Category Archive: Virtualization

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

Dec 10

VMware Networking Design

I’m a real fan of Scott Lowe and i found his presentation of Networking design very useful: An Eye for (Network) Design

Dec 08

Hyper-V in Workstation 8

If you want to try Hyper-V, but don’t have any spare hardware, you can install it under VMware Workstation 8, but you must make sure Virtualized HV enable. Virtualized HV is available for virtual hardware version 8 VMs on hosts that support Intel VT-x and EPT or AMD-V and RVI. To enable virtualized HV, select …

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Nov 17

VMware Certified Professional 5 – the ins and outs

I’ve just sat and passed my VCP 5 exam and thought I’d pass on some of the things I did to prepare for this. Home Lab – Luckily I have a couple of HP DL based servers to be able to deploy a vSphere 5 (which can be downloaded with 60 day evaluation licenses) environment …

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Oct 05

Hyper-V Windows Server 8 – New Features

Just found this blog post from Michael Otey of WindowsITPro and thought it rather interesting, so I’ve re-blogged it for your enjoyment! 🙂 At the recent Windows Server Workshop at the Microsoft campus in Redmond Washington Jeff Woolsey, Principle Program Manager Lead for Windows Virtualization in the Windows Server and Cloud division presented the new …

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Sep 13

Site Recovery Manager 5

So, I wanted to talk a little about the new version of Site Recovery Manager that is coming soon.  I’ve got nothing against SRM, but prior versions were a little poor in the administration and no automated fail back, thankfully these have been addressed in the new version. So, onto some highlights: Integration with multiple …

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