Virtualization

Wow. I’m very excited about what Microsoft is doing with Hyper-V in Windows 8.  Microsoft is delivering some awesome capabilities to the new Hyper-V virtualization stack. You can tell that Microsoft has listened to the market, customers, and partners and [...]

Orchestrator is already a powerful tool if all you could do is execute PowerShell commands.  That’s not all you can do however.  Microsoft has constructed integration packs for many different server technologies that make automation simpler and easier.  This post [...]

Orchestrator is the killer app of System Center.  It allows an IT department to automate the tasks that they would alternatively be performing manually.  This can amount to literally hundreds of hours of time savings.   Literally take a task that [...]

 Do you want to import a virtual machine to a Hyper-V host in Windows 8?  You’re in luck!  You can import virtual machines in an exported, or non-exported state.  This means that whether you had the chance to export the [...]

Hyper-V Replica is an awesome technology in Windows 8 that allows for virtual machines to be replicated from one Hyper-V host environment to another.  This includes replication to and from clusters and/or standalone hosts.  The technology also provides a mechanism [...]

The Hyper-V platform in Windows 8 now has PowerShell!  This is awesome, as it has enabled both automation opportunities, as well as command line ease of use.  I’m certain that the use of PowerShell throughout the Windows 8 platform will make the core installation [...]