Where Did My Disk Space Go? – Troubleshooting Virtual Machine Storage Issues in Hyper-V With Hyper-V, it is very easy to over commit your storage space by creating dynamic VHD files. It is also easy to consume all of your available storage by creating multiple, parallel snapshots, creating large fixed VHD files, and letting your dynamic VHD files expand as the guest operating systems demand more space. What happens when you hit the limit on your storage devices? Your virtual machines are placed into the dreaded “Paused Critical” or “Major Failure” states. According to Virtual PC Guy : If we …

Savision works with IT environments that are looking for faster ways to solve their problems. And while we are not bound by one industry or vertical, Savision is collaborating with more and more Hospital and Healthcare customers. It makes sense. Hospitals are becoming increasingly more reliant on technology, and if their machines or applications are down — the results could be devastating. I recently got the chance to chat with Errol Small, Technical Services Manager at Healthcare Partners and Rogee Fe de Leon, Technical Services Manager at Maimonides Medical Center about the unique challenges they face, and how Live Maps …

Sometimes, when trying to remove a Management Pack from your Operations Manager through the Administration pane of the Operations Console, the following error dialog is presented: This situation only occurs when one or more object have (previously) been added to a Live Maps view that are defined in the Management Pack that you want to delete. When you follow the suggestion as presented in the dialog above, all Live Maps views that have been created will be deleted. Obviously, in most situations this is not what we want as this would enforce us to recreate all our Live Maps views from …

As management tools for virtualization mature, the time and effort required to spin up a new virtual machine has decreased. And with Microsoft’s recent changes to their licensing model – eliminating the OS license fee for virtual machines – the monetary expense has decreased as well. From the perspective of application administrators, the cost of a virtual machine has become effectively zero. By now, everyone is likely familiar with the term “virtual machine sprawl”. Unfortunately, the problem is likely to worsen as investment in virtualization increases. Over time, virtual machines that are no longer used remain in the environment, and …