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Windows server 2012 Hyper-V on VmWare ESX 5 and Workstation
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Hyper-V,
Windows SErver 2012
I Was trying to install Hyper-V role on VMware workstation and it seems am no longer allowed to do so.
You will endup with a warning message Hypervisor already running
Edited the cloned VM's vmx file, Add the 4 entries:
You will endup with a warning message Hypervisor already running
Edited the cloned VM's vmx file, Add the 4 entries:
mce.enable = TRUE
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = FALSE
featMask.vm.hv.capable =
"Min:1"
vhv.enable = TRUE
OR ALternatively you can also do the below
Search for guestOS and change the entry as below
guestOS = "winhyperv"Tuesday, May 22, 2012
What's new Windows 8
In honor of Windows 8, here are top
8 questions that Windows 8 has an answer to.
Question 1: Why can’t I have Hyper-V on my laptop? What ever
happened to Virtual PC?
Client Hyper-V, full featured
virtualization software, is finally coming to workstations in Windows 8! Client Hyper-V is installed as a feature, so you don’t have
to buy it separately. It includes all of the features that you expect from your
virtualization software: virtual networking, shared drives, and most
importantly, snapshots.
You can also use the advanced
features of Hyper-V on your installation of Windows 8 desktop. For example,
Client Hyper-V allows you to automate your virtual environment using PowerShell,
and if you’ve got a multipoint touch-enabled device that you’re running client
Hyper-V on, you can also use your touch screen on your VMs.
Question 2: When will I be able to use my own tablet as my
work computer?
One of the key devices Windows 8 has
been aimed at is the tablet. It’s touch ready, and ready for you to take it
with you. It has also been designed to help IT departments manage the huge rush
of personal devices into the workplace. The consumerization of IT is making
end-users the champions of new technology devices, a role that was previously
held by the IT staff.
Determining whether or not a
computer is yours, or one you’re just using temporarily, is handled by the
Windows 8 feature “User Device Affinity.” User device affinity uses usage
percentage, amount of time logged in, and number of times logged in to
determine if the computer belongs to you enough to call it “your computer.” If
it is the computer that you usually use, regardless of who actually owns the
computer, your Windows 8 tablet will identify it as a primary device. A new
feature in System Center Configuration Manager 2012 allows administrators to
target those primary devices for software installations, whether they are
company owned or employee owned.
Question 3: How can my Blu-Ray player and TV “boot up” in
under a second, but my computer still takes a full minute?
Windows 8 is faster overall, and in
many areas. One area in particular where it is dramatically improved is in its
startup time. Using partial hibernation, which stores a set of system files and
RAM on the hard drive (but not all of the running programs and RAM that would
be used in a full hibernation), Windows 8 systems have been booting up from
a cold start in under 10 seconds. Solid State Drives report it even faster,
almost instantly.
Question 4: Why can’t I take my programs with me to whatever
computer I’m at?
Brand new with Windows 8 is Windows
To Go. Windows To Go allows IT staff to load a full version of Windows 8 on
a USB drive, including the operating system, personal data, and installed
programs!
There are some differences in using
Windows To Go: You’re presented with a pre-boot password prompt; If you remove
the USB device, the computer freezes in place until the USB device is plugged
back in; and booting into your Windows To Go disables hard drives on the
physical computer to help prevent your data from being compromised.
Question 5: Where is the factory reset button?
If you’ve wished that your HP or
Dell PC came with a factory reset button like your home wireless router does,
you’ll be happy to see that Windows 8 provides two features that provide
functionality for doing just that: Reset and Refresh. Both are now accessible
from the Control Panel metro app, and both will fix problems with your PC. Reset
takes it back to the day it was purchased: all apps are gone and all user data
is gone. Refresh performs a full reinstall of Windows, but saves your user
data, most of your preferences, and saves your installed metro apps.
Question 6: Why does malware start on a PC before
anti-malware does?
In Windows 8, there looks to be some
great strides taken to prevent malware that starts early in the boot process
from being able to mess up your system. Trusted Boot in Windows 8 digitally
signs your bootup environment, validating the entire process. The loading
of anti-malware software is one of the earliest actions performed by Windows 8,
so it is running before malware even has a chance to start.
Question 7: How can the world’s largest software company not
have an app store?
Microsoft finally reveals an App
store on their desktop operating system with Windows 8. Microsoft has already had an app marketplace that is still
used with Windows Phone (via Zune software), but you can now have apps
purchased, stored, and delivered directly to your desktops, laptops, and
tablets running Windows 8.
Question 8: Why in the world can I not mount an ISO on a
Windows machine?
Now, after many years that I have
been asking this question, you can finally mount ISOs in Windows 8 as part
of the operating system. There are no third party utilities required. You
can also mount VHDs (Virtual Hard Disks) natively in Windows 8.
ISOs show up as a new CD or DVD drive, while VHD shows up as
a new hard drive. You can access either ISOs or VHDs by either double-clicking
them, right clicking them and selecting “mount,” or by selecting the “mount”
from the ribbon in Windows Explorer.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
SDM Interview...!!
What are the Roles & Responsibilities of an SDM? A) The main responsibilities of SDM is to deliver agreed deliverables as per service level agreements with help of available resources in the given budget.
Responsibilities: daily track of pit falls in service delivery, identifying improvement areas, interacting clients or customers on regular basis to touch base status on existing complaints. Operation review meetings with team members to identify the challenging areas and brainstorming them in the group. Maintaining a dash board
How will you ensure that you meet the SLA, in a critical situation of less number of resources and more number of Incidents/Problems/Requests to support? A) Expect the unexpected situation:- Prioritize the tasks on the table. Call for a meeting and put forward the severity of each task to the team. If possible dedicate one or two members on high priority task and get the work going with other members. Else, get every one as per task priorities.
What is most important role of an SDM which is the first one you will be measured against during Appraisals? A) SLA should be the first and primary target. SDM is there to run the show Service Level rest comes next. Once that metric is in Red in the dashboard it is very difficult to face the customer.
What is the difference between an Account Manager and a Service Delivery Manager? A) Account Manager is the first point of contact for customer no matter whether it is a problem with product, service, deal closing, offers etc…. Where as SDM is whole and sole responsible in delivering what is customer is supposed to get. It includes satisfaction in using the product, satisfaction in answering his questions or dealing with the complaints raised, giving extra mile support, Keeping him updated with at every stage in the service delivery process, etc… above all making him feel more comfortable in using the service. I feel SDM plays a vital role in customer retention and AM plays a key role in coordinating the resources for customer.
Change Scenario: The client is pushing you to implement the permamnet fix "RFC" during the upcoming weekend. The internal team is occupied and do not have Bandwidth to support the change. How you will coordinate and ensure the client is also happy and the Internal team is also happy by supporting you? A) Resource crunch is a major problem yet, as a manager I would like to mitigate the situation by first speaking with the team about the time required for permanent fix and the are fair chances for implementing on upcoming weekend. After having a confirmed time frame I will start negotiating with client buying time to implement the fix. Once accepted, I will deliver it as promised.
Motivational Scenario: Levergaed support team is demotivated to the extent of ghoofing up even the password re-set of AD. How will you ensure they provide you support in bringign up the CSAT? (The issue is not on the skills and entirely the employee morale is down) A) Constant team meetings is required to boost their morale….Not like an official one-to-one rather just team hurdles before the start of day or a small pep talk with the folks, will surely results in +ve trend. These hurdles can be used for just praising them on their good work, their contribution to team and company, rewarding them by giving free bees. Explaining them how we are progressing on the metrics (positive metrics) also point the need for more attention on the important metrics.
Responsibilities: daily track of pit falls in service delivery, identifying improvement areas, interacting clients or customers on regular basis to touch base status on existing complaints. Operation review meetings with team members to identify the challenging areas and brainstorming them in the group. Maintaining a dash board
How will you ensure that you meet the SLA, in a critical situation of less number of resources and more number of Incidents/Problems/Requests to support? A) Expect the unexpected situation:- Prioritize the tasks on the table. Call for a meeting and put forward the severity of each task to the team. If possible dedicate one or two members on high priority task and get the work going with other members. Else, get every one as per task priorities.
What is most important role of an SDM which is the first one you will be measured against during Appraisals? A) SLA should be the first and primary target. SDM is there to run the show Service Level rest comes next. Once that metric is in Red in the dashboard it is very difficult to face the customer.
What is the difference between an Account Manager and a Service Delivery Manager? A) Account Manager is the first point of contact for customer no matter whether it is a problem with product, service, deal closing, offers etc…. Where as SDM is whole and sole responsible in delivering what is customer is supposed to get. It includes satisfaction in using the product, satisfaction in answering his questions or dealing with the complaints raised, giving extra mile support, Keeping him updated with at every stage in the service delivery process, etc… above all making him feel more comfortable in using the service. I feel SDM plays a vital role in customer retention and AM plays a key role in coordinating the resources for customer.
Change Scenario: The client is pushing you to implement the permamnet fix "RFC" during the upcoming weekend. The internal team is occupied and do not have Bandwidth to support the change. How you will coordinate and ensure the client is also happy and the Internal team is also happy by supporting you? A) Resource crunch is a major problem yet, as a manager I would like to mitigate the situation by first speaking with the team about the time required for permanent fix and the are fair chances for implementing on upcoming weekend. After having a confirmed time frame I will start negotiating with client buying time to implement the fix. Once accepted, I will deliver it as promised.
Motivational Scenario: Levergaed support team is demotivated to the extent of ghoofing up even the password re-set of AD. How will you ensure they provide you support in bringign up the CSAT? (The issue is not on the skills and entirely the employee morale is down) A) Constant team meetings is required to boost their morale….Not like an official one-to-one rather just team hurdles before the start of day or a small pep talk with the folks, will surely results in +ve trend. These hurdles can be used for just praising them on their good work, their contribution to team and company, rewarding them by giving free bees. Explaining them how we are progressing on the metrics (positive metrics) also point the need for more attention on the important metrics.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Best Practice Analysers 2011
Let Premier Support Ireland help you welcome in the new year with problem free enterprise platforms!
Best Practice Analysers are free tools available for most Microsoft Enterprise products and they are used to determine the overall health of your platform.
Best Practice Analysers are free tools available for most Microsoft Enterprise products and they are used to determine the overall health of your platform.
Best Practice Analysers are free tools available for most Microsoft Enterprise products and they are used to determine the overall health of your platform. The tools perform read only scans against your environment’s servers and identify items that do not conform to Microsoft best practices. They should be run on a regular basis as part of your standard operations maintenance plan. Browse the following groups below to find the platform and analyser you need and follow the links provided to get started. After running the analyser, you will be able to tell if there are areas which need resolution in order to have fully optimised use of that platform. If you'd like some Premier Support help to achieve resolution, contact your Technical Account Manager so they can help you decide on the best Premier Support solution available (i.e. Logging a Case, scheduling a Workshop or onsite assessment, etc).
Windows Server
- Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool (reads performance monitor counter logs and analyses it using known thresholds)
SQL
Exchange and Unified Communications
Sharepoint, Project Server and Office System
- Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Includes Project Server 2007)
Forefront, ISA and Security
Developer
Miscellaneous (Small Business Server, Mobile Device Manager, Commerce Server, Biztalk)
Let your Premier Support Ireland team know how you get on with these tools and how we can best help you reach your IT goals in 2011!
P2V with Disk2VHD–Part 1 & Part 2
P2V with Disk2VHD–Part 1
Migrating a physical machine to a virtual machine can be done a number of ways. You can use System Center Virtual Machine Manager, PlateSpin PowerConvert or a host of other tools. One of those tools is the free Disk2VHD tool from Sysinternals. Disk2VHD will take a snapshot of a running machine and write it to a VHD that you can boot up in Hyper-V (or Virtual PC). The process is pretty straight forward and in Part 1 we will capture the source machine.
You will need to download Disk2VHD and once you have unzip it. At that point you have two options, the command line or the GUI. To convert using the command line run the following command:
disk2vhd.exe <SOURCE_DRIVE_LETTER> <PATH_TO_VHD>
As an example to capture the C: drive and write it to C:\disk2vhd\ISA2006.vhd you would run the following command:
disk2vhd.exe C: C:\Disk2VHD\ISA2006.vhd
In the command line you can replace C: with a * to capture all drives in the system. The other option is to use the GUI. To do so launch Disk2VHD.exe and you will see the following window:
Simply check the box next to the drive(s) you wish to capture, enter the path to save the file too and click Create. If you are going to load the VHD in Virtual PC you will need to check the box “Prepare for use in Virtual PC”. This will correct the HAL and is only required with Windows XP/2003 operating systems.
Part 2 will take a look at loading the VHD in a new virtual machine.
You will need to download Disk2VHD and once you have unzip it. At that point you have two options, the command line or the GUI. To convert using the command line run the following command:
disk2vhd.exe <SOURCE_DRIVE_LETTER> <PATH_TO_VHD>
As an example to capture the C: drive and write it to C:\disk2vhd\ISA2006.vhd you would run the following command:
disk2vhd.exe C: C:\Disk2VHD\ISA2006.vhd
In the command line you can replace C: with a * to capture all drives in the system. The other option is to use the GUI. To do so launch Disk2VHD.exe and you will see the following window:
Simply check the box next to the drive(s) you wish to capture, enter the path to save the file too and click Create. If you are going to load the VHD in Virtual PC you will need to check the box “Prepare for use in Virtual PC”. This will correct the HAL and is only required with Windows XP/2003 operating systems.
Part 2 will take a look at loading the VHD in a new virtual machine.
P2V with Disk2VHD - Part 2
Migrating a physical machine to a virtual machine can be done a number of ways. You can use System Center Virtual Machine Manager, PlateSpin PowerConvert or a host of other tools. One of those tools is the free Disk2VHD tool from Sysinternals. Disk2VHD will take a snapshot of a running machine and write it to a VHD that you can boot up in Hyper-V (or Virtual PC). The process is pretty straight forward and in Part 1 we captured the source machine. In part 2 we will bring it online in Hyper-V.
With the VHD copied to the Hyper-V Server we simply have to create a new virtual machine. When you get to the Connect Virtual Hard Disk screen simply select the VHD you captured with Disk2VHD.
You will have to make sure all the hardware settings are similar. If you had 4GB of memory on the physical machine the virtual machine will need the same. There are no sizing differences between the physical and virtual machine. You will also need to make sure your CPU settings are similar and that you have the same number of NICs as the physical machine had.
Once that is all verified you can boot the system. Leave the NICs disconnected for now until you verify the system is working, then take the old system offline, connect the NICs and you are ready to roll! Once the VM boots you will need to install/upgrade the Hyper-V Integration Components (depending on the source OS).
With the VHD copied to the Hyper-V Server we simply have to create a new virtual machine. When you get to the Connect Virtual Hard Disk screen simply select the VHD you captured with Disk2VHD.
You will have to make sure all the hardware settings are similar. If you had 4GB of memory on the physical machine the virtual machine will need the same. There are no sizing differences between the physical and virtual machine. You will also need to make sure your CPU settings are similar and that you have the same number of NICs as the physical machine had.
Once that is all verified you can boot the system. Leave the NICs disconnected for now until you verify the system is working, then take the old system offline, connect the NICs and you are ready to roll! Once the VM boots you will need to install/upgrade the Hyper-V Integration Components (depending on the source OS).
Monday, December 27, 2010
Using Opalis automating patching Hyper-V Clusters
Using Opalis automating patching Hyper-V Clusters
Great Blog about using Opalis in real world scenarios
http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2010/11/22/opalis-6-3-automating-hyper-v-cluster-patching-using-the-configuration-manager-ip-part-1.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2010/12/01/opalis-6-3-automating-hyper-v-cluster-patching-using-the-configuration-manager-ip-part-2.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2010/12/02/opalis-6-3-automating-hyper-v-cluster-patching-using-the-configuration-manager-ip-part-3.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2010/11/22/opalis-6-3-automating-hyper-v-cluster-patching-using-the-configuration-manager-ip-part-1.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2010/12/01/opalis-6-3-automating-hyper-v-cluster-patching-using-the-configuration-manager-ip-part-2.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2010/12/02/opalis-6-3-automating-hyper-v-cluster-patching-using-the-configuration-manager-ip-part-3.aspx
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