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What’s New in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012–Part 8 of 8 for Virtualization Review

paulschnack — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:25:45 +0000

And the “last” part is now online at virtualizationreview.com . Don’t worry, there’s a bonus part, number nine which compares Hyper-V to VSphere, it’ll be interesting to see what comments i get .

Meanwhile part number 8 covers VM mobility (Live Migration, Live Storage Migration and Shared Nothing Live Migration). Read it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

What’s New in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012–Part 7 of 8 for Virtualization Review

paulschnack — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:23:55 +0000

We’re now getting closer to the end of this series that looks at Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012, part 7 is online at virtualizationreview.com, read it here. This part covers storage enhancements: SMB 3.0 and running VMs from file shares, the new VHDX format as well as guest Virtual Fibre Channel.

Enjoy and thanks for reading.

What’s New in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012–Part 6 of 8 for Virtualization Review

paulschnack — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:36:36 +0000

And the saga continues on virtualizationreview.com …. This time we’re looking at security in Hyper-V, using Bitlocker Drive Encryption on Clustered Shared Volumes 2.0 storage and my favourite new Hyper-V feature: Replica. Read it here.

Enjoy and thanks for reading.

What’s New in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012–Part 5 of 8 for Virtualization Review

paulschnack — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:39:03 +0000

Finally it’s time to leave networking in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 behind and move on to other areas of improvement. In part 5 of the series for virtualizationreview.com I look at scalability, NUMA, cluster patching and VM monitoring. Read it here.

Enjoy and thanks for reading.

What’s New in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012–Part 4 of 8 for Virtualization Review

paulschnack — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:00:59 +0000

Part four of looking at what’s new in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is now live at virtualizationreview.com, you can read it here. This is the last part that covers networking enhancements; focusing on NIC teaming and other improvements for data centre networking.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

What’s New in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012–Part 3 of 8 for Virtualization Review

paulschnack — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:17:13 +0000

Continuing my technical deep dive of what’s new in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012, part 3 is now live at virtualizationreview.com . This time I cover Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), Dynamic Virtual Machine Queuing and Receive Side Scaling (RSS). Read it here.

Enjoy and thanks for reading!

Very interesting blog post by Jose Barreto

paulschnack — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:30:00 +0000

It’s not often that I point to other people’s blog posts but this one is great – I’ll make sure to point all my diploma students to this one, as it covers the concepts behind High Availability in IT systems in an excellent way. It then goes on to give examples in the Microsoft stack of products. Warmly recommended – read it here.

Enjoy!

2012 in review

paulschnack — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:44:03 +0000

Wow – I thought there was about three people in the world reading my blog – as it turns out it’s a lot more than that. Pretty cool.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 3,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 7 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

What’s New in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012–Part 2 of 8 for Virtualization Review

paulschnack — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:17:19 +0000

Even though the virtualization review.com site calls it “Hyper-V 3 Deep Dive” (and Microsoft doesn’t use the “version 3” moniker) this is indeed the second part of my deep dive on Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012. This time around I cover Software Defined Networking (SDN) and how SCVMM 2012 SP1 helps out with this, and how you might need a Network Virtualization Gateway. Read it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

What’s New in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012–Part 1 of 8 for Virtualization Review

paulschnack — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:15:04 +0000

The first part in an nine part, deep dive, series on what’s new in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 is now live on virtualizationreview.com. The first eight parts will cover individual, technical enhancements, whilst the last part will compare Hyper-V to VMWare’s VSphere 5.1.

In this part I cover the extensible virtual switch, along with other networking enhancements. You can read the article here.