Note: Before you go down this particular rabbit hole. Three words of advice. Firstly, even with all the CPU accelerators in place and as many […]
Travails in Hyper-V R2eality: Tales of the Red Mist: A Messcellany
Do you geddit? Miscellany and Messcellany. It’s wots called a pun my friend. In my travails in Hyper-V R2eality, I’ve come across of number of […]
Hyper-V R2eality: VMs not so hot after all…
When I first got into virtualization with VMware, one of the most compelling advantages was the fact that the VM is just a process (albeit […]
Hyper-V R2eality: On the long, long road to Damascus – Hyper-V Gen1 conversion to Gen2
Acknowledgement: I’d like to recognise John Howard’s TechNet Blog series about Gen2 VMs on Windows Hyper-V 2012 R2. Specifically two posts about conversion. Without these […]
Microsoft Hyper-V R2eality – To P2V or not P2V, that is the question…
One of the more recent oddities from the Microsoft Server 2012 Hyper-V R2 (Chandler Aside: Can the product name get any longer?) release is Microsoft’s […]
Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2eality – What works best? – Upgrade or Clean Install?
You can read this whole blogpost if you like. But here’s the very short version. Clean install. Nothing has really changed in terms of upgrading Microsoft […]
Hyper-V R2ality: A Simple Plan – Hyper-V Recovery Manager Preview
Because what could possibly go wrong? Note: I found a number of different articles and tutorials useful in my experiments. As ever there isn’t really […]
Windows Hyper-V 2012 Replicas: Things aren’t always as they seem
As part of my travails in Hyper-V Reality series I decided to take a look at Windows Hyper-V Replicas. The equivalent feature in VMware is […]
Microsoft #Fail Over Clustering: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V R2 (Part Two)
IMPORTANT: One thing I learned after my setting up my storage is that disks that wind-up using the Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) type must be […]
I can’t get no validation: Windows Hyper-V R2eality – #Fail Over Clustering
Microsoft’s new clustering technology is taking the industry by storm — NT professionals widely implementing the product into their networking environment. Clustering is an imperative […]