Cristian Edwards

Softward Defined Datacenter and Hybrid Clouds

Hyper-V 2012 R2 Network Architectures (Part 8 of 7) – Bonus

Hi again, this post was not planned but today one MVP (Hans Vredevoort https://www.hyper-v.nu/ )...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 02/27/2014

Hyper-V 2012 R2 Network Architectures Series (Part 7 of 7) – Conclusions and Summary

Congratulations. You reached the last of these 7 posts covering the most common Hyper-V Network...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 02/23/2014

Hyper-V 2012 R2 Network Architectures Series (Part 6 of 7) – Converged Network using CNAs

The last Hyper-V Network Architecture that I want to discuss is when the hardware combines the...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 02/23/2014

Hyper-V 2012 R2 Network Architectures Series (Part 5 of 7) – Converged Networks using Dynamic QoS

Part 4 of this series covered the scenario where the Backend QoS had to be Static. Now let’s take a...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 02/22/2014

Hyper-V 2012 R2 Network Architectures Series (Part 4 of 7) – Converged Networks using Static Backend QoS

Ok. We have discussed the pros and cons of Non-Converged Networks and Converged Networks with SCVMM...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 02/22/2014

Hyper-V 2012 R2 Network Architectures Series (Part 3 of 7) – Converged Networks Managed by SCVMM and PowerShell

Following the same rule from the previous post about Non Converged Network Architectures, let me add...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 02/22/2014

Hyper-V 2012 R2 Network Architectures Series (Part 2 of 7) – Non-Converged Networks, the classical but robust approach

As an IT guy I have the strong belief that engineers understand graphics and charts much better than...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 02/22/2014

Hyper-V 2012 R2 Network Architectures Series (Part 1 of 7) – Introduction

Hi Virtualization gurus, Since 6 months now, I’ve been working on the internal readiness about...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 02/22/2014

Hyper-V Manangement Pack Extensions 2012 / 2012 R2 released

Hello Virtualization Community, I am happy to announce that we have published the last release of...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 12/08/2013

Windows Server 2012 SMB Multichannel and CSV Redirected traffic caveats

CSV (Cluster Shared Volumes) volumes were introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2 to enable...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 11/05/2013

New Hyper-V 2012 Books

Good morning from some European airport! Is always funny to write while waiting for the plane… ;)...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 07/11/2013

Hyper-V 2012 Management Pack Extensions

Hello Virtual community! Today I am happy to announce the release of the Hyper-V Management Pack...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 06/20/2013

Validating Hyper-V 2012 and Failover Clustering Hotfixes and updates with Powershell - Part 2

Hello again! During the last week I did some test with the script and I realize that is not handy to...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 05/31/2013

Validating Hyper-V 2012 and Failover Clustering 2012 Hotfixes and updates with Powershell

Hi! I know I didn’t write anything for a long time but now I am back again. The good thing about...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 05/24/2013

Listing all your VHD and VHDX files from your Hyper-V Clusters in Windows Server 2012

Hi again, In my last post I explained how to list all your virtual disks from one standalone Hyper-V...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 12/18/2012

Listing all your VHD and VHDX files from your Hyper-V Hosts in Windows Server 2012

Hello Hyper-V fans! As you know, Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is available since past October and...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 12/11/2012

Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions RTM released

Hello, I am glad to announce the RTM release of the Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions for...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 03/06/2012

Happy new year and stay tuned for what is coming with W8 and SCVMM 2012

  2011 is finishing and I am really happy to see how Microsoft Virtualization is being...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 12/23/2011

New Virtualization PFE blog

  Hello virt community, Today I am happy to announce that a great resource was born few days...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 08/08/2011

Hyper-V Networking Optimizations part 6 of 6 (Monitoring Hyper-V Network consumption)

On this last post I am going to talk about what counters should be used to monitor the Network...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 07/18/2011

Hyper-V Networking Optimizations part 5 of 6 (Features compatibility matrix)

  Once you have configured each feature on your Hyper-V Servers maybe you are wondering how...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 05/31/2011

Hyper-V Networking Optimizations part 4 of 6 (Jumbo Frames)

  One network optimization that we can configure on Hyper-V are the Jumbo Frames. Although we...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 05/05/2011

Hyper-V Networking Optimizations part 3 of 6 (RSS)

  In this post you are going to find what settings you need to configure to enable RSS. Receive...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 04/20/2011

Hyper-V Networking Optimizations Part 2 of 6 (VMQ)

  Continuing the Networking Series with Virtual Machine Queues. In this table you will find...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 04/12/2011

Hyper-V Networking Optimizations Part 1 of 6

I am still working on this series part. Sorry for the inconvenience. You still can find the script...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 04/08/2011

Hyper-V BPA HTML report

  Hello again and happy 2011. Coming back from holidays I’ve decided to contribute to the...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 01/11/2011

Hyper-V Integration Components version list table

  Would you want to know what version of Hyper-V are you running right now? This is a table to...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 12/24/2010

August Hyper-V Rollup Package (kb 2264080)

  Yesterday the Hyper-V Product Team announced a handy Hyper-V Rollup update which includes the...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 08/24/2010

Hyper-V Dynamic Memory

  As you already know, the product group announced the Dynamic Memory feature for Hyper-V with...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 08/19/2010

Hyper-V Networking posts list

During my last 2 years working with Hyper-V I’ve done hundred of searches on the web looking for any...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 08/18/2010

P2V with SCVMM & VS2005 to Hyper-V Slides

Hello again, Today I am starting to share with you some presentations that I’ve done during the last...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 05/25/2010

Live Migration fail and source node reboot on AMD processor servers

Recently i found several customers that are running Hyper-V R2 under AMD Family 10h processors and...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 05/16/2010

Hyper-V R2 Best Practice Analyzer

At the end of April, the product team announced another tool to make our life easier when doing...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 05/16/2010

New Core Configurator 2.0 for Windows Server Core Lover's

Yesterday was published a useful tool for common administration task on Server Core. The name of the...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 12/03/2009

Monitoring Hyper-V on Server Core using logman

If you are trying to monitor Hyper-V performance and your servers are Server Core you have many...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 11/13/2009

Checking Integration Components version on Hyper-V RTM

One important point to guarantee a good performance of our virtual machines, is to validate that...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 06/12/2009

Windows Server 2008 SP2 RTM on Technet and MSDN

Bueno, para aquellos que dispongan de una subscripción de Technet o de MSDN ya pueden descargarse la...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 05/06/2009

Hyper-V Hotfixes List

  In order to avoid known problems during Hyper-V deployments I really encourage you to apply...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 04/25/2009

My first blog

Good for all those who visit my blog for the first time. This is my christening on blogging with the...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 03/23/2009

Mi Primer blog / My first blog

Good for all those who visit my blog for the first time. This is my christening on blogging with the...

Author: Cristian Edwards Date: 03/23/2009