Tag: VHD

• Getting Started With Hyper-V in Server 2012 and Windows 8

  You all know by now that I am a huge Hyper-V fan… I have been using it since 2008, but with the latest release I am unabashedly loving Microsoft’s Layer 1 hypervisor.  The fact that it has been included in Windows 8  – as in, no different from the virtualization platform I use in my […]

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  Mitch Garvis

  December 27, 2012

  Best Practices, Hyper-V, Virtualization, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012

  Cluster Shared Volumes, Hyper-V, OpenVMS, Random-access memory, VHD, Virtual machine, Windows, Windows 8

• When I’m Sixty-Four… TERABYTES!

  Okay, I am asking for a show of hands: How many of you remember 100MB hard drives? 80? 40?  While I remember smaller, my first hard drive was a 20 Megabyte Seagate drive.  Note that I didn’t say Gigabytes… Way back then the term Terabyte might have been coined already as a very theoretical term, […]

  Mitch Garvis

  October 4, 2012

  Storage, VHD Files, Virtualization, Virtualization Storage

  Cluster Shared Volumes, Hyper-V, Hyper-V 2012, Microsoft, Storage area network, Terabyte, VHD, Windows Server, Windows Server 2012

• Windows 8 Experience Index… What it means and how to check it

  Six years ago Microsoft introduced the Windows Experience Index, a better way to measure the actual speed of computers, rather than simply relying on the single measurement of the CPU speed. Although it really is more complicated than this, Microsoft has broken the speed of a computer down to five components: CPU, RAM, graphics and […]

  Mitch Garvis

  August 21, 2012

  Windows 8, Windows Experience Index

  HP EliteBook, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, VHD, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Experience Index, Windows System Assessment Tool

• Creating a Multi-OS Environment with Boot from VHD

  I spend a lot of time demonstrating different technologies for different audiences.  Because of that I often need to use different operating systems and rather than take along several machines (which I often have to do anyways, but for other reasons) I have taken to configuring my laptop (currently an HP EliteBook 2740p) in a […]

  Mitch Garvis

  June 20, 2012

  BCD, Boot from VHD, Dual Boot, Windows 7, Windows 8

  Disk Management, Operating system, VHD, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Automated Installation Kit, Windows Server 2008 R2