Talking about SCVMM with Carsten Rachfahl
Recently I have been spending more time outside of Jersey and been fortunate to have met and discussed virtualization with some of Europe’s virtualization and Private Cloud IT Pro’s. Most of them can be found in the online and offline Microsoft and Citrix based communities, tweeting, blogging, writing and presenting their practical insights and product [...]
Jersey Windows User Group Tech Talk II
When: 19 December 2011 from 17:30 onwards. Where: St Pauls Centre, Dumaresq Street, St Helier Jersey The Jersey Windows User Group invites you to attend an evening of interactive technical talks with local and visiting technologists. Please register on eventbrite here. Ensure you cancel if your not coming as we are ordering food and refreshments. [...]
Microsoft’s New Cloud Assessment Tool
Well there’s something new and interesting. Microsoft have released a cloud based tool to help partners asses their customer cloud computing needs. I have already run a sample client through the tool and it’s a real time saver. Not only will partners benefit in time saved, clients will soon benefit as this may bring more [...]
SCVMM2012: Adding a host from an untrusted domain or workgroup
This quick guide is for those that want to deploy the agents to a host that doesn’t share the Virtual Machine Managers domain. There are two steps. Firstly we must install the agent on the host, then we must add the host to VMM and import the security key generated during the agent setup. Here [...]
Installing and Evaluating VMM2012 RC
I’m just running through another SCVMM 2012 install and this time thought to capture the steps. System requirements and prerequisite information for the release candidate is available in the official TechNet deployment documentation here. Step by Step *Note I’m using the Release Candidate here and at this time am not creating a Self Service Portal [...]
Managing Private & Hybrid Clouds
Presentation: Managing Private & Hybrid Clouds Immediately after the Jersey BCS AGM we will have a presentation and demonstrations of Microsoft’s latest innovation in Private & Public Cloud management technologies. Monday, September 26, 2011 from 12:00 AM to 2:00 PM Register here – http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2176289340 In this fast paced session we will deliver an overview of [...]
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
Over in Las Vegas at Microsoft Management Summit this year I attended almost every session to learn about this exceptional third iteration product. Using remote protocol I traversed back to my shuttle and installed it minutes after the beta was released, since then I have been quietly poking around enjoying the direction it’s [...]
System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Beta
I saw my first DPM 2012 demo at the Microsoft Management summit earlier this year, I was rather impressed and have eagerly awaited this download. There’s a lot of new features for me to #like in DPM2012 and as I get through test driving it I’ll be sure to share anything interesting. [...]
Results of the Hyper-V Survey
I finally found time to review the results of a recent Hyper-V survey conducted by Aidan Finn, Hans Vredvoort and Damian Flynn. A great piece of work, the collection and analysis of this information had my eyebrows raised more than once and on occasion I found myself chuckling at the things Aidan doesn’t like. If [...]