Category: Hyper-V
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Step-by-Step: Creating Differencing Disks
Earlier this week I told you how you can use Differencing Disks in courseware, for lab development, for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, for software development, and for any number of other uses. They really are a very handy technology once you get to know them. But how do you do that? Although usually I would show…
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Is Hyper-V the Best Hypervisor Out There?
Many of you know that used to do a lot of VMware training… primarily for a company called VMTraining. So I was thrilled when they reached out to me recently and asked if I was willing to do a webinar on Hyper-V for their customers… and for anyone else who was interested. While it is…
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Hyper-V Tips of the Day
Hey folks! I know it is Friday afternoon, it is mid-May, and most of the country is hip-deep in the NHL playoffs, so I figure I will give you a lighter post… something that will stick in your mind, but with no ‘gotta test it, action items attacked’ sort of thing. Hyper-V has come a…
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Taking Back Your Lunch Hour: A Friday Funny
Someone just forwarded this to me. It is a commercial for Windows Azure’s Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) offering, and it is absolutely hilarious! Thanks for following guys… Let me end the week with one funny post! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vu0Mc3gY8yE
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Two new books on Hyper-V: Networking & Storage!
I love promoting IT Pros and Microsoft, but when one of the champions is a Canadian it is even better for me. Mitch Tulloch is an IT Pro author from Winnipeg, and is one of the guys I really look up to. I have a bunch of his books, and every time a new one…
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Installing Oracle Linux 6 U3 on Hyper-V 2012 with LIS 3.4
Everyone runs Windows… okay, that is not entirely true, but by 2012 it is the rare datacentre that does not have any Windows running. I have been crisscrossing the country and indeed traversing the globe telling people how wonderful Hyper-V and Microsoft’s virtualization story is as good as or better than it’s competition, whether that…
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Calgary Here I Come!
Even before joining Microsoft Canada’s DPE team as a Virtual Evangelist (the Virtual part means I am a contractor in case you were curious, but I also specialize in Virtualization so it works in my favour!) I have had the opportunity to crisscross our great nation talking to audiences of all sorts and sizes –…
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If He Can Do It YOU Can Too!
I have been saying for the past couple of years that Microsoft’s Hyper-V is much simpler than vSphere, but I never imagined that I would see this: Caleb, a 5th grader, shows us how to create a virtual machine, install an OS, and even create a virtual switch. Not only was I impressed with how…
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Virtualization: CPUs and Cores and Sockets… Oh My!
I have been getting a lot of questions recently about virtual machine CPU usage, especially around things like Symmetric Multi-Threading (SMT). Jeff Woosley, the Principal Product Manager (WSSC) at Microsoft, recently sent out this clarification which many of you will find enlightening. –MDG — Q: Should Symmetric Multi-Threading (SMT) be enabled or disabled? A: Hyper-V…
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Microsoft Virtual Academy: Live Q&A!
The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next FREE & PUBLIC event Live Q&A: Introduction to Hyper-V on Wednesday April 3rd, from 8:30 am – 10:30am PST with virtualization experts Jeff Woolsey & Symon Perriman. Ask your customers to join this live online event designed…
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Virtual Networking in Hyper-V 2012
Microsoft has released a poster diagramming virtual networking in Hyper-V 2012. Much of it revolves around Virtual Machine Manager, and is actually branded System Center 2012 SP1. If you are building or managing datacenters – even smaller ones – you should download this document and review it. We all have something to learn from it!…
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Converting VHDs to VHDX and other questions…
Many of the articles I write for both The World According to Mitch and the Canadian IT Pro Connection come directly from people I meet through my travels. They send me questions about technology by e-mail and rather than simply replying to them, if I feel the questions are relevant, I write them up as…
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Windows 8: Client Hyper-V and Why It Matters
Recently I sat down with Kevin Remde from Microsoft’s US DPE team to discuss virtualization in Windows 8. We had a great discussion about VDI, client-side Hyper-V, and a lot of other interesting options. Let us know what you think! -M http://aka.ms/fe3epl
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Windows 8: Client Hyper-V and Why It Matters
In December I sat down with Kevin Remde, Technical Evangelist with Microsoft USA, to discuss how Windows 8 now includes Microsoft Hyper-V. It is a great conversation about why you might want to use the power of Hyper-V virtualization on the desktop, what is required, and how to get started. I invite you to watch…
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System Center VMM Supported Hosts
When I was asked in class recently what type of virtualization hosts are supported by System Center 2012 though Virtual Machine Manager I readily answered off the top of my head. Unfortunately one of my students went on-line to search for confirmation of this, and came up with a TechNet article that gave a conflicting…
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