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On Tuesday, March 19, 2013, Brian Lewis posted Part 12 of the Server Virtualization Serie s on Live Migration.  If you are new to Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V or just haven’t had a chance to look at all the capabilities of Live Migration in Server 2012 Hyper-V, then this is a good read.  Brian...

As most people who work with Server Virtualization realize, storage is one of the biggest components of the architecture.  As VMs grow and the storage used by the Hyper-V host starts to get full, what options are available to the administrator?  One “solution” could be to shut down the VM and...

The concept of Datastores in virtualization is really a VMware “thing” and not so much a Hyper-V thing.  The reason is that the two products do things slightly different and terminology is also different.  For those of you who are coming from a VMware environment into a Hyper-V environment...

A common question I get from folks who are looking to purchase new server hardware to run Server Virtualization workloads is where to spend the money – memory or processor.  I find that in most cases, processor is not the bottleneck, but memory definitely is the limiting factor for how many VMs...

I am holding Office Hours in the Microsoft Tempe Office (60 E. Rio Salado Pkwy., #1200, Tempe, AZ 85281) from 10 AM – 2 PM on the following Mondays in March: March 4, 2013: http://ohours.org/officehours/29244 March 11, 2013: http://ohours.org/officehours/29245 March 18, 2013: http://ohours.org/officehours...

As I mentioned in a post on Friday, March 1st, the US IT Pro Evangelist team is embarking on another team Blog Series for the month of March – Server Virtualization. To get things going with Part 1 of 20 , Kevin Remde did a quick introduction to Hyper-V. I’m sure there are folks who have...

In Part 1 of 3, I documented the steps to install and configure VMware Fusion 5.02 on a Mac. In Part 2 of 3, I documented the steps to install Windows 8 from an ISO into a Fusion Virtual Machine. In this third part, I am documenting the steps to install Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 and Visual...

I have had quite a few people ask me for help configuring Windows 8 on a Mac so they can do Windows 8 and / or Windows Phone development.  I worked with a few of my peers to document the steps for 5 different options – Boot Camp, Parallels, VMware Fusion, VirtualBox and Azure.  I took the lead...

Join me as I interview Principal Program Manager Jeff Woolsey on this episode of TechNet Radio: Virtualization and Cloud Experts Café.  We focused on two topics during this episode – the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter as well as the Extensible Virtual Switch for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012...

I had a chance to sit down with Edwin Yuen, Director of Cloud & Virtualization strategy at Microsoft and chat about the latest announcements made by VMware during VMWorld.  We chatted about vSphere 5.1 features, licensing and pricing model and how this stacks up to Windows Server 2012 .  ...

Recently, VMware launched a campaign and webpage called “Get the Facts – not the Microsoft Hyper-bole”.  On this page, VMware lists five “facts” why VMware is better than Microsoft.  I have wanted to respond to this myself, but being a Microsoft employee, makes it a bit more difficult and of...

I know that a large percentage of Microsoft customers are using VMware as their primary virtualization platform today.  I also believe a good percentage of these customers are using Hyper-V as a secondary hypervisor in lab, test and possibly lower impact production environments.  In fact, I...

I just realized that I never posted my Part 2 for the May / June IT Camps in West Region.  I am very sorry for that so I want to get the information out right now. First, I do have the PPT Presentation that Vision Solution delivered as I have been asked to provide that.  I am embedding right...

I was able to work with Craig Berntson (MVP in Salt Lake City) to add an additional IT Camp to the West Region Schedule.  The additional event will take place on June 21st at Neumont University located at 10701 S. River Front Pkwy., Suite 300 South Jordan, Utah 84095 Registration for the IT Camp...

Thank you to everyone who made it to the IT Camp events in Denver on May 15th and Los Angeles on May 22nd!  We had some great interaction and questions from the folks in attendance at both events.  I promised I would post the deck that I presented once I received approval to do so.  I...

I had the opportunity to participate in the Cloud Intelligence Conference in Anaheim, CA on March 13, 2012.  I presented two sessions and part of the Keynote with Buck Woody (also with Microsoft).  I wanted to follow up and post my PowerPoint decks from my two break out sessions as well as...

On February 13, 2012, I wrote a post titled “ Virtualization Certification(s) – Is it really worth it? ”.  In that post, I mentioned that I have quite a few Microsoft based certifications and was pursuing my VMware VCP5 certification.  I did take the time (and money) to attend the official...

First, let me say that I am a big proponent of technical certifications.  That is the reason why I have my Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) Server Administrator, MCITP Enterprise Administrator and MCITP Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2007 and 2010.  Once upon a time, I also had...