Category Archive: Virtualization

Everything to do with virtualization, ESX, HyperV, Xen etc

Aug 23

HP StoreVirtual and VMware SRM Best Practices

Implementing HP StoreVirtual storage in a VMware environment, looking to integrate Site Recovery Manager into it?  Check out HP’s Best Practice Guide available here: Best Practice Guide

May 05

Hyper-V 8 Beta Architecture

Want a nice graphical overview of the new Hyper-V 8 Beta component architecture, that includes live migration, failover clustering, networking and a host of other features, well, voila! 🙂 If you want the really big picture it can be downloaded from microsoft here

Apr 05

vCenter Upgrade

I’ve been completing quite a few vSphere 4 to vSphere 5 upgrades lately and I thought it might be time to do a little blog post on the process. So here’s the first in the series, upgrading vCenter. It’s pretty straight forward, just next next next next, almost 🙂

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Mar 23

Windows 8 TLG’s

With the release of the beta Windows Server 2008 Microsoft has also published a couple of Test Lab Guides (TLGs). The guides are there to help you implement the features they cover in a test lab environment so you can see what benefits that they bring to your organisation.

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Mar 14

vCloud White Papers

Thought I’d share the following from vSphere, pretty useful from an architectural point of view: VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Case Study

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