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SCVMM 2012 – Deep Storage Integration
Mar 26th
Many new cool functionalities were added to SCVMM 2012. In this blog I focus on the very deep Storage integration which can be accessed from the Fabric wunderbar.
One of the new features in SCVMM 2012 is integration with SAN storage arrays. The primary reason for this is of course there is not much point in building a Hyper-V Private Cloud without some sort of Fibre Channel, iSCSI or Shared SAS based type of shared storage.
Very much focusing on the standards that are available, Microsoft decided to employ the SMI-S Provider for this purpose, with VDS as a temporary option for backwards compatibility. Apart from managing software I had not had the pleasure to work with SMI-S before and I guess it is new for most of my readers. So let me first delve into what SMI-S really is.
Creating a Cloud in 90 seconds with VMM 2012
Mar 25th
In this video Kenon Owens is interviewed by Symon Perriman, talking about creating a Private Cloud with Virtual Machine Manager in less than 90 seconds! Symon is the guy with the stop-watch!
Go and see this cool video (contains a demo towards the end):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/mms-90-seconds-to-the-cloud-virtual-machine-manager-2012-beta-with-kenon-owens
Keynote HD video Brad Anderson at MMS2011
Mar 22nd
I shot most of Brad Anderson’s keynote. Because I have no editing facility here in Vegas, I’ll just publish the footage as is. The missing parts will be published shortly after.
Part 1: Introduction Video
New announcements for Virtual Machine Manager at MMS2011
Mar 22nd
Today Brad Anderson announced the availability of Virtual Machine Manager 2012 beta which can be downloaded for evaluation purposes. In an email from Carmen Summers who is Program Manager for Virtualization & Datacenter Management, it was stressed that VMM 2012 Eval should not be used for production.
Download location:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0fbb298-8f02-47e7-88be-0614bc44ee32
Getting ready for the third generation of Hyper-V
Jan 27th
Ever since the appearance of Hyper-V in the market, I have been stressing and promoting the blessings of the Microsoft Virtualization platform. I started writing articles and blogs about Hyper-V and joined Jaap Wesselius in the Dutch Hyper-V User Group which assembles quarterly in different parts of the country. We have been presenting Hyper-V and related technologies many times and have grown a small community in the Netherlands. My endeavors have even earned me an MVP, albeit not for Hyper-V but for Cluster. If you meet me on Twitter, you know that whatever I communicate on this social network deals with Hyper-V and System Center related topics. I use it to promote the further growth of Hyper-V.
What’s next?
We have seen Hyper-V version 1 still beta in Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V RTM as an update, the major update Hyper-V R2 and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Now we are looking forward to Hyper-V vNext, “the next version” of Hyper-V, Hyper-V in Windows 8, Hyper-V Next Generation, Hyper-V Cloud, Hyper-V 2012 or whatever the marketing people at Microsoft think will capture our minds. I personally believe not even the word Hyper-V is sacred and could be replaced if it serves a purpose.
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