Archive for the ‘Virtual Machine Manager’ Category

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 [...]

Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:42 pm by Ronnie · Permalink · One Comment
In: Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization

Experts 2 Experts Virtualization Conference

These days I attend so many events you’d think I get bored of them. Well actually no! The opposite, I just try and choose the best ones! Flying out of Jersey I managed to sneak in a quick yet thoroughly enjoyable family visit, then ran down to the docklands for a multi-vendor programme updating me [...]

Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:53 pm by Ronnie · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Citrix, Events, Social, Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization

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 [...]

Posted on October 4, 2011 at 12:21 pm by Ronnie · Permalink · One Comment
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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 [...]

Posted on October 4, 2011 at 11:26 am by Ronnie · Permalink · One Comment
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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 [...]

Posted on September 22, 2011 at 8:17 pm by Ronnie · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

Posted on September 21, 2011 at 12:08 am by Ronnie · Permalink · One Comment
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Jersey Windows User Group: Tech Talk

The Jersey Windows User Group is proud to present an evening of Tech Talk. Both sessions are delivered by the JWUG hosts and are as follows: Wireshark Primer (Michael French) Everything you need to know about RemoteFX (Ronnie Isherwood) There are giveaways such as groovy T-shirts,handy component architecture posters, and a chance to win Windows [...]

Posted on July 12, 2011 at 11:28 pm by Ronnie · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 SP1

Microsoft has released SP1 for Virtual Machine Manager’s V2 Portal. This free solution is the foundation for turning what might referred to as dynamic datacentre into a private cloud. To download and read more on the release head follow the link.

Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:39 am by Ronnie · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Take SCVMM2012 out for a guided test drive.

“We are on a long roadmap with SCVMM”, that is what Microsoft’s virtualization team said back on September 6th 2007. Virtual Machine Manager was at RTM back then and since that announcement this System Center application has grown to be very welcome datacentre tool indeed. In this latest upcoming edition of Virtual Machine Manager we [...]

My April MS Virtualisation reading highlights

My blog is a little empty right now as I be mostly reading a resource kit on my new kindle, the later happens to be giving my broken eyes a much needed rest from screen glare.  When I have tried to write though my 3 & 5 old managed to take me through the paces, [...]

Posted on April 30, 2011 at 7:21 pm by Ronnie · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization