An Updated Hyper-V Monitor Vista/7 Gadget And The Hyper-V Nehalem Update Status Is Good

The server we were having a great deal of issues with has been running since yesterday afternoon with no further freezes.

• Server’s Having A Bad Day When … CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT (101)

It looks as though version 4 of the update has truly dealt with the timing issue Hyper-V has with the Nehalem processors.

Also, the Windows sidebar gadget we have mentioned in the past has received a substantial update:

In addition to showing the available RAM on the Hyper-V server, we now see the CPU utilization as well as which VMs have Integration Services installed (green) and which ones do not (gold).

We also have the ability to TS into the Hyper-V box to manage it, open a VM direct desktop session, and manage the VM’s power status among other things.

This tool is truly useful for at-a-glance views of all Hyper-V servers running on the network. Shown is the one server, we just have not had the time to add the others we also have on our network.

• MINDRE.NET Tore Lervik- Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

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A Vista Gadget Funny

It’s Friday, time to go home and one last task to accomplish was the update of this workstation’s ATI Catalyst drivers to the newest version since it started choking on them yesterday.

So, after the update reboot, we must have hit hyper-space, because we ain’t in Kansas anymore Toto:

A blue sun!

BTW, that –5 Celsius is nice to see since it was –25 Celsius yesterday!

Welcome to the Andromeda Galaxy!

Time to go home. Will fix another day. :)

Have a great weekend!

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists

*All Mac on SBS posts will not be written on a Mac until we replace our now missing iMac!

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Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar Updated

This is a neat little tool:

Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar

We can start, stop, reset VMs on Hyper-V, or even double click on one to bring up a VM console session.

It is a really kewl tool!!

Some of its features from Tore’s blog:

• Hyper-V Monitor title
  Double click on the title to launch the Hyper-V Manager*.
• Host title
  Double click on the host title to launch a new Remote Desktop connection to the host.
• Host title RAM amount
  Displays the RAM amount the host has left.
• VM title
  Double click to launch VMConnect* to the VM.
• VM Status
  Displaying the status of the VM in both color and text.
• VM Control
  Hover over the status to get a set of buttons for the current VM. (Start, Turn Off, Shut Down and Save)
• Large Size (Undocked)
  You can make the gadget bigger by using the Large Size (Windows 7) or Undock it from the sidebar (Vista).

It can be had from here: MINDRE.NET Tore Lervik: Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar.

Our original post: Hyper-V Gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists

*All Mac on SBS posts will not be written on a Mac until we replace our now missing iMac!

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Hyper-V Gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar

We manage a number of internal Server Core Hyper-V servers as well as client based Hyper-V servers.

Up to now, we have been using the Remote Server Administrator Tools (RSAT x86 and RSAT x64) on Windows Vista SP1 to manage them.

One of the things that was missing with RSAT was an at-a-glance setup for our Hyper-V systems.

We now have one: the Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar by Tore Lervik.

Windows Vista Hyper-v Monitor

We have the ability to add all of our Hyper-V instances to the monitor, configure the user that will authenticate to them, as well as perform some basic VM management like turning them on and off.

This is an excellent little gadget to have.

Thanks to the Virtual PC Guy for the tip: Hyper-V Sidebar Gadget.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists

*All Mac on SBS posts are posted on our in-house iMac via the Safari Web browser.