November 2011 - Posts
Everybody is talking about the cloud these days. However the term Cloud is completely over-hyped! Suppliers rebrand there products into cloud products even when it has not only one Cloud property. People say that they are using Cloud computing, but they...
A couple of weeks ago the Hyper-V.nu team visited the Netwerk Gebruikersgroep Nederland (NGN) to record some interviews about Hyper-V. The NGN record and edit the video’s. Jaap Wesselius interviewed Hans Vredevoort, Maarten Wijsman and me. The first of...
Before, the only way to check what the version of the “VM Additions” of a VM were was to fabricate a script and run it remotely or on the VM locally. Luckily the people at Microsoft have integrated a column in SCVMM 2012 in the “VMs and Services” section...
Let’s start with the good news: The Hyper-V.nu event is completely sold out! The bad news is that you cannot register anymore. For this event we’ve decided not to watch for another location then the planned location @ Microsoft. For the next event we...
Some time ago I did a series on Bare Metal Deployment of Hyper-V servers with Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta. Back in March I tested with HP BL460 G6 servers which have an Insight Lights-Out (iLO2) Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). This time I...
Carsten Rachfahl took another opportunity to interview me after my presentation Hyper-V Storage Deep Dive at The Experts Conference 2011 in Frankfurt. The subject: Hyper-V V3 and Storage Carsten’s blog can be found here: http://www.hyper-v-server.de/videos...
In my previous article about ‘Monitoring a Hyper-V environment we’ve looked at two tools: HyperV_Mon and the Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool. Both tools can be used to monitor the performance of a Hyper-V environment. But as I said earlier a monitoring...
As we announced in this blog the seats at our Hyper-V community event on the 19th of January are limited. Today we received the message that all seats are assigned! This means that you get an error/ message when you try to register for this event. The...