When you are working with Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V you will want to keep an eye on your servers to make sure they are running properly and they are maintained.  In this post I am going to show some of the things that are built-in the server, specifically with PowerShell.  More importantly you are going to learn about what are some of the capabilities with when you introduce System Center 2012 into the mix as well. 

As I wrote in October of last year, SMB is dramatically improved, to learn more about SMB take a look at this article: 31 Days of Our Favorite Things: SMB 3.0 the Glue in Windows Server 2012 .  In this post, you will take a closer look at how Hyper...

Here is a part 17 and Tommy does a great job at taking a look at System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).    He shows how it works with Hyper-V and what you can monitor about your virtualization environments  Check out his post...

One the most important resources to any virtualization environment , is memory.  Even with great tools like dynamic memory it is critical to make sure you monitor to insure your guest systems can run properly.   In this part Harold takes...

Okay, so had to get caught up a bit, officially here is a part 6 and it comes in two parts.  Dan does a great job to show some of the aspects of Hyper-V with Live adding of memory as well live multiple live migrations.  Take a look at his interviews...

Monitoring your Hyper-V resources is important but also putting it in context of your server performance is equally important.  Chris takes a look at how to look at how to monitor CPU resources on Windows Server 2012 and in Hyper-V.  Take a...

In this part Yung takes a look under the covers of Hyper-V .  Specifically he takes a look at the Hyper-V Replica Broker.  This service is required if your using Hyper-V replicas on hyper-v hosts that are clustered.  Take a look at his...

To download a copy of a slide deck: Click on the bottom right of the PowerPoint to “View full-size presentation” In the new browser window go to the menu and click File –> Download a copy Session 1: System Center 2012 SP1 and Azure IaaS Overview Session...

In part 13 I talked about how to cluster your Hyper-V hosts.  You can read that here: 20 Days of Server Virtualization- Your Hyper-V Hosts and Clustering an Availability Story (Part 13 of 20)   In this part Keith takes a look at how to cluster...

One of the features in Windows Server 2012 that got greatly enhanced is the Failover Clustering.  See the bottom of this post for a list of all the new and improved features.    In today’s part we are going to take 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.  With Hyper-V there are two ways you can cluster your environment.  You can cluster the Hyper-v hosts systems or you can cluster the hyper-v guest systems.  Specifically in today’s post we are going to look at Hyper-V hosts and how they can be clustered. 

In this post Brian takes a look at one of my favorite features in Windows Server 2012   Live migration.  Take a look at his post here: Step by Step: High Availability: Live Migration (Part 12 of 20)   We hope you enjoy the series, and if...

As some of you may know I am extremely excited about Windows Azure IaaS and the virtual machines feature (currently in customer preview).  During my sessions I get a lot of the same questions about how Windows Azure IaaS works.  Well I had a chance to do an ask the experts session a couple of weeks ago and I met Narahari Dogiparthi.  Narahari works in our support organization and he focuses on Windows Azure IaaS and get’s all kinds of great questions as well.  He wrote a great little FAQ around windows Azure

In Windows Server 2012 , and in networking in general there has been tremendous strides to improve network teaming.  Virtualization is no different and in this post Harold takes a look at the network teaming built-in to Windows Server 2012 . ...

In Windows Server 2012 , we have really enhanced the Hyper-V role.  One feature in Hyper-V that really got an overhaul is the virtual networking.    From  Virtual Machine Queue, IPsec task offloading, Single-root I/O virtualization...

In the part of the series Brian takes a look at one of the new features in Windows Server 2012 .  The ability to migrate your storage for your virtualization.  Take a look at his post here: Step-by-Step: Storage Live Migration ( Part 8 of 20...

One of the services we introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 was the iSCSI services (which was a free download)  In Windows Server 2012 this is built-in and easy to install.  You can also do a majority of the work in PowerShell.  In this...

Storage and where to put all the components for your virtual machines is key to your virtualization deployment.  In part 5 of the Bob, takes a great look a the different storage options.  What is even more amazing, is a some of the options fit...

Today we take a look at data stores. Tommy does a great post where he talks about datastores…err Folders in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V .  He does a great job of highlighting the differences between Hyper-V and VMware: Hyper-V “Datastores” – Wait...

As IT Pros, we absolutely love building with new technology! In February, my fellow IT Pro Technical Evangelists and I have been worked together on an article series for Migration and Deployment of Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Azure and System...

Today get two posts for the price of one.  Dan and Chris take a great look at Dynamic Memory in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V .  Dan’s post takes you thoroughly through the feature he even does a comparison of Hyper-V Dynamic Memory vs. ESX Overcommit...

So have you ever wanted to add a hard drive to physical system while it is hot (running) but too afraid to try?   Just kidding I know most of you have probably done this at one point or another.  So how do we Hot add stuff to Hyper-V ,...

Hey Everyone I wanted to share with you some conferences coming up soon.  If you are not familiar with TechMentor, it is a great conference for IT Pros.  TechMentor delivers independent, unbiased, and immediately-usable training to IT professionals...

Well another month and another series!  This month we are going to be going through Virtualization and talking about how Windows Server 2012 has changed the game when it comes to Virtualization.  This month we are going to take a look at all...