Whilst it's possible to get Debian, and by proxy Ubuntu, running under Hyper-V it's nice to see that Microsoft are potentially going to officially support them along side CentOS, Red Hat and SuSE.
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At work we've been virtualising stuff for a long time, perhaps longer than most, but I'm still coming across companies and sysadmins that either don't know about virtualisation (inconceivable!) or have written it off as a fad. That really does surprise me.
If you're using a combination of a scripting language, diskshadow and task scheduler to backup your Hyper-V machines take special care to make sure that task scheduler does not cut off the job whatsoever. Doing so can cause the host server to crash out, although it doesn't seem to be perfectly repeatable I've been able to …
Following up to yesterday's post on LXC: Linux Containers, I had a quick play with 2 ULA subnets (aka RFC4193 addresses - dont forget that site-local was depreciated) - one subnet was dedicated to the LXC containers, one for my normal LAN. Perhaps unsurprisingly IPv6 appears to work perfectly well in this setup.