John Kelbley's real life enterprise interop and administration
Hyper-V Replica: Basic Monitoring Report
Earlier I covered what my Hyper-V Replica setup looks like in this post. It’s basically four...
Date: 12/17/2013
Hyper-V Replica: The Value for Branch Deployments
OK, I’m going to ramble just a little bit here. Before I dive deep into how I might monitor...
Date: 12/17/2013
Hyper-V Replica: My Setup
Hi everyone! Before I get too deep into playing around with Hyper-V Replica using Windows...
Date: 12/17/2013
Hyper-V Replica: Getting Started
I’m not going to walk through a basic setup of Hyper-V Replica – those are available all over the...
Date: 12/17/2013
Hyper-V Replica: Better Than DR, it’s Disaster Avoidance and Way More!
Hyper-V Replica was introduced in with Windows Server 2012, and is one of those transformational...
Date: 12/17/2013
Tiered Storage: My Unscientific Performance Testing
Sorry for not posting anything about my tiered storage setup in a while. Since I posted about...
Date: 12/13/2013
Tiered Storage: Second Step - Creating My Virtual Disk and Volume
In earlier posts I talked about why we purchase storage the way we do, I showed you my zany storage...
Date: 07/09/2013
Tiered Storage: First Step - Creating My Storage Pool
In earlier posts I talked about why we purchase storage the way we do, I showed you my zany storage...
Date: 07/09/2013
Tiered Storage: My Goals for Testing
To bring you up to speed, I’ve loaded the preview of Windows Server 2012 R2 and built an...
Date: 07/09/2013
Tiered Storage: My Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Rig
I wanted to give you some background on that high-performance, coffee-table-based storage sub-system...
Date: 07/09/2013
Why Do You Buy Storage? Capacity, Performance, or Both…
At home I typically purchase storage based on my requirements for storage capacity. For a...
Date: 07/08/2013
I’m Back, and Thinking About Storage
I took a BUNCH off time off from blogging…but I’m back now and intend to share some cool new stuff...
Date: 07/08/2013
Pumping Video Into Lync
The capabilities of Microsoft Lync (IM, presence, voice, video, web conferencing, other) are such...
Date: 03/04/2011
Disabling IM in the Lync Client
What? You want to disable IM in Lync? Why on Earth would you want to do that! It turns...
Date: 01/21/2011
I Have a New Phone (and it’s just a phone!)
I mentioned in my last post that I’m now focused on Unified Communications at Microsoft....
Date: 09/28/2010
New News … New Gig!
Sorry I haven’t posted in a LONG time, but I was super busy getting “all in”. I changed gears...
Date: 09/27/2010
TechEd 2010 Sessions
I've been heads down on all sorts of things, including preparing for two sessions at TechEd next...
Date: 06/02/2010
We’ve Been Kindled!
I just got a copy of the second edition of our book in the mail (starts shipping next week!) and...
Date: 05/26/2010
Linux P2V With DD and VHDTool – EASY and CHEAP!
So I’ve been busy the last two week getting ready for TechEd (WAHOO!) where I’m co-presenting two...
Date: 05/13/2010
Calling a PowerShell Function
I’m back from lots of traveling (why I’ve had time to post a few things). I got a great question...
Date: 04/27/2010
Hyper-V CPU Data Collection Script
I received an e-mail from someone looking for an electronic version of the VMCPU PowerShell...
Date: 04/26/2010
Hyper-V Linux P2V with PlateSpin
I mentioned in my last post how challenging manual Physical to Virtual migrations (P2V) of Linux...
Date: 04/26/2010
Hyper-V Linux P2V The Hard Way
I mentioned in a post last week that I would go over some options to perform a Linux Physical to...
Date: 04/26/2010
Automated Install of Hyper-V Windows Integration Services
Tony had a question about automating the installation of the Integration Services (aka Integration...
Date: 04/13/2010
Hyper-V P2V for Windows
Physical to Virtual migration (P2V) is a common task for achieving consolidation goals through...
Date: 04/12/2010
Linux on Hyper-V: TimeSync
So why do I think TimeSync is more important than SMP for Linux on Hyper-V? First, let me recap…...
Date: 04/04/2010
Linux on Hyper-V: SMP Support
I mentioned in my last post that Microsoft now has multi-processor support for Linux VMs on top of...
Date: 04/04/2010
New Xeon Shows Muscle of Windows Server 2008 R2!
I’ve been traveling for just about two weeks, and just finally got back from my last stop at the...
Date: 03/31/2010
Hyper-V VM Tribbles – VMs Everywhere!
I was thinking this week of how to demonstration / highlight the cool new processing capacity of new...
Date: 03/13/2010
Linux and Hyper-V the Easy Way: Brown and Serve!
Linux runs on Hyper-V – you’ve seen Hanna Montana Linux here already (I couldn’t resist using...
Date: 03/09/2010
Hyper-V for the VMware Administrator WEBCAST!
There’s been recent press about customers deploying multiple virtualization technologies in...
Date: 02/23/2010
Hyper-V Book Second Edition is On It’s Way!
Mike Sterling and I have been hiding this winter and updating everyone’s favorite Hyper-V book to...
Date: 02/17/2010
Hyper-V and Open Source: A Powerful (PowerShell) Combination
In my post last week, I highlighted a number of ways to harness the power of virtualization with...
Date: 02/05/2010
Virtualizing on a Shoestring
I just put up a way too long post on the "Windows Server Expert’s” site on how to go cheap with...
Date: 01/27/2010
Host-based Backup of CSV Volumes
Happy New Year! I’ve received several questions and comment about backing up VMs that reside on CSV...
Date: 01/05/2010
Having Fun With the Other Blog!
Playing around with the other blog is fun – I’m using more cool pictures like this one of a...
Date: 12/07/2009
Better Linux Performance on Hyper-V With Integration Services
I showed you in my last post how to get nearly any OS running on Hyper-V by adding the Legacy...
Date: 12/04/2009
How To Run Linux, UNIX, and Other OS’ on Hyper-V
I’ve gotten questions about how I managed to get Hannah Montana Linux (and OpenSolaris and SCO UNIX)...
Date: 12/04/2009
I’ve Got 2 Blogs Now!
I was tapped to post up on the Microsoft Windows Server site recently, and I’m now also posting on...
Date: 12/04/2009
Backup and Recovery of Non-Windows VMs on Hyper-V – IT JUST WORKS!
In the last few posts I showed you a simple (and low cost) manual method for back and recovery of...
Date: 11/20/2009
DiskShadow / Xcopy RESTORE of Hyper-V
In my last post I showed you how to create a consistent backup of a Hyper-V host using the no...
Date: 11/20/2009
DiskShadow / Xcopy BACKUP of Hyper-V
I mentioned in my last post the diskshadow command line tool that was introduced in Windows Server...
Date: 11/19/2009
The Wonder of Volume Shadow Copy and Hyper-V
Microsoft introduced the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) as part of Windows Server 2003. VSS lets...
Date: 11/18/2009
Best Part of Hyper-V Backup and Recovery Is Windows!
I speak with lots of customers about virtualization every week. I’m always interested in how they...
Date: 11/18/2009
Exporting Hyper-V VMs Over the Network
I received a comment via e-mail that it can take 2-3 times as long to move a VM from one Hyper-V...
Date: 11/02/2009
Comments Appear to Be Working!
I think suddenly comments are working on the blog (hooray!). I’ve had trouble enabling...
Date: 10/26/2009
The Best Sounding Drill I’ve Ever Owned!
When I’m not working on computer related projects, like a lot of people I get things done around the...
Date: 10/22/2009
Detecting The Virtualization Layer From Within A Guest / Child Instance
A while back I responded to an internal (Microsoft) e-mail where someone had requested information...
Date: 10/20/2009