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 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...
July 2, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
In Part I, I discussed my hardware and my general concept of what I was going to build. Part II discussed adding the Hyper-V Role to a Windows Server 2008 machine to become the host. Part III will cover some different ways of creating VMs for use in...
July 2, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Now that I have had a chance to get the rig built from Part I and things installed, let me take Part II and step it out. One thing to note on this build. I chose to go with a Full Standard installation of Windows Server 2008 R2. I could have gone with...
June 23, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Well, I decided after reading through Andrew Connell’s post about his Hyper-V system build along with Bob Fox’s post about his build for Hyper-V, that I needed to just get on it and build up mine. For my build, I am taking something of a hybrid...
June 20, 2009 | In: Virtualization
Saw this over on Slashdot. Seriously, Oracle needs to get a grip on their virtualization practice.Check this post Oracle Kills Virtual Iron from Slashdot:rhathar writes in with news that Oracle is killing off the products of Virtual Iron, a month after...