Category: Windows Server 2012
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A Double Double for your Trouble!
NOTE: This post was originally posted on the Canadian IT Pros Connection (Double Double for your Trouble). It is being cross-posted, unedited, here. -M This is the season of new classes and teachers, of harvest and giving thanks, of ghosts and goblins and witches. The days are getting shorter and your To Do list is…
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Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V 3.4
This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection blog, and can be seen there at http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2012/09/11/linux-integration-services-for-hyper-v-3-4.aspx. Microsoft has been taking tremendous steps to prove that Hyper-V is not simply the best hypervisor for Windows users and administrators, it is also a viable option if you have Linux servers as well. Last week…
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Default File Locations in Hyper-V
This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection blog, and can be seen there at http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2012/09/11/default-file-locations-in-hyper-v.aspx. Note: This article applies equally to the server-side and client-side hypervisor. Although some scenarios may not apply to older versions, the technical steps apply to all versions of Hyper-V released to date. A virtual machine in…
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Installing Windows Server 2012 on an HP ProLiant!
The day has finally arrived. This morning (September 4th) all us geeks will be eagerly waiting for Windows Server 2012 to be available for download. It really is quite exciting! I have been running the Release Candidate (RC) bits on my HP ProLiant ML350s for several months, but this week-end I was going to spend…
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It’s Coming… Can we now compare Hyper-V with vSphere as both new products prepare for launch?
On July 5th I published an article titled A Response to VMware’s ‘Get the Facts’ page comparing vSphere to Hyper-V & System Center’. In the seven weeks since it went live it has become the 4th most read article I have ever published (in seven years as a blogger), as well as being by far the…
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Is it true? The Memory Tax is gone!
CRN is reporting that next week at VMworld VMware will be announcing that they are doing away with Virtual Memory Entitlements, which you have probably heard me refer to as the Memory Tax. According to the article (http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/240005840/vmware-kills-vram-licensing-will-focus-on-vsphere-cloud-bundles.htm?cid=nl_alert) VMware is trying to regain its competitive edge over Microsoft’s Hyper-V, which has over the past couple…
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Windows Server 2012: Release Dates
If you didn’t realize that Windows Server 2012 was released to manufacturers (RTM) this week, you can easily be forgiven, as most of the hype went to its desktop cousin, Windows 8. That being said, Server 2012 is a huge milestone for Microsoft in a lot of areas, not the least of which is virtualization…
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Windows Fever… Catch It!
This morning we in the field of Information Technology awake to a new reality… A virtual reality if you will, but one that is quite real. On July 5th I posted an article in this space called A Response to VMware’s ‘Get the Facts’ page comparing vSphere to Hyper-V and System Center. In the four…
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