about 2 months ago - No comments
While cleaning up my mailbox, I found a note to myself dating June 2011 about a few feature requests for the next version of Hyper-V and VMM. While talking to customers throughout the year, I often hear about and collect suggestions and product improvements which I can then pass on to the Hyper-V and System…
about 3 months ago - 1 comment
I admit, you don’t have to remove a non-existent VMM Library Server everyday, but today happened to be such a day. Let me explain what happened. In addition to a SQL Server 2012 AllwaysOn cluster for the VMM database and a VMM 2012 SP1 Failover Cluster, I wanted to also make the VMM Library Server…
about 4 months ago - 1 comment
Kind of quietly or better said unnoticed by many, the list below has been published on two sources (here and here). The list includes KB articles describing a number of issues or support tips regarding System Center 2012 SP1. As to quote the first link “Nothing really major, just a couple support tips and FYIs…
about 7 months ago - 3 comments
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 own pagefile and do not use the host paging mechanism. If you have lots of memory, chances are your pagefile will be way too…
about 8 months ago - No comments
Here is a list of updated documentation for the recently announced System Center 2012 SP1 beta System Center TechCenter: Updated the System Center Home Page to highlight the SP1 release Updated the 2012 Page to include links to the consolidated Supported Configurations Page Highlighted the Chargeback and SPF Cloud Resource Management scenario content TechNet Library:…
about 8 months ago - No comments
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 version of Windows Server 2012. Fortunately SP1 Beta is not restricted to TAP customers, but publicly available. But be careful if…
about 8 months ago - No comments
In less than an hour Windows Server 2012 will be officially launched to the world! You can follow the event live here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/new.aspx starting 8:00 US Pacific Time and 17:00 Central European Time. If you live in the Asia/Australia region, you’ll have a very late night. The launch of a brand new server operating system…
about 11 months ago - 1 comment
Monday June 18 2012 will be the big day for us. Our book Microsoft Private Cloud Computing will be officially available and even a little earlier than expected. Mid-2011 four MVP’s decided to make a joint effort at writing a practical book on deploying a Microsoft Private Cloud. The four authors are: Aidan Finn (MVP…
about 11 months ago - No comments
The company I work for is All In with Microsoft System Center 2012 and it is no surprise that we spend a lot of effort getting across the message that this Microsoft Management suite is what you really need if you build a Microsoft Private Cloud with a heterogeneous landscape of hypervisors, operations systems and…