Storing VMs on file shares, CSV enhancements, guest Fibre Channel, and the new VHDX format: it's all about better ways to work with storage in this version of Hyper-V.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 04/29/2013
Here's a cool new trick I learned absolutely by accident when working with a Wordpress server.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the general availability of new Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings on Windows Azure, positioning itself as a competitor against IaaS provider Amazon Web Services.
Security monitoring must adapt to remain effective in the cloud and virtualization arena. That's where role-based monitoring comes in.
Let's look at what Microsoft's hypervisor offers by way of improvements to security and disaster recovery.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 04/15/2013
The open-source Xen hypervisor is now being managed by The Linux Foundation.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/15/2013
Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD), Microsoft's cloud-based identity management solution, is now out of the preview stage and available for use as a commercial service for use by organizations.
A "public paid preview" of Microsoft's Windows Azure Backup service is now available, Microsoft announced Monday at its Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas.
It'd be nice to see the company use it for VCP self-paced training next.
Version 2.0 CloudPortal Business Manager, Citrix's cloud services delivery platform, was released last week.
Now that you know what's new in networking in Hyper-V, let's look at scalability, NUMA and VM monitoring.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 04/01/2013
A new release of CloudPortal Business Manager provides a platform for Anything as a Service.
Quite a few companies are mashing up server, storage, networking and even the hypervisor into turnkey solutions that can scale up or down as data center needs dictate.
- By Mike Matchett
- 03/20/2013
Enhancements to the newest version of Hyper-V can affect the design of your networks. Here's a look at NIC Teaming and some new data center design options.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 03/18/2013
It's nice to know that VMware's documentation is accessible on my iPhone or Amazon Kindle. Here's how to gain access, too.
VMware integrated Nicira technology into new VMware NSX family of network virtualization services; company also creating hybrid cloud services unit.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/13/2013
Microsoft System Center 2012 can be used to provide IT as a service, especially in the deployment of application services. Here's how to set up service templates that can help you do it with consistency and repetitive predictability.
- By Angela Cataldo
- 03/11/2013
Let's take a look at Hyper-V's virtual machine network enhancements: Single Root -Input Output virtualization, Dynamic Virtual Machine Queuing & RSS.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 03/06/2013
vSphere Replication is all too easy, as long as you take it one step at a time.
- By Ken Werneburg
- 03/04/2013
You have many options for deploying virtual machines. But here's one method you should become familiar with, as it'll help you when the other options become obsolete.