Snapshots happened to be my favorite functionality out of the numerous stellar features that come with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012. When you’re experimenting in your Hyper-V test lab, snapshots become your “best friend” for many reasons. First, snapshots help you save “places in time” as well as help...

Hyper-V Replica is new in Windows Server 2012. It is an asynchronous, virtual machine replication technology that is designed for business continuity and disaster recovery. Dan does a great job of telling you about it in his bonus part in the Virtualization Series, read on… http://itproguru.com/expert...

Yung takes a good look at Hyper-V Replica Broker scenarios, read on - http://aka.ms/ReplicaBroker Get the whole series at Dan Stolts’s post (0 of 20) at: http://itproguru.com/expert/2013/03/become-a-virtualization-expert-with-20-days-of-server-virtualization-virtexpert-itproguru-part-0-of-20/ To download...

  Keith builds upon Matt Hester ’s, recent article on Hyper-V Host Clustering as part of our latest article series, Become a Virtualization Expert in 20 Days! Keith extends the topic to explore some new features in Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering that enhance Virtual Machine Guest Clustering...

Matt Hester does it again with an excellent post taking a look at how Hyper-V takes advantages of some of these enhancements and how you can use Failover Clustering and Hyper-V to truly beef up your virtualization environment.  Read on…. http://blogs.technet.com/b/matthewms/archive/2013/03/20/20...

Live Migration is the Microsoft Hyper-v feature where you move a running virtual machine from one physical host to another physical host while the VM continues to run.  Check out more from Brian below…. http://mythoughtsonit.com/2013/03/step-by-step-high-availability-live-migration-part-12-of-20...

Harold explains NIC Teaming and how it relates to virtual networking, http://blogs.technet.com/b/haroldwong/archive/2013/03/15/server-virtualization-series-networking-nic-teaming-part-10-of-20-by-harold-wong.aspx This article take a deep look into the NIC teaming between Windows Server 2008 and 2012...

    Tommy posts 9 of 20 in a series around virtual networking in Hyper-V.. Read on… http://virtuallycloud9.com/?p=1281 Get the whole series at Dan Stolts’s post (0 of 20) at: http://itproguru.com/expert/2013/03/become-a-virtualization-expert-with-20-days-of-server-virtualization-virtexpert...

Brian Lewis posts 8 of 20 in a series of “how to’s” on Virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V. Read on… http://mythoughtsonit.com/2013/03/step-by-step-storage-live-migration-part-8-of-20/ Get the whole series at Dan Stolts’s post (0 of 20) at: http://itproguru.com/expert/2013/03/become-a-virtualization...

Keith Mayer does it again speaking SCSI again with Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V – Read on…. http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/03/12/speaking-iscsi-with-windows-server-2012-and-hyper-v.aspx#.UUedcWbD-ot To download the 180-Day Windows Server 2012 evaluation bits go to:  http:...

Bob Hunt brings up Part 6 of the series - thanks Bob, nice article.  Read on…. http://blogs.technet.com/b/bobh/archive/2013/03/27/virtualization-storage-smb-20-days-of-server-virtualization-part-6-of-20.aspx Get the whole series at Dan Stolts’s post (0 of 20) at: http://itproguru.com/expert/2013...

Tommy Patterson originally wrote this article in answering requests during his Pro Camp events, but felt it needed added to our series this month’s Virtualization Series… check it out - . http://virtuallycloud9.com/index.php/2013/03/hyper-v-datastores-wait-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-datastores/ Download...

By Tommy Patterson and Blain Barton As part of our Migration and Deployment Series today we shift the focus to Hyper-V migrations.  First let’s start with a chart on what is possible for upgrading in place: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions of Windows Server running Hyper-V are supported...

This Virtualization User Group (VTUG) is looking for the best online technical content in the world. Why? Because our members spend hours upon hours doing research duplicating the research process literally millions of times! VTUG wants to aggregate the best content on our site so our members have a...

The system is designed to demonstrate how to leverage the new PowerShell present in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. To get the same scripts go to: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Virtual-Machine-Topology-edd9883a VMT can build a series of Virtual Machines,including inner VM automation...

Here’s the rollup for the “Bare Metal to Private Cloud” – 8-Part Series TechNet Webcast: Bare Metal to Private Cloud (Part 8 of 8): Integrating System Center 2012 TechNet Webcast: Bare Metal to Private Cloud (Part 7 of 8): Installing and Configuring S ... TechNet Webcast: Bare Metal to Private Cloud...

Download: WMV | WMA In this session, we configure the many integration points between the Microsoft System Center components and also between System Center and Active Directory Domain Services.

Download: WMV | WMA In this session, we show how to install a highly available Microsoft System Center 2012 - Orchestrator and installing the System Center and other integration packs for automated administration of the private cloud.

Download: WMV | WMA In this session, we show how to install a highly available Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager, including the configuration management database (CMDB), data warehouse, reporting, self-service portal, and service catalog.

Download: WMV | WMA In this session, we show how to install a highly available Microsoft System Center 2012 - Operations Manager and deploy agents to manage the private cloud.

Download: WMV | WMA In this session, we take a look at how to create a Hyper-V host cluster and install a highly available cluster by using Virtual Machine Manager, a component of Microsoft System Center 2012.

Download: WMV | WMA In this session, we take a look at the end state of managing a private cloud with Microsoft System Center, including the Cloud Services management pack. The sessions that follow this session describe how to go from bare metal to a private cloud managed by System Center.

(Part 14) Virtual Network Management and MAC Address Range This concludes the full FAB 14 series, to see all of the FAB 14 in order go here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/blainbar/archive/2012/05/14/blain-s-hyper-v-fab-14-screencasts-launched-today.aspx Download: WMV | WMA In this screencast...

(Part 13) Configuring Remote Server Administration Download: WMV | WMA In this screencast, we’ll take look at remote management with Hyper-V Manager and then remote management with Remote Desktop. For more information or resources on this topic, be sure to check out this documentation...

(Part 12) Backup and Restoring a Virtual Machine with Windows Server Backup Download: WMV | WMA In this screencast, we’ll look at backup and then restoring a Virtual Machine. For more information or resources on this topic, be sure to check out this documentation from TechNet: ...