Last year we renewed our SAN storage and our backup systems. They had been serving us for 5 years and where truly end of life as both technologies uses are functionally obsolete in the current era of virtualization and private … Continue reading
Windows Server 2012 brings us many new capabilities and one of those is port mirroring. You can now configure a virtual machine NIC (vNIC) who’s traffic you want to monitor as the source in the Advanced Features of the Network … Continue reading
In November 2012 during Experts2Experts Virtualization Conference in Hamburg a couple of fellow MVPs (Aidan Finn aka @joe_elway, Carsten Rachfahl aka @hypervserver, Thomas Maurer aka @ThomasMaurer) I delivered a keynote and a master class on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. During … Continue reading
Introduction Whether you realize this or not but our trusted old VHD format is getting a bit old in the tooth. As a matter of fact it has been around since the last century. It has served us well but … Continue reading