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Integration components: How we determine Windows Update applicability
Last week we began distributing integration components through Windows Update. In the November rollup, integration components were made available to Windows Server 2012/2008R2 virtual machines along...
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Announcing GA of Disaster Recovery to Azure - Purpose-Built for Branch...
Today, we are excited to announce the GA for Branch Office and SMB Disaster Recovery to Azure. Azure Site Recovery delivers a simpler, reliable & cost effective Disaster Recovery solution to...
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Replicate Azure Pack IaaS Workloads to Azure using ASR
A few months back, we announced Azure Site Recovery (ASR)’s integration with Azure Pack, which enabled our Service Providers to start offering Managed Disaster Recovery for IaaS Workloads using ASR and...
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Hyper-V receives Red Hat certification
If you run Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as a guest OS on Hyper-V, you will be interested to know that Red Hat certifies Hyper-V as a supported hypervisor for running RHEL. The support services you...
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Server Virtualization Sessions @ Build 2015
If you are interested in Server Virtualization and Server Application development - today is a good day to be at Build 2015 (or following it online).Two big sessions to recommend are:Nano Server: A...
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Linux Integration Services 4.0 Announcement
IntroductionWe are pleased to announce the release of Linux Integration Services (LIS) version 4.0. As part of this release we have expanded the access to Hyper-V features and performance to the latest...
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Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V Containers Debut at Ignite and Build
Build and Ignite were packed with information about Windows Server Containers (announced in October) and Hyper-V Containers (announced in April). We also launched the official Windows containers...
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Hyper-V at Ignite
Ignite 2015 was full of new information about Hyper-V. Check out some of the many talks about (or related to) Hyper-V. I'm sure I inevitably missed a few talks/interviews. If there are any great...
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PowerShell Direct – Running PowerShell inside a virtual machine from the...
At Ignite we announced PowerShell Direct, and briefly demoed it’s capabilities in the “What’s New in Hyper-V” session. This is a follow up so you can get started using PowerShell Direct in your own...
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When to use Hyper-V Dynamic Memory versus Runtime Memory Resize
Starting in Windows 10/Windows Server Technical Preview, Hyper-V allows you to resize virtual machine memory without shutting down the virtual machine. You might be thinking, “Hyper-V already has...
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Integration components available for virtual machines not connected to...
In Technical Preview, Hyper-V began delivering integration components through Windows Update (see blog for more information).Pushing updates through Windows Update was a good first step -- it is the...
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Linux Integration Services 4.0 Update
We are pleased to announce an update to Linux Integration Services (LIS) version 4.0: version 4.0.11. This updated release expands to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7, CentOS 6.7, and Oracle Linux Red Hat...
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Virtual Machine Storage Resiliency in Windows Server 2016
We live in an imperfect world, where things will go wrong. When they do, you need a private cloud which is designed to be highly available and resilient to failures in the environment. In today’s...
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Windows Insider Preview: Nested Virtualization
Earlier in the year, we announced that we will be building nested virtualization so that people could run Hyper-V Containers in Hyper-V virtual machines.In preparation for the first public preview of...
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PSA: VMs with saved state from builds 10560-10567 will not restore on 10568...
Windows Insiders might hit a bug if they try to restore a VM with recent saved state. This is especially true for VMs created on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 hosts. We recommend that you take action...
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Announcing the release of Hyper-V Containers in Windows Server 2016 Technical...
Today marks an exciting moment on the journey to bring world class container technologies and options to our customers. With the release of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4, we’re excited to...
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Discrete Device Assignment -- Description and background
With Windows Server 2016, we're introducing a new feature, called Discrete Device Assignment, in Hyper-V. Users can now take some of the PCI Express devices in their systems and pass them through...
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Discrete Device Assignment -- Machines and devices
In my last post, I talked about a new feature of Windows Server 2016, Discrete Device Assignment. This post will discuss the machines and devices necessary for making this feature work.First, we're not...
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Discrete Device Assignment -- GPUs
This is the third post in a four part series. My previous two blog posts talked about Discrete Device Assignment (link) and the machines and devices necessary (link) to make it work in Windows Server...
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Discrete Device Assignment -- Guests and Linux
In my previous three posts, I outlined a new feature in Windows Server 2016 TP4 called Discrete Device Assignment. This post talks about support for Linux guest VMs, and it’s more of a description of...
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