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Another “Myth Buster” - Yeah Right!

Extra Layers – cost more – Bah Rubbish !! It is the Enterprise features that Hyper-V (even in R2 – that to remind you all is at least 6 months away) does not have - that makes it all worthwhile! Over …

  • Virtualization
  • Windows
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
3 min read

Is P2V always the best solution?

I saw this post post on Simon Gallagher’s Blog Using Virtualization to Extend The Hardware Lifecycle. Simon made a good point. Can we take the physical hardware out of the equation? Well I guess …

  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Virtualization
  • Windows
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Azure… and Hyper-V

Last week Azure went down for 22 hours – and this Microsoft’s Cloud solution. Reading Hoff’s post I learned that the reason that this happened was: What Happened? During a routine operating system …

  • Microsoft
  • Virtualization
  • Hyper-V
  • Windows
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SCVMM 2008 R2 Beta

I found this in my inbox this morning ( I saw that this was mentioned here as well: Dear SCVMM beta tester, As a past beta tester of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 software, we wanted …

  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Virtualization
  • Windows
3 min read

Excessive CPU usage on Domain Controllers

Now this has nothing to do with Virtualization, but it is still very handy, so I thought I would share it with you all. Yesterday I started to receive alerts from our monitoring system that our …

  • Microsoft
  • Windows
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
2 min read

Hyper-V Technologies - Wrong Information

Well this is nothing new, we see this all the time, but today it really annoyed me. During a lecture I participated in today with a Microsoft Partner at Microsoft offices in Israel today, one of the …

  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Hyper-V
  • Windows
3 min read

The Future of Cluster Services

For those of you don’t already know, VMware have a new feature coming out in there next version. I am lucky enough to be part of the Beta group who is busy testing this. The feature is called …

  • Microsoft
  • Virtualization
  • Windows
  • Administration
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A new free Ebook

Microsoft have published a new book - granted it is on Virtualization - the Microsoft way, but still should be something to go over. Understanding Microsoft Virtualization. This is the book for IT …

  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Virtualization
  • Hyper-V
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Community Technology Preview-3 (CTP3) of Windows PowerShell V2

So the folks at Microsoft have been busy, just in time for Christmas and the Holidays. Well you know that is the advantage of living in Israel (and being Jewish…) - we don’t celebrate …

  • Microsoft
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • Windows
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Time to Change the Passwords Again...

Do you all know how one of the biggest headaches you have is changing all the service accounts and administrative passwords on a regular basis? Well I did that this week. This entailed changing …

  • Active Directory
  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Scripting