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Hans Vredevoort
Hans Vredevoort is an IT consultant who has specialized in Windows Virtualization & System Center technology. With the advent of private and public cloud infrastructure he focuses more on the aspects of cloud architecture, migration to the cloud and integration between private cloud and public cloud. After having worked almost 22 years for Nobel as a principal consultant for Nobel, an ICT company in the Netherlands, he recently accepted a new job at Inovativ, the System Center Specialists. He will continue to focus on Hyper-V, System Center Management, Servers, Storage and Data Protection. Hans has been a MVP since July 2009. He was also a technical editor for Aidan Finn's book Mastering Hyper-V Deployment and he has been writing and presenting for Hyper-V.nu and on many other occasions. The next opportunity to hear him live is at The Experts Conference 2012 in San Diego (May 2012). MVP changed from Cluster to Virtual Machine in April 2012
Homepage: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=4ACB8EBA-858D-45DB-8170-CE64927CB648
Posts by Hans Vredevoort
Altaro Hyper-V Backup is now launched
Aug 11th
Today Altaro launched their new Hyper-V Backup product. As you can read in the review we wrote earlier, the virtual machine backup software includes support for Cluster Shared Volumes and the very useful Fire Drill feature. Altaro offers 3 editions including a freeware edition. Pricing can be found at the end of this page:
http://www.altaro.com/News_Altaro-Software-brings-Hyper-V-backup-to-SMBs.php
Altaro was kind enough to offer Hyper-V.nu a complimentary unlimited license for Altaro Hyper-V Backup which is worth $445
| Full Altaro Hyper-V Backup Give Away License
I am giving away a full license to the reader who retweets my announcement on Twitter and gets retweeted by the tweeter with the highest number of followers. You can tweet as much as you like. Please send me an e-mail with a copy of this RT to hans [at] hyper-v.nu before Sunday the 14th 2011 noon CET By all means, go to http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v-backup/ for more information on the product! |
Reviewing Altaro Hyper-V Backup including CSV support
Aug 2nd
Back in May, Femi Adegoke reviewed an early beta version of Altaro Hyper-V Backup which was geared to easily backup & recover Hyper-V guests using the Hyper-V VSS Writer. Now Femi submitted his second guest blog focusing on how to protect guests in a clustered Hyper-V environment.
By Femi Adegoke
This is a follow up to our previous blog post from May 2011:
http://www.hyper-v.nu/archives/hvredevoort/2011/05/altaro-hyper-v-backup-review/
One interesting feature in this Altaro Hyper-V Backup release is support for CSV:
http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v-backup/
The current revision of the software is 2.0.8.0 BETA, download size is approximately 12.1 MB.
Our test was performed on a Dell 4 node Hyper-V cluster running 2008 R2 SP1 with a few virtual machines.
Installation
Installing the software was fast & easy and involved only a few mouse clicks. Can you believe that?
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This software installs in less than 3 minutes per node.
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No agent is required inside each guest
Dashboard
Dashboard view (this so schweeet…)
Hyper-V Network Optimizations series is complete
Jul 31st
I recently pointed your attention to a very interesting blog series on Hyper-V Network Optimizations.
In the sixth and final blog on this topic Christian Edwards focuses on monitoring network performance of your virtual machines, virtual switches and physical network adapters.
Here’s a link to my blog post listing the blog series:
http://www.hyper-v.nu/archives/hvredevoort/2011/05/definitive-guide-to-hyper-v-networking-optimizations/
Third MVP Award for Cluster
Jul 1st
Am I happy? Yes of course! An MVP Award gives unprecedented access to Microsoft, its product and marketing teams, the wealth of information and easy access to all other MVP’s).
I am proud of this award although I realize you have to work very hard to maintain the award. The coming year will be important for Windows, for Virtualization, for Virtualization Management and Storage. These are the subjects I love so much that my work really doesn’t really feel like work.
I will start my new job at INOVATIV on August 1st 2011, which has a fantastic team of Microsoft experts and a record number of MVP’s on board. The future is bright!
HP P6000 EVA and Microsoft Hyper-V
Jun 21st
In a recent technical brief HP zooms in on the new HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array combined with
Hyper-V. The paper discusses a number of topics related to HP’s new storage array:
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Thin Provisioning
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LUN Migration
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FC, iSCSI and FCoE
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Performance
HP Discover 2011: last chance to win an HP Envy Notebook
Jun 21st
During my “social media” coverage of HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas, HP offered a few brand-new HP Microservers and HP Envy notebooks. Well, I was one of the lucky bloggers! My contributions have awarded me the HP Envy notebook and now it is my turn to re-award this prize to one of our readers!!
$1050 worth! Click on this picture for awesome specs!
Quite a number of you have started to follow me and retweeted my #hpdiscover messages, but I really need a lot more response before I can select a winner. Therefore, I have decided to extend the promotion until July 1st 00:00 CET.
What can you do to win this fantastic notebook?
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Tweet the following message including the hashtags at least three times:
RT @hvredevoort Win an HP Envy notebook!! Visit http://www.hyper-v.nu & find out why Hyper-V is such a good fit with HP #HPDiscover #hyperv -
Visit the http://www.hyper-v.nu blog and leave a message on this blog explaining why you think HP (servers/storage/network) and Microsoft Hyper-V are such a good fit
On the 1st of July I will select one lucky follower who has retweeted the above exact message at least three times AND has given the best reply to this blog promoting the combination of HP and Hyper-V
Excluded are my family, my co-bloggers at @hypervnu including myself of course.
I can surely recommend the DiscoveringHP metablog created by one of the HP Discover 2011 bloggers: @freitasm (Mauricio Freitas). DiscoveringHP is a great collection of all the bloggers’ contributions during HP Discover 2011.
The 10 selected contributors are:
My son Jelle Vredevoort has drawn Pete Zerger as the winner of the HP Envy notebook. It will be shipped to you from HP in the United States. Congratulations and thanks everyone for your great contributions.
Sanbolic releases Melio version 3.5
Jun 20th
Today Sanbolic announced the availability of its latest version of its distributed clustered file system Melio version 3.5, which is currently the best available alternative for Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes. I have helped Sanbolic test and improve some of its earlier versions and was very impressed.
Co-founder and CEO of Sanbolic, Momchil Michailov just informed me that both DPM 2010 and Symantec BackupExec are supported, that the product will ship before the end of the week. Sanbolic has much more to offer that simply to replace CSV. If you haven’t looked at this product and are thinking of building large Hyper-V clusters, VDI or SQL deployments where enterprise ready storage is expected without the compromises, I strongly advise you to start evaluating Sanbolic’s file system Melio version 3.5
If you need any assistance with testing this product or writing a design, don’t hesitate to contact me and make me part of your project.
PS
I have no shares in Sanbolic (although maybe I should) 
Live Migration of Hyper-V VM’s with 3PAR across datacenters
Jun 9th
In November 2009 I met Matthias Popp from HP Labs at Microsoft TechEd 2009 in Berlin. During that event he showed me the first example of a live migration of Hyper-V Virtual Machines between two datacenters. The setup demonstrated a multi-site cluster, two HP EVA storage arrays with Continuous Access and HP Cluster Extensions (CLX) which takes care of the storage failover if one of the datacenter fails or when the storage has to be taken down for maintenance at one location.
This week at HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas, I talked to Matthias again. HP announced that similar functionality is now available for HP 3PAR storage and was really the first integration created for the newly acquired Cloud Storage platform.
In this video Matthias shows how a stock trading system runs in several VMs in one datacenter and how they are live migrated to the other datacenter without losing its availability or its performance. The VM’s run on top op Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V hosts and are migrated via the built-in Cluster Administrator.
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Bloggers in the new HP POD
Jun 9th
During the HP Discover event five bloggers toured the Expo and tried out the new HP EcoPOD
It’s a complete datacenter in a box! HP calls it the world’s most efficient data center.
Unlike traditional brick and mortar data centers, the HP POD 240a packs ten times the IT capacity into a compact, modular, ultra efficient package.
- Lightning fast deployment – up to 88% faster
- A quarter of the cost – up to 75% savings
- Near perfect energy efficiency – up to 95% less energy
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HP EVA P6000 details live from HP Discover 2011
Jun 8th
This morning I attended a session about HP StorageWorks EVA feature enhancements. I will recap some of the details discussed in that session. After a short introduction by Tom Joyce, VP of StorageWorks Marketing, Joseph Algieri, Master Solution Architect at HP continued the presentation. Also Sheridan Kooyers, Master Firmware Architect for EVA at HP was available for answering questions. Sheridan is responsible for Continuous Access and is now working on VAAI development integration.
EVA has been HP’s enterprise storage flagship it was introduced in 2001, celebrating its 10 year anniversary. Their first models were the EVA3000 and EVA5000. Meanwhile 100.000 EVA’s have been sold to a large and very loyal customer base. HP have been talking to lot of customers and have organized focus groups. HP also learnt a great deal from the engineers of the acquired storage companies LeftHand, IBRIX and 3PAR. The storage engineering team has grown considerably. Large investments have been made in the product to again focus to deliver quality.
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