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Dell AppAssure Universal Backup
Dell AppAssure was the winner of the 2012 Virtualization Review VMworld Best of Breed Awards as the Best Backup and Data Protection Product, which got me thinking what is so special about it. Further, if AppAssure did not have anything special about them Dell would not have enough to reason to happily acquire them back…
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Who’s Really Stuck in the IT Past? VMware vs Microsoft?
I have been enjoying my weekend, when a tweet popped on my Twitter that pointed out to Paul Rubens article titled: “Microsoft or VMware — Who’s Really Stuck in the IT Past?“ which was a respond by Paul on a video released earlier by Microsoft “Don’t get stuck in the IT Past” which can be found at:…
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My Take of infoworld.com Virtualization shoot-out: Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware
Infoworld has published a quite interesting comparison between Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, & VMware at Virtualization shoot-out: Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware. Its quite detailed and the methodologies and comparison basis was documented clearly which make it worth going through. Although I agree with the comparison to a great degree I still had few comments to post…
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Microsoft will not showcase Hyper-V at VMworld
For the second year, Microsoft will not bring their Hyper-V to VMworld as per reuters.com. The fun part behind it Microsoft claim that VMware does not allow competing products to be shown in VMworld, where VMware deny that. To make the argument more fun, Citrix will be presenting their Xen Desktop in VMworld which compete…
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Are Microsoft really better at virtualizing their own products?
As our company is a partner of VMware, Citrix, & Microsoft. Yop, you heard it all of them at one shop. I get to visit many customers & try to help them find the best virtualization product for their enviornment. Lately, I have noticed a tendancy of many customers saying, “I will go Hyper-V as…
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DHCP is not working on MS Windows 2008 Hyper-V
I have been hearing many IT Professionals on many forums on the web complaining that their DHCP Server which is setup at the parent partition of their MS Windows 2008 Hyper-V Server is not working. Further more many of them has reported an error similar to the below one in their error logs: 1041: The…
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Sony VAIO laptops disabled Intel VT
This article title say “Sony VAIO laptops disabled Intel VT“, but what should that mean to you. It should mean the world to a lot of us. It should mean think twice trice before you buy a Sony VAIO laptop, due to the amount of limitation that come with disabling Intel VT. Ok, let’s see…
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Finaly Microsoft opens Hyper-V code to the Linux community
In a very interesting article by Jeffrey Schawartz in Readmondmag.com, has published an interesting news about Microsoft’s decision – “unthinkable” until a few days ago – MS “open” more than 20,000 lines of code to the Linux community under the license GPLv2 (General Public License version 2). The code, published on Monday, includes three device…
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Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V is now offered 4 free
Citrix Systems, Inc. has just made available to the general public, Citrix Essentials for HyperV – Express Edition version, for free. The new version of Express Edition is available for immediate download and includes Citrix StorageLink technology. With StorageLink, Windows administrators can dramatically simplify storage management. The Express Edition version of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V…
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MS Hyper-V Crashes under heavy load
This video is just what the title said, MS Hyper-V Crashes under heavy load. Watch out what a mess you are planning to go into!!!!! I expect to see too many comments on this one, don’t get me disappointed :).
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Building a Cluster with Hyper-V and Server Core (Part 3) and Creating a Windows Server 2008 Cluster
Here is the third and last article for the how to build a cluster with Server Core and Hyper-V. If you followed the steps correctly from the beginning, you should get a perfect cluster. If not, go back and make sure you didn’t skip any steps.
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Building a Cluster with Hyper-V and Server Core (Part 2) and Creating a Windows Server 2008 Cluster
Check out part 2 of the “How to Build a Cluster Series”. This article includes step-by-step instructions, images, and lots of useful information. Part 3 coming soon!
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Building a Cluster with Hyper-V & Server Core (Part 1) and Creating a Windows Server 2008 Cluster
This is the first of three articles that will show you how to build a cluster with Hyper-V and Server Core. Included are step-by-step instructions and diagrams to make the process easier to understand and follow.
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Hyper-V Live Migration vs. Quick Migration
In this article, you will find a very detailed explanation about the differences between Hyper-V Quick Migration and long waited Live Migration (Similar to VMware VMotion). Contrary to what a lot of people might think, these two process are not the same thing; in fact, they are completely different. Find out how, here.
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Hyper-V: Questions and Answers
This article will answer some of the most common questions people have asked me about Hyper-V. It also provides useful information about the difference between Quick and Live migration as well as synthetic vs. emulated hardware.