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Windows Server 2012 cluster scalability goes up to 8000 VMs
During launch of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has doubled the number of VM’s per cluster: going up from 4000 to 8000 since the last announcement at RTM. Source: keynote Transform the Datacenter –...
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Altaro Hyper-V Backup 3.5 1st Windows Server 2012 backup product on the planet
Altaro just launched Altaro Hyper-V Backup 3.5 with the following support: Windows Server 2012 Support, including support for VHDX files. Windows 2012: support for backup and restore of VMs located on...
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System Center 2012 SP1 Beta is Now Available
After we had already spotted the updated documentation on Microsoft Download and on TechNet, we now have the beta bits for System Center 2012 SP1. So finally we can also manage the recently released...
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Disk to Disk to Cloud Protection of Hyper-V Virtual Machines
Microsoft has started offering Online Backup of Hyper-V Virtual Machines to Windows Azure using System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1. In this blog I will explain how to set this up and I can...
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Hyper-V Support Made Easy in Red Hat Enterprise 5.9
If you are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux you’ll find great support for Hyper-V as a standard feature in the new minor Linux 5.9 release for which a beta became available recently. Running Linux...
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The Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2012 Has Launched
You can participate in the survey HERE Just over a year ago, we asked people to answer 80 questions about their intentions and implementations of Hyper-V and System Center in The Great Big Hyper-V...
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Win a Microsoft Private Cloud Computing Book
A few days ago I promised to send someone a free Microsoft Private Cloud Computing book, provided they tweeted or blogged about The Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2012. Of course we want as many people...
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Intelligent Automatic Pagefile Setting in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
UPDATED 10/8/2012 Pagefile If you install Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V, the pagefile will be automatically managed, which usually has a 1:1 ratio with physical memory. However VM’s use their...
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State of the VDI and SBC Union
Project Virtual Reality Check is a initiative by Ruben Spruijt and Jeroen van de Kamp to investigate VDI infrastructure compared to a virtualized SBC infrastructure (among other things). You can read...
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Windows Azure Services for Windows Server
Many businesses are changing their perspective on cloud services. A lot of arguments that prohibit acceptance of the cloud slowly start to crumble. Internet connectivity is a common good, bandwidths...
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HP Storage Platforms and Windows Server 2012
[Updated: see ] HP bought 3PAR several years ago and as I expected the recently announced HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 series are intended to replace HP EVA. There is even a data migration solution to make...
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Hyper-V Protection with Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1
In the quiet days between Christmas and New Year, I had some time to research how DPM2012 SP1 performed with protecting guests on a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster using CSV v2.0. According to the...
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NIC Teaming, Hyper-V switch, QoS and actual performance | part 1 – Theory
This blog series consists of four parts NIC Teaming, Hyper-V switch, QoS and actual performance | part 1 – Theory NIC Teaming, Hyper-V switch, QoS and actual performance | part 2 – Preparing the lab...
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NIC Teaming, Hyper-V switch, QoS and actual performance | part 2 – Preparing...
This blog series consists of four parts NIC Teaming, Hyper-V switch, QoS and actual performance | part 1 – Theory NIC Teaming, Hyper-V switch, QoS and actual performance | part 2 – Preparing the lab...
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Failover Cluster Manager affected by KB2750149
I ran into a problem with a misbehaving Failover Cluster Manager (FCM) on a Windows Server 2012 cluster after allowing Cluster Aware Updating (CAU) to update the cluster. The following updates were...
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Windows Azure Services on Windows Server has launched
Today we see the birth of the official build of Windows Azure Services on Windows Server. It will allow you to use Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 SP1 and Antares (Websites service) in your...
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NIC Teaming, Hyper-V switch, QoS and actual performance | part 3 – Performance
This blog series consists of four parts NIC Teaming, Hyper-V switch, QoS and actual performance | part 1 – Theory NIC Teaming, Hyper-V switch, QoS and actual performance | part 2 – Preparing the lab...
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NIC Teaming, Hyper-V switch, QoS and actual performance | part 4 – Traffic...
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W2K12 Hotfix related to Host Level Backup of VMs
If you are running host level backups of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V VMs which are located on Cluster Shared Volumes using Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1, then the following hotfix is applicable to...
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Event 47 WHEA-Logger on a Windows Server 2012 cluster node
I encountered a pesky issue recently. Before I get into the details, first a quick overview of the setup. A Windows Server 2012 cluster consisting of two cluster nodes. The cluster nodes are brand...
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