John asked the following questions at our TechNet event in Saint Louis a few weeks ago: “Can you show us a demo of how to integrate SCVMM with Citrix and/or VMware?”” The answer to that is no. At least not me. I can’t personally afford, nor does my team have the budget for a VMware … Continue reading More Hyper-V and SCVMM Questions (So Many Questions. So Little Time. Part 9.)
Microsoft has just scheduled a FREE 2-day training course entitled “Creating and Managing a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Jump Start”, happening on February 21st-22nd, 2012 from 9:00am to 5:00pm PST. Adopting this exciting new computing paradigm provides a whole new landscape of technology and career direction for IT professionals. Microsoft Learning and the … Continue reading Breaking News: Free Private Cloud “Jump Start” Training
In our Saint Louis TechNet Event last week, Kurt asked several questions relating to virtualization and Hyper-V: “Any issues with running SBS, SQL, and application server on same machine?” “How do I set up multiple drives within a virtual server?” “What is the best base core for virtualization? (Enterprise, File Server, etc.)” To your first … Continue reading How much can virtualization really do? (So many questions. So little time. Part 8.)
At our TechNet Event in Saint Louis, Matt J asked: “How do I migrate from Microsoft Virtual Server to Hyper-V?” I haven’t been asked that for quite awhile (about 3 years, actually). But we did have a few people at our event in Saint Louis that are still using Microsoft’s previous virtualization solution, Virtual Server. … Continue reading Migrating from Microsoft Virtual Server to Hyper-V (So Many Questions. So Little Time. Part 7.)
Justin, in our Saint Louis TechNet Event asked us: “How can we track dynamic memory over time? Application vendor's physical requirements are always too high. Resource usage over time can better right-size an app.” As of SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2, you have some new Hyper-V performance counters that you can monitor using Performance … Continue reading Tracking Hyper-V Dynamic Memory (So Many Questions. So Little Time. Part 6.)
This question came from Randy at our TechNet Event in Saint Louis: “Are the VMM management capabilities for a Citrix XenServer based VM the same as for a Hyper-V based VM? (example: can you still live migrate, change RAM, etc?)” The simple answer is: The capabilities are pretty much the same. Live Migration, for example, … Continue reading SCVMM in System Center 2012 and managing Citrix XenServer (So Many Questions. So Little Time. Part 5.)
Yesterday the big news from Microsoft was the announcement of and new details around the new System Center 2012 product, delivered via live Webcast. I was very happy to be able to watch the webcast with John Weston and 88 of our closest friends in Saint Louis during our TechNet Event.“I wasn’t able to see … Continue reading In case you missed it: The Private Cloud Webcast
Today during the “Private Cloud Day” live webcast event, Microsoft announced a pretty big change in how we think of and purchase the System Center suite. Bottom-line.. it’s no longer a separate set of products, but it is just one product: System Center 2012. (Well.. actually two.. but different only in terms of licensing.) In … Continue reading Breaking News: New System Center 2012 Licensing Model Announced
Here are another set of really good questions from our TechNet Event on Tuesday in Kansas City. These came all on the same slip of paper, from the same person. --- “How will Windows 8 / Server 8 change Microsoft Virtualization?” In Windows Server “8” there are a great many improvements in Hyper-V; many more … Continue reading What’s new in Windows Server “8” Virtualization? (So many questions. So little time. Part 2.)
It’s another snowy day up here in Minneapolis, but earlier this week I had the pleasure of traveling down to tropical Kansas City. Overland Park, KS, to be more specific. And on that particular day we decided to try something new. We (John Weston and I) asked our attendees to write down questions, topic areas, … Continue reading So Many Questions. So Little Time (part 1)
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