I am a developer by trade.
I am looking to buy a server and OS/software in order to do
development/testing and am unsure as to what I should be considering.  
For an OS, I know there is 2008 Hyper-v and Virtual Server.  I don't know

Hi -
We have a W2K3 R2 Enterprise Edition server with a dual quad core Xeon and
16 GB ram running Virtual Server 2005 R2. It is running 5 Virtual Machines.
Every so often one of the virtual machines, always the same one, will hang.

Does anyone knows some tips that proved to improve Hyper-V performance? Like
disk performance I/O, CPU, etc...
I already have 2 Hyper-V installed but I would like to know if there's
something that I can do to improve performance on these servers. I did some

VS2005ER2 - is there a way to avoid having to repeat credentials every time I
navigate to a different Virtual machine?  thx.

Here's the issue.
I have a server being used for Hyper-V Server.  Currently, the server
has one NIC, I would like to add a second, so I can dedicate the gigabit
NIC to VMs.  When I first installed the server, I had an older 10/100

I'm running VS 2005 R2 on Windows 2008 Standard.
I am trying to set up a VM for Small Business Server 2008 but cannot install
to the VM.
I get an error "trying to install a 64 application on a CPU that is not

Maybe one of you guys can help me figure this out:
I have a VM that needs to have a fixed address and this VM exists on a host
server that has 2 Ethernet ports. 1 port is for the host server and the
other port is for the VMs. The host server has a fixed IP address and the VM

Hello friends,
This is Rishi here from INDIA. Actually, I'm facing a critical problem/error whenever I try to install RHEL-5 as a VM under VS 2005-R2 SP1 with latest update which also supports RED HAT O.S.
So, it's therefore reqsted you to all that kindly try to resolve the issue ...

So we've done some testing and setup some VMs and are pretty happy with what
we have seen so far.  Now the Next step is to get better Drives and or SAN
to support the VM Infrastructure.
Are there any articles or other recommendations that someone can point me to

It seems to be difficult to find information about the access to tape
peripherals in server virtual instance.
Can we see DLT or DAT (connected with SCSI or SAS) in virtual instance of a
server in order to use backup software (Arcserve or BE for example) ?

I have two quad-core intel processor on my hp dl380g5 server with Windows
2008 Enterprise and the Hyper-V role installed. In Hyper-V I can only see one
processor and that gives me up to 4 logical processors to allocate to a
virtual machine. Does anyone know why Hyper-V is not ...

I am totally unable to connect to the running machines on my Hyper-V enabled
Windows 2008 Standard machine. I can see that they are running via the little
thumbnail but Connect fails after some time of trying to connect.
Here are the steps I did:

I am trying to setup a file server as a guest OS on Hyper V. I would
also like to use the storage within the same machine (RAID 5
underneath). Can someone advice what is the normal approach to setup the
storage? Create a separate volume and make it as passthrough disk or

I need to set up 3 Virt. PC's. 1 - dns and domain controller. 2 others are
just server which will be later used for windows cluster installation.
It is testing setup.
I use company pc which has dedicated ip address and i try to avoid asking

The company i'm working is having 5 different sister companies, one of them
is connected thru fiber as its in seperate building. i want to create DC and
File server for each of the companies which is having near about 150 users
total.