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If you are in some way dealing with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 and probably now exploring Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, you are by no means able to avoid the blogs, whitepapers, books and tweets written by Aidan Finn. In 2010 Aidan asked me to be a technical editor for his Mastering Hyper-V Deployment…
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As you can see from the screenshot, only a few tickets are left for the Hyper-V.nu event on April 16th, 2013. The event will be presented in Dutch which is unfortunate for several of our followers in the neighboring countries who wanted to attend. I hope to convince my fellow speakers to present in English…
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For Windows Server 2012 clusters it was still very difficult to find a complete list of hotfixes. In the past there were blogs and other locations for Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and clusters, but not always authorized by Microsoft. This could cause a trust issue for customers who don’t want to rely on some…
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When you configure Live Migration settings on a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host then you have two options for authentication of Live Migration sessions: Use Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) Use Kerberos Kerberos is my recommendation to customers. This is more secure than CredSSP. However the Kerberos option requires constrained delegation. If you do not…
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Today I received news that EMC has released its latest version of the VNX Operating System which covers NAS and Block functionality (VNX OE 32/8) and Maintenance Release 1 (MR1). If you are an EMC customer, this important release is now available for download: For Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V customers this is especially very good…
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Just in time for a new project for a Dutch municipality, involving HP c7000, HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8, HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, HP released a new firmware ISO and a new HP ProLiant Service Pack. With version 2013.02.0 (19 Feb 2013) HP adds Windows Server 2012 support for the following…
about 3 months ago - 4 comments
[UPDATE 1/15/2013]: See problems reported after installing this hotfix at end of this forum post. I have opened a line with the product team to find out what is going on [UPDATE 2/15/2013]: We are now exactly 1 month after I warned you to be very careful with installing http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2799728/en-us as it caused a severe…
about 3 months ago - 2 comments
In this two-part blog article we will take a look at 5Nine Security Manager for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. In the first part I will give a global overview and take a look at the installation of this product. In the second part we will take a look at the configuration of this interesting solution.…
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EMC announced SMB 3.0 support in their EMC VNXe series! As we can read in the published whitepaper the VNXe series now support the SMB 3.0 protocol that was introduced with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. As of VNXe Operating Environment version 2.4 the SMB 3.0 protocol is enabled by default. For all the…
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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 new HP DL 360 G8p servers with 256Gb Memory and two six-core processors. Networking is based on 10Gb Emulex NICs for…
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