Author: paulschnack

System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 Deep Dive for Technet Magazine

I have written a two part deep dive into using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 for Technet Magazine. The first part looks at using SCVMM to manage your fabric, the underlying hardware, clusters, networks and storage as well as setting up SCVMM in a Highly Available fashion. The second part will cover building your private cloud on top of this managed fabric.

Read part 1 here.

Enjoy and thanks for reading.

My experience of TechEd Australia 2012–or “How to convince your boss to send you to the next TechEd”

Two weeks ago I attended TechEd here in Australia as a guest of Microsoft. It was a great experience which has already resulted in two published interviews, here and here, with more to follow. Here’s a short post about my experiences of TechEd and why you should attend next year if you haven’t been already.

Enjoy – and thanks for reading.

Building my own cloud–part 1 for Virtualization Review

I wrote this little piece some months ago for virtualizationreview.com on how I went about putting together my own private cloud with a few computers and subsequently moved it to Sunshine Coast TAFE where I teach part time. This first part covers what hardware I chose and why – read it here.

Enjoy and thanks for reading

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 CTP2 overview–Part 4

Concluding my look at the forthcoming SP1 for System Center 2012 at 4sysops is part four that you can read here. In this post I talk about what’s coming in Service Manager 2012 SP1 and App Controller 2012 SP1 as well as a few words about the brand new Service Provider Framework (SPF).

Enjoy and thanks for reading.