October 23, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Ok, so far we have created, modified, and added resources (memory, processor, disks, and network) to virtual machines. Now, we want to take that information and build a complete virtual machine. # Set up variables $VHD = "f:\VHDs\win2k8.vhd" $GuestVM =...
October 23, 2009 | In: Technology
AAAAHHHHHH! Just when I think I have decided on the right eBook reader for me, another one comes out with bigger and better features that made me revisit my earlier research. First, I looked through several readers, but it really came down to Sony's and...
October 22, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Last time I looked at scripting memory resource creating. Today, I want to look at the final individual component, network resources. These network resources are virtual network interfaces that are connected to a virtual switch. A virtual network...
October 19, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Last time I looked at building onto our WMI automation script with processor creation. Today, I want to cover how to add memory resources into the script. Once again, I will take advantage of the existing patterns for creating this script. # Set up...
October 16, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Last time I covered automatic Hyper-V through WMI for virtual disks. Now, I want to cover how to automate the creation of processor resources. One thing you will notice is that the pattern used to create virtual disks through WMI will be very similar...
October 15, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
I have built my fair share of VMs using both Hyper-V Manager and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM), but as an engineer, I wanted a way to build multiple VMs without the repetitive clicking involved in doing so within the graphical tools. Fortunately,...
October 7, 2009 | In: VMWare
Not sure if this is a common issue or if I just hit a perfect storm with an ESX host and a Windows guest OS. Here is how it played out…… We had an application that checks the time and date stamps between its host server and the database server that it...
October 7, 2009 | In: Windows
Now that we are a couple of weeks away from the official retail launch date of Windows 7, I thought I would list out some of my favorite and most used keyboard shortcuts in this new operating system from Microsoft. For me, the most used are grouped into...