Mark Ghazai's Blog
Couple of Hyper-V Books for Virtualization Administrators
For Microsoft Hyper-V admins out there, you might wanna check out the following couple of MSPress...
Date: 07/08/2013
System Center 2012 Operations Manager Web Application Monitoring Example
While publishing “Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out”, we realized we had illustrated a...
Date: 06/17/2013
Virtual Machine RAM and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Dynamic Memory
With the introduction of Microsoft Hyper-V Dynamic Memory (DM), there’s been many discussions around...
Date: 05/28/2013
Microsoft Management Summit 2013 (#MMS2013) - 4.8-4.12 Mandalay Bay - Las Vegas
There are lots of excitements at MMS 2013 (#MMS2013) in Las Vegas. Many opportunities to...
Date: 04/08/2013
All About Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 (aka The Modern Cloud...
Date: 02/15/2013
June 2012 Datacenter Newsletter
Download the Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC) Try the release candidate of Windows...
Date: 06/22/2012
Differencing Disk or Snapshot Parent/Child Chain
Hyper-V differencing virtual hard disk (VHD) is an interesting and sometimes very useful...
Date: 08/02/2011
What’s the story of Pagefile size on Hyper-V Servers?
This question comes up frequently. So, how do we size the pagefile on Hyper-V host servers...
Date: 05/26/2011
Case of Hyper-V Role install issue
In this post, we're going to look at an issue that was happened when I was teaching a Hyper-V R2...
Date: 03/09/2011
Error ID:404 while Adding Hyper-V host to SCVMM 2008 R2
Yesterday while working on installing a new SCVMM 2008 R2 server setup, we encountered an...
Date: 11/06/2010
Problem with Compacting VHDs in Hyper-V Management Console
If you are using Hyper-V as your virtualization solution, you might be familiar with expand...
Date: 10/23/2010
Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer PowerShell Automation
Hi, Mark here today. As you might know, with the release of Server 2008 R2, Server Manger offered...
Date: 06/08/2010
Windows Server 2008 R2 Highly Available (Clustered) Remote Desktop Connection Broker
Hi Mark here again. I was working on W2K8 R2 RD Connection Broker today (this is an exotic topic as...
Date: 05/12/2010
Hyper-V Guest Clustering Step-by-Step Guide
You might have wondered about how to setup Failover Cluster inside Hyper-V Virtual Machines. As you...
Date: 12/12/2009
What is CPU Type in SCVMM 2008 R2 VM Processor Hardware Profile?
If you ever used SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager) 2008 R2, you might have...
Date: 12/02/2009
What is this CPU Usage column in Hyper-V Management Console?
Hi! If you’ve used Hyper-V, you might have seen a CPU Usage column inside Hyper-V Management console...
Date: 09/12/2009
Hyper- V Dynamic Expanding or Fixed Size VHD?
Hi, today I’d like to write about Hyper-V and Virtual Disks. As you know Windows Server 2008...
Date: 09/04/2009
Error Code 0x8009030e in SCVMM 2008 and Hyper-V Management Consoles when trying to connect to a Virtual Machine
Hello! This morning, I logged into my Hyper-V/SCVMM 2008 server to deploy a new Windows Server 2008...
Date: 04/10/2009
Extend System/Boot Volume on Windows Server 2008/ Windows Vista/Win7 Beta
I’m sure the subject of extending volumes and drives due to lack of space or other reasons is...
Date: 02/24/2009
How to determine the appropriate page file size on my server
I’ve seen the question of how big the page file has to be on a serer several times. As you may know...
Date: 09/29/2008
Mark Ghazai's Bio
I’m a Microsoft Data Center Specialist with Microsoft US State and Local Government (SLG)...
Date: 09/28/2008