Virtualization in System Center 2016 for virtualizationreview.com

In tandem with the big article on Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016 I wrote a piece on System Center 2016 as it applies to virtualization. Read it here.

This article covers VMM in-depth, the support for orchestrating the upgrade from 2012 R2 to 2016, creating storage spaces direct clusters, storage replica, software defined networking and shielded VMs. There’s also a bit on support for VMware and a bit on the other System Center products.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

Windows Server 2016: Virtualization Unleashed for virtualizationreview.com

I wrote two articles, one on Hyper-V in the recently released RTM version of Windows Server 2016 for virtualizationreview.com. The other one cover System Center 2016. This one covers the new features in Hyper-V such as Storage QoS, Hyper convergence through storage spaces direct, software defined networking, Nano server, upgrading a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster to 2016, better backups through resilient change tracking in the platform, Shielded VMs, Windows and Hyper-V containers and Resilient File System (ReFS). Read it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

Azure Usage and Billing Portal for 4Sysops

Here’s another post that was published a while ago on 4Sysops. This time I looked at a “hobby project” from a couple of people in the Azure engineering team. This is a study in deploying a “complex” piece of software in Azure but the end result is a PowerBI dashboard to track usage and billing across multiple subscriptions. Find it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

Azure Business to Business (B2B) for 4Sysops

I’m catching up on some posts that were published a while ago (on 4Sysops) but I never mentioned them here. Azure Business to Business (B2B) sounds very similar to the B2C service but has a totally different target audience.

Find it here.

Enjoy and thanks for reading.

Hyper-V Replica Part 2 for virtualizationreview.com

Here’s part 2 of my look at Hyper-V replica for virtualizationreview.com. In this part I cover the Hyper-V Replica Broker Role, how to extend Replica and how to use Azure Site Recovery to extend replica all the way to the cloud. Read it here.

Enjoy and thanks for reading.