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A while ago Savision asked me if I would help to write a whitepaper about Hyper-V best practices for them. Of course I said yes to this request and wrote some chapters for the whitepaper. Last week we’ve made the whitepaper final. This whitepaper is neither a tutorial nor step-by-step handbook for common problems. Rather,
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Tomorrow I will fly to Houston from San Diego where I have been staying for a few days after a great TEC2012 event. HP asked me to join them for their HP ProLiant Gen8 Tech Tour. Coming all the way from Europe just for the 2 days would have been crazy, but as I was
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I can recommend an interesting 2-part series of blogs which helps you get a better understanding of the theory behind successful backups. In the first blog on Altaro’s Hyper-V blog, VSS Crash-Consistent Backups are compared to Application-Consistent VSS Backups. When designing any IT solution, many administrators often consider “Backup” to be little more than another
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Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V support the new VHDX Virtual Hard Disk format. If you are interested in the technical details just became available and you can download the VHDX specification: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29681 This specification is released under the Microsoft Open Source Promise (OSP) initiative to help guide development of VHDX virtual hard disk
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[Update: Since I wrote this blog the version of SMB has been updated from 2.2 to 3.0 to reflect the vast amount of changes in the protocol] Today was my first day at MMS2012 in Las Vegas. It is the event for Microsoft System Center and the new 2012 version of the product is inseparable
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This is another installment in my series on Windows 8 Storage & Hyper-V. Previous blogs in the series can be found here: Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – VHDX and PowerShell Part 3 – The Art of Creating a VHD Another promising new storage functionality that can be found in Windows Server 8 is
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In the last blog in my series on Windows 8 storage I already touched upon creating a VHDX with PowerShell 3.0 in Windows Server 8. In this blog I will focus on the subject a little bit more, showing the myriad ways of creating VHDs and show you some powerful commands to create multiple VHD
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On the 11th of April I will present a webinar for Savision about The Top Three Things You Need to Know about Hyper-V in Windows 8. I will address the folowing subjects: Storage – We’ll review the new VHDX virtual disk format, Clustered Shared Volumes version 2 and Live Storage migration Networking – Learn about
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Exactly one year ago Jaap Wesselius and I decided to give our Hyper-V.nu site a new look and we started to combine our blogs. On April 1st, Peter Noorderijk and Maarten Wijsman joined the team and started writing their blogs for Hyper-V.nu. Jaap is primarily occupied with Exchange but writes an occasional blog. We all
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Hans Vredevoort already blogged about how to boot from VHD with Windows 8 Developer Preview. While this is certainly worth a try I installed Windows 8 (Consumer Edition) on another partition. This is relatively simple. Suppose your Windows 7 is running from partition1 and you want Windows 8 to be installed on partition2. Boot the
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