Virtualization

I’ve decided that the time has come for me to produce a single page which brings (almost) all the management packs that I use together into one place.  I’ve done my best to link up all the major management packs [...]

Keeping the members of a failover cluster up-to-date with hotfixes and patches has traditionally been an arduous and daunting task, but Windows Server 2012 introduces a new feature called Cluster-Aware Updating or “CAU” (pronounced “cow”), that will take care of [...]

I had installed Windows 8 with a product key that wasn’t matching my agreement and I needed to change it before activation, as I was sitting at an annoying “Activate Windows” message.  I naturally went to the properties of the [...]

Microsoft has put a lot of work into Linux support over the last few years, including in the Hyper-V product.  Linux support is key to Hyper-V becoming the de-facto hypervisor at companies that have a mixed Windows and Linux environment, [...]

When I build Windows 2012 Servers, I am often using the (fantastic) in-box NIC Teaming feature. While it let’s me join multiple network adapters together and treat them like one logical adapter, I often will create a “team” that has [...]

For our development environment we use a lot of virtual machines depending upon the platform or project we are working on.  I have been storing the majority of these virtual hard disks (VHD) files on my external USB drive due [...]