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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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Having presented at TEC2011 in Frankfurt for the first time was a good experience and I was very pleased to be asked to speak again. This time in San Diego in the US. Join us for The Experts Conference for Virtualization 2012, April 29-May 2 in San Diego! TEC is the leading advanced training conference
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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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I expect many of you have tried out the new version of VMM 2012 that will be generally available before long. It is an incredible piece of software that I have blogged about several times just after the first general beta since it arrived about one year ago. But there is one thing it cannot
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Yesterday Microsoft released the first consumer beta of Windows Server 8. Here on Hyper-V.nu we have discussed allready some nice features of this new rocking Operating System. Now Microsoft also published more information about the new features of Windows Server 8. Two virtualization related innovations are described in a so called ‘Test Lab Guide’: Demonstrate
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