breakout sessions to talk with me about his latest book, "Tricks of the Windows Vista Masters."  He told me the story of where the secrets in the book came from, and shared a couple of his favorites with me.
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