Today Microsoft released the long awaited new version of the Virtual Machine Converter (the 1.0 version could be integrated with MAT but had limits in both VMware and Hyper-V latest releases). Microsoft has also released a new version of the MAT (migration automation toolkit) that supports the MVMC 2.0 to automate the migration! New Features […]
Well as I am a techy nerd I have been checking out and following the Build keynote on Channel 9 and found that they now release the Microsoft Azure Portal, it is in Preview but it looks good! Just hope that this also soon comes to the Windows Azure Pack to the hosters I have […]
Noticed today that during the Build conference that Microsoft released an update to Windows 8.1 and also for Windows Server 2012 R2. The improvements have been blogged at this MS link I downloaded from my MSDN and started installing In the Update zip there is a text file describing which KB that should be applied […]
For the Veeam Seminar I did some digging in how to check and also apply updated integrational components on virtual disks in the System Center VMM library and found Ben´s script which I altered to fit my goal. This is quite convenient based on that you can schedule it and always have updated IC´s on […]
Last week I had two webinars together with Veeam in the subject of “Automating daunting virtualization tasks”. Now these have been uploaded and shared on Veeams web. One is in swedish and one in english. during the webinar I show some different tasks that can be managed and handled with the Service Management Automation (SMA) […]
I have been configuring a demonstration environment on Azure and that connected to my local datacenter with S2S VPN. I created several VM´s in Azure and during that process I connected them to my own network. One thing I noticed once doing this was that these VM´s was not activated. The reason for this appeared […]
In 2012 I did a blogpost about a PowerShell function to find VM´s on Hyper-V Cluster nodes that was not configured as cluster resources and thus not being Highly Available in case of a hardware failure or maintenance work on the Hyper-V hosts… I have today made an update to the function so that it […]
On wednesday the 19th of March I will together with Veeam have a web seminar with the topic: Automate daunting virtualization tasks with SMA Now that you have set up your virtualization environment, you’ll want to automate it. In this webinar, you will learn how to do this with Service Management Automation(SMA) and how to integrate […]
I have had the pleasure to find a new book about PowerCLI that have been released. Learning PowerCLI by Robert van den Nieuwendijk The book has 10 chapters and is truly a bible for a VMware Admin that wants to learn how to utilize PowerCLI in their environment. The book covers the latest version of […]
I was at a meeting last friday and they where in the process of deploying a Scale Out File Server environment on Windows Server 2012 R2 and that with a Dell jbod box. One important thing to consider when designing this is that if you want to use all the features in the new 2012 […]
