Tag Archives: Hyper-V

StarWind iSCSI Server Software now Free

And in a usable format (unlimited connections + 2TB data store) WooHooo!! This is very good news, and with my experience before implementing StarWinds on top of MS Windows, it worked but was limited by some very tight restrictions (2 GB max storage and 1 connection) which made it unusable for any decent test Virtual [...]

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Attach an Epson Perfection 1200 scanner to a Hyper-V virtual machine

Well, I searched quite a bit and couldn’t find any way to directly attach my scanner (Epson Perfection 1200 photo) to my Hyper-V virtual machines.  I did find some software that functions as a "scanner server" very similar to a print server.  Its a client server set of software that operations together to allow the [...]

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Virtual MS Cluster in Hyper-V with iSCSI SAN shared storage

I needed to replicate an environment we use often in my daily work in the Medical IT field, and since I have Hyper-V it ended up being a bit more difficult to achieve than with Virtual PC.  We run the cluster in an Active/Active configuration so some of the processes may be a bit different [...]

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