NOT spending money on a hardware load balancer when you have the requirement to do so will hurt you considerably in the long run, however most folks don’t know one from the other, and why one man’s load balancer is another man’s small fortune. Now it’s easy to find a hardware load balancer that has […]
Why build your own? Do you need your own? What if you do? And you want to build it on Hyper-V ? If you don’t think that Hyper-V is that mature, then consider that Hyper-V adoption is up by 12%. Virtualisation is the cornerstone to rapid provisioning of cloud based systems, and the talk on […]
As I write this I’m downloading Windows 2008 R2 RTM from TechNet. Both MSDN and TechNet now carry RTM code, and I’m super excited to be upgrading my notebook from RC to RTM. In case you didn’t read right there, I’ve been running the x64 edition of the release candidate on my HP mobile Workstation […]
Yip, not a word of a lie. Yesterday Microsoft released 20000 lines of code for Linux kernel inclusion, meaning that the potential exists for every future version of Linux to play nicely inside a Hyper-V guest. The code was released as GPL (did I mention I wasn’t lying) which means that you’re not paying a […]
I’ve encountered a fair amount of confusion around Hyper-V and what you need to obtain Hyper-V. Hyper-V is available as a Role inside Server 2008, however it is ALSO available as a stand alone Hyper Visor platform without a surrounding Host OS GUI. Have a look at http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/how-to-get.mspx for download locations and comparisons between the […]
If you like my last blog post on the Active Directory Recycle Bin feature in Windows 2008 R2, then Aviraj Ajgekar’s blog is for you. Avijar writes on Windows 2008 topics such as the Recycle bin, Offline Domain joins, Hyper-V in R2 etc. You may want to check out the rest of his blog as […]
The TechNet "How Do I?" Videos represent a huge amount of work on various topics, covering everything from Exchange, to Fore Front, OCS, PowerShell, Active Directory, Windows Server, Hyper-V and more. They certainly are worth a browse and you may even find me on one or two of them ;). Have a look at them […]
So many blogs, so little time, yet this one caught my eye this morning, from the Windows Server Division WebLog. Checkout the Clustering updates and Hyper-V migration as standard in R2. Something to keep an eye on is the reviewers guide www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008r2 which will be updated regularly as features are released. This space is seriously […]
I love Bink.nu and Hypervoria ! Yesterday Hypervoria.com reported on Hyper-V 2.0 with new features that encroach onto VMware territory in a big way, however there a few features I’m really loving at this stage: Live Migration The most anticipated is of course Live Migration: moving running VM’s from one host to another without interruption […]
Steven Bink of Bink.nu launched HyperVoria about three days ago. It contains news, article and blog post from all over the net on Hyper-V. Quoting the original post: So if you are planning, piloting or deploying Hyper-V, please visit to http://HyperVoria.com, have a look around and join the first Hyper-V community, be sure to subscribe […]