Today my friend Brian Lewis tells you how to get Hyper-V installed. Check it out! “And does it..” Yes. It actually looks like that robot Hyper-V mascot. If you have missed any of the series posts, check out my summary post for links to all of the articles available so far at https://aka.ms/cloudseries.
In today’s installment, Matt Hester provides some excellent resources for making sure your server installations are ready to support delivering IT-as-a-Service (aka a Private Cloud).Check out his post HEREAnd if you have missed any of the series posts, check out my summary post for links to all of the articles available so far at https://aka.ms/cloudseries.
November 2011 - January 2012 IMPORTANT Software Evaluations – Get ‘em here: https://aka.ms/Evals "WAG" = Windows Administrator Groups (on LinkedIn) with Subgroups for user groups by geography – https://aka.ms/WAG Future Live, In-Person Event Information: TechNet Events (for IT Pros): http://www.TechNetEvents.com MSDN Events (for Software Developers): http://www.MSDNEvents.com Session Slides: https://aka.ms/FY12H1Remde Microsoft Virtualization: On Your Terms Windows … Continue reading Here Are Your Microsoft Virtualization Event Resources
http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmWe IT Pro-focused Technical Evangelists are often asked, “Hey.. Where can I find the download to try out such-and-such software?” And after I find out what they actually meant by “such-and-such”, I usually just tell them essentially to “google it on Bing”. But that’s not sufficient. So what I am doing instead, on this page, … Continue reading Where is that evaluation download?
Okay.. I feel like sharing this because it’s pretty stupid, but in a geeky-sort-of-way the solution was interesting enough to share. Think Chicken & Egg. (or “Catch-22”).As the title of this post suggests, the subject is Windows Failover Clustering. For those of you who are not familiar with it, Windows Failover Clustering is a built-in … Continue reading Doh! (What I learned about Windows Failover Clustering. The hard way.)
** UPDATE: We’ve rescheduled the Kansas City and Saint Louis events! See you January 10 and 17!Greetings!Well, it’s that time again. It’s time to look at your calendar and look at our list of TechNet Events in the central US to see if you’ll be able to spend the day with us.“A day? I thought … Continue reading TechNet Events are Back!
If you’re living under a rock (or have better things to do) you may have missed the fact that all this month (April 2011) I’ve been creating one post each day having something to do with “the cloud”.“Yeah. I saw that.”And today, as a grand finale, I thought I’d list out titles and link to … Continue reading The Cloudy Summary (“Cloudy April” – Part 30)
System Center Advisor is: “That’s very pretty, Kevin. But what does it all mean?”Here’s the idea. You have servers, infrastructure roles (like Active Directory) and server applications that are configured and running. But are they configured and running properly? “Yes, I think so.”But do you KNOW?“No.”Exactly. And of course Microsoft has tools such as various Best … Continue reading Cloudy Server Configuration Advice (“Cloudy April” – Part 29)
As you may recall from part 16 (Hyper-V Cloud), one key aspect of what we define as “a cloud” has to do with it providing some level of “self-service”. You provide a portal or some other method of requesting and then being granted IT resources. “Yeah, I’d love to let my users do that, Kevin.”Of … Continue reading Serve Yourself (“Cloudy April” – Part 28)
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 is a powerful virtualization management tool. It does a great job of organizing and managing your virtualization hosts, clusters, virtual machines, and libraries of resources (virtual hard disks, saved machines, machine templates, profiles for hardware and operating systems, etc.) And it does this for the management of … Continue reading What’s new in SCVMM 2012 – (“Cloudy April” – Part 27)
Absolutely Full of I.T. 