Category: Windows Server 8

• Get Your Head in the Cloud!

  In case you missed it, Microsoft released the System Center 2012 bundle a few weeks ago.  Well after the incredible success of Microsoft Canada’s IT Pro Virtualization Boot Camp we have decided to do it again! Starting this week Microsoft Canada, the IT Evangelism Team, and a select group of MVPs will be presenting two…

  Mitch Garvis

  May 7, 2012

  Boot Camp, Install Camp, Private Cloud, System Center, Windows Server 8

• Creating a Virtual Machine in Windows Server 8 “beta” with Hyper-V

  Hyper-V is, as I have mentioned in this space before, going to be a game changer.  I am really looking forward to the new maximums both of the host and guest machines.  However those of you who have become familiar with Hyper-V over the past couple of years, you will be able to hit the…

  Mitch Garvis

  March 19, 2012

  Hyper-V, Windows 8, Windows Server 8

  Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008 R2

• Installing the Hyper-V Role in Windows Server 8 ‘beta’

  I am off to the races with Windows 8, both client (on a HP EliteBook 2740p) and Server 8 “beta” (on an HP ProLiant ML 350 G5)!  When I say off to the races, I mean it… this is a much faster operating system than I am used to, and I am coming from really…

  Mitch Garvis

  March 17, 2012

  Hyper-V, Windows 8, Windows Server 8

  HP EliteBook, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, ProLiant, Windows 8, Windows Server 8

• Windows Server 8: Busting the limits in Hyper-V, and comparing the numbers to VMware vSphere 5.0

  It’s here! Ok, what I should say is that it’s BETA edition is here! Windows Server 8 is going to be a game changer for all sorts of reasons. However for those people who have been saying that Hyper-V is not ready for prime-time (it has been for a while) the new limits are going…

  Mitch Garvis

  March 9, 2012

  Hyper-V, Virtualization, VMware, Windows 8, Windows Server 8