Tag Archives: Hyper-V

Hyper-V/RHEL7.4: Hang When Thaw on Microsoft Hyper-V

I came across this bug report from RedHat when researching and issue where our newly deployed RHEL 7.4 VMs on Hyper-V would go into a hang state at times during the host backup process.  Lots to good work done here … Continue reading

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Latest Article – Preserve Hyper-V security from Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

A complementary article to my last blog post here, but this time focusing on how to protect Hyper-V VMs from the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities have admins scrambling for safety, and virtualization presents a particular … Continue reading

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Hyper-V and Spectre/Meltdown: Protecting Your Hosts – Do This!

There is a lot of information swirling around out there on what to do with the latest Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities. Whereas I can’t tell you how to solve the vulnerabilities for for every Hardware and Operating System combination, I can tell … Continue reading

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2015 Microsoft Virtual MVP Conference – Session Highlight #4

Another session by Marcos and Dave that you shouldn’t miss.  Focusing on Best Practices for virtualizing and managing Sharepoint 2013, it will also bring overall best practices for virtualizing with Hyper-V and using System Center 2012 R2.  These guys have … Continue reading

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2015 Microsoft Virtual MVP Conference – Session Highlight #2

Another great session given by two very active and energetic MVPs.  This is more likely to be more like a comedy session.  With any technology there are issues you will run into, adjustments that can be made to increase performance … Continue reading

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2015 Microsoft Virtual MVP Conference–Session Highlight #1

  The MVP Virtual Conference is coming on May 14th and May 15th.  Over 5000 people have already registered for the event with content driven by Microsoft MVPs in three main tracks, IT Pro, Developer, and Consumer.  For the next … Continue reading

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PowerShell Snip of the Week (Get-SCVirutalNetworkAdapter)

  Ben Armstrong recently posted a method on Listing all the IP Addresses used by VMs.  The Method was pretty straight forward and gave back some great information.  It got me thinking of how enterprise customers could do this using … Continue reading

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PowerShell Snip of the Week – (Get-VMIntegrationService)

Finding the status of a VMs or all your VMs Integration Components can be a very useful troubleshooting tool when you are having various VM management issues.  Examples could be that VMs that have the correct Integration Components versions are … Continue reading

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PowerShell Snip of the Week (Get-WinEvent)

VMs that went into Saved State in the Last Day During the migration of VMs to a Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 environment you may find that some of your VMs go in to Saved State when the backup … Continue reading

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PowerShell Snip of the Week (SCVMM)

  Here is this weeks PowerShell Snip of the Week. Using Get-VirtualNetworkAdapter. When looking into a recent issue with a NIC Team on a host, I had a need for a quick way to identify which VMs were using a … Continue reading

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