Archive for September, 2009

Running Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 from USB

Having read about ESXi which can be bought from Dell / HP in an embedded manner, which lets you boot without harddrive I decided to go on the journey to accomplish the same thing with Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. The closest I got to an “embedded” storage thingie was a Kingston USB-stick with 16 GB of storage on it.… Read the rest

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Server Core – Why you should care about it

Why you should care about it? Well, I think that in the future most of your server workloads will be on one of these babies. No GUI since you won’t need it. All your management will be remote anyway, either through MMC, WinRS or even better automated through System Center Operations Manager.… Read the rest

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