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February 2009 - Posts

New virtualboy.tv video: Hyper-V and Pass-Through Disks

Posted Friday, February 27, 2009 5:11 PM by mattmcspirit
Video #9 in the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V series, is this video focussed on the use of Pass Through Disks with Hyper-V.  All the videos so far have used the .vhd file format for the virtual machines, of which there are 2 types; dynamic, and fixed.  Read More...
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Microsoft Partner Network

Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:27 PM by mattmcspirit
I received a funny email the other day, via my blog, which, on first glance, said one thing to me.  SPAM.  It went on about viral videos and spoof setups, but I clicked the link anyway – it was only linking to a YouTube video, so, what would Read More...
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Microsoft UK Partners: Become a Data Protection Manager Hero

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:36 PM by mattmcspirit
DPM is one of those technologies that not enough people know about.  Those that do know about it, and understand how it works, along with how it’s licensed, quickly see the benefits of the technology, particularly when customers have infrastructures Read More...
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Explore the Future of Virtualisation…

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:08 PM by mattmcspirit
  Are you free (and in the London area) on the 20th March?  If so, one of our Partner’s, VirtualizeIT, along with a host of household names (well, in the virtualisation world anyway!) such as VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Falconstor, IBM and more, Read More...
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New virtualboy.tv video: Hyper-V Failover Clustering with Sanbolic Kayo FS

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:37 PM by mattmcspirit
Hot on the heels of my announcement a few days back , I’m pleased to announce a new addition to virtualboy.tv.  This video, builds on #7 in the series ( Hyper-V: Multiple VMs per LUN ) by showcasing how the use of a 3rd Party Clustered File System, Read More...
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More Microsoft Virtualisation UK Unplugged Dates Added

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:46 AM by mattmcspirit
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, or if you’ve seen me present before, you’ll have seen me go on about this ‘Datacenter to the Desktop’ approach to Microsoft Virtualisation , and how we have pretty much all the components you’d need to build Read More...
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Thriving with Technology

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:03 AM by mattmcspirit
Are you in IT?  Thinking about getting into IT?  Where do you start?  How do you develop in the future?  If you’re already in IT, how do you build on your investments so far? These are just some of the questions that are answered at Read More...
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Announcing virtualboy.tv!

Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 5:02 PM by mattmcspirit
For the last few weeks, in any spare moment I’ve had, I’ve been working away on a little side project to help enable our Partners and Customers to better understand our Virtualisation technologies.  Today, I’m happy to announce the launch of virtualboy.tv. Read More...
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Windows 7 Beta: Going…Going…G…

Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 5:05 PM by mattmcspirit
That’s right folks – you’ve only a few more days to grab the beta of Windows 7 – if you don’t get it soon ( before 10th February! ), you’ll have to wait for the Release Candidate I think, unless of course, you’re an MSDn / TechNet subscriber, in which Read More...
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Hyper-V and NIC Teaming Part II

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:17 PM by mattmcspirit
Just hours after I posted about Patrick’s work with the Broadcom NIC Teaming solution for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, he’s done it again ! Well, technically, it’s HP this time, but Patrick does work for them :-).  They’ve published guidance on NIC Read More...
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Microsoft UK Partners: Windows 7 Online Readiness

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:52 PM by mattmcspirit
Windows 7 is coming fast.  The beta has been available for a few weeks now, and there are newsgroups, forums and blogs popping up all over the place, talking about features, functionality, and providing feedback. What about Partners? Readiness has Read More...
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Article: Hyper-Scalability for Virtual Machine I/O

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:09 PM by mattmcspirit
Using Virtual Service Clients and Virtual Service Providers Microsoft’s Hyper-V creates a low-overhead environment for virtual machines that can provide a high degree of scalability on a state-of-the-art SAN. A colleague here at MS UK forwarded me a link Read More...
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Hyper-V and Failover Clustering Guidance Posted

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 1:08 PM by mattmcspirit
Great content on the TechNet site: Design for a Failover Cluster in Which All Nodes Run Hyper-V Requirements and Recommendations for Failover Clusters in Which All Nodes Run Hyper-V    Checklist: Failover Cluster in Which the Servers Run Hyper-V Read More...
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Free Microsoft Virtualisation eBook – Desktop to the Datacenter

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:22 PM by mattmcspirit
I found this via Patrick Lownds’ MVUG blog – looks like a beauty!  (The book, not Patrick ;-)) Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions The above eBook is available for free if you register at http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urmvs17u33 .  Read More...
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Hyper-V and NIC Teaming

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:56 AM by mattmcspirit
Patrick   (of Microsoft Virtualisation User Group fame!) pinged me an email referencing a blog post he’d written over at the MVUG blog, covering his experiences (so far) with Broadcom NIC Teaming and Hyper-V.  I didn’t even know Patrick was Read More...
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Finally Shipped – The System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Reporting MP for System Center Operations Manager 2007

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:39 AM by mattmcspirit
I think that’s my longest title ever!  I could have acronym’d it up I suppose, but that would have been too easy :-)    System Center Operations Manager 2007 has been out for a fair while now.  It’s had it’s SP1 update, and now it’s Read More...
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My Current Presentation Deck

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:12 AM by mattmcspirit
Whenever I deliver a presentation with Partners and Customers, one of the requests I receive is, can I have the deck.  So, through the power of my blog, and a bit of jiggery-pokery with SkyDrive , I’ve uploaded my latest deck up onto the web, for Read More...
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Useful Article on Planning an SCVMM 2008 Deployment

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:04 AM by mattmcspirit
  This article was sent around internally a week or so back, and having given it a quick read, I thought it was useful to share. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc793146.aspx The article is divided into a couple of key sections: Planning Read More...
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Hyper-V Clustering – Virtual Machine Failover Behaviour

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:01 AM by mattmcspirit
When you create a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster, with 3 nodes or more, and start running virtual machines on those nodes, what happens when one of those nodes fails? Well, as you’d expect, the VMs on the now-down-physical-node, reboot onto another Read More...
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