April 2012 - Posts
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V support the new VHDX Virtual Hard Disk format. If you are interested in the technical details just became available and you can download the VHDX specification: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details...
Having presented at TEC2011 in Frankfurt for the first time was a good experience and I was very pleased to be asked to speak again. This time in San Diego in the US. Join us for The Experts Conference for Virtualization 2012, April 29-May 2 in San Diego...
Microsoft at MMS 2012 announces a new toolkit for mass conversion of VMware VM’s to Hyper-V. AVMMT is a free wizard based conversion tool aimed at conversion from VMware to the current version of Hyper-V. Windows Server 2012 support is still under development...
Last year I speculated about a number of possible names for the next version of Windows. Windows Server 2012 was just one of them. Now we now that the quotes around the number 8 were not for nothing. The official name for Server is Windows Server 2012...
Today was my first day at MMS2012 in Las Vegas. It is the event for Microsoft System Center and the new 2012 version of the product is inseparable from Hyper-V and Private Cloud. Despite the hard economic times we live in, the event is sold out of all...
[Update: Since I wrote this blog the version of SMB has been updated from 2.2 to 3.0 to reflect the vast amount of changes in the protocol] Today was my first day at MMS2012 in Las Vegas. It is the event for Microsoft System Center and the new 2012 version...
This is another installment in my series on Windows 8 Storage & Hyper-V. Previous blogs in the series can be found here: Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – VHDX and PowerShell Part 3 – The Art of Creating a VHD Another promising new storage functionality...
In the last blog in my series on Windows 8 storage I already touched upon creating a VHDX with PowerShell 3.0 in Windows Server 8. In this blog I will focus on the subject a little bit more, showing the myriad ways of creating VHDs and show you some powerful...
In my last blog of my series on Windows 8 storage, I already briefly touched upon creating a VHDX with PowerShell 3.0 in Windows Server 8. In this blog I will focus on the subject a little bit more, showing the myriad ways of creating VHDs and introduce...
On the 11th of April I will present a webinar for Savision about The Top Three Things You Need to Know about Hyper-V in Windows 8. I will address the folowing subjects: Storage – We’ll review the new VHDX virtual disk format, Clustered Shared...
Exactly one year ago Jaap Wesselius and I decided to give our Hyper-V.nu site a new look and we started to combine our blogs. On April 1st, Peter Noorderijk and Maarten Wijsman joined the team and started writing their blogs for Hyper-V.nu. Jaap...