I showed you how to do a simple storage migration using the Hyper-V Manager user interface. Today I want to show you how to do the same thing in PowerShell – and in my opinion it is even easier to do in PowerShell than with our user interface. As a quick reminder – I am not showing you the complex side of storage migration (yet) I am just show.. more »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2012/03/16/lots-of-windows-server-8-information.aspx'; This has been a busy week for Microsoft talking about Windows Server “8” – so I wanted to take a moment to call some interesting information to your attention.   The new Windows Server “8” Beta Hyper-V Component Architectur.. more »

Andrew Morgan has updated ThinKiosk to version 2 and it looks really good. ThinKiosk allows you to turn your old hardware into usable Citrix thin clients. This product is called ThinKiosk and is a lightweight .Net framework application designed to replace the shell of the PC it runs on. more..... more »

Dell has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, to significantly extend its desktop virtualization offerings. more..... more »

So far in this series, we have discussed the question, and identified three dependencies for SR-IOV in Hyper-V in Windows Server “8” beta: in the form of an IOMMU device to support both PF and VFs. This part of the series adds one more major component to that list, and one minor one. The minor one is that the system must support SLAT (Second Leve.. more »

This part of the series is all about determining why SR-IOV may not be operational. As you will discover, there are several reasons, some of them obvious if you’ve followed all the parts so far, some more subtle. By the end of this part, you will be an expert! Assuming you have a switch in SR-IOV mode, and have enabled SR-IOV on a virtual network ad.. more »

The next release of Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) will include a new major release of App-V (App-V 5.0) as well as a new very interesting product called User Experience Virtualization (UE-V). UE-V is a user state virtualization product that allows individuals to change devices without reconfiguring applications or settings in Windows .. more »

A little while ago, I showed you how to do a with the Windows “8” beta release. Today I want to show you how to use some of the more advanced options of storage migration. With a simple storage migration you select to move all of the files that make up a virtual machine to a single folder: Choose Move Options Wizard Page But, you can also sele.. more »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2012/03/09/system-center-2012-ctp-for-windows-server-8-beta-support-now-available.aspx'; This is really cool.  Last week we announced to availability of the Windows Server “8” beta, and today the System Center team have release a Community Technology Preview (CTO) of System Cente.. more »

// I have done many posts over the years about how to mount virtual hard disks under various releases of Windows.  Windows Server “8” makes this the easiest possible thing to do.  To mount a virtual hard disk – just find your .VHD or .VHDX file and double click on it: The virtual hard disk will be mounted, and you will automatically be directed.. more »

Windows Server 8 is coming and it is packed full of new features. Among the new features are A LOT of Remote Desktop Services improvements. more..... more »

One of the new features of vSphere 4.1 is called Storage IO Control (SIOC). SIOC is aimed at alleviating one of the most prevalent issues with hardware virtualization today - storage. Cormac Hogan recently wrote a blog post detailing some of the top myths about SIOC as well as addressing these. This post came from Cormac's field experience with .. more »

This morning the beta release of Windows Server “8” was announced by Bill Laing. As part of Windows Server “8” Beta we have made significant improvements in Remote Desktop Services for both session-based and virtual machine-based deployments. Please stay tuned to the Windows Server Blog for future announcements related to Windows Server “8” Beta.. more »

As part of the Windows Server “8” Beta, we have updated the Remote Desktop Services administration capabilities to simplify deploying virtual machine-based and/or session-based desktops or applications. This includes new features related to pooled deployment (single virtual desktop template across many users), personal desktops (one VHD per user.. more »

For Windows Server “8” Beta, the Remote Desktop Services documentation team has written topics that you can use to evaluate and deploy Remote Desktop Services within your environment. We will cover Windows Server “8” Beta enhancements in future blog posts. Following is a list of all the Remote Desktop Services documents that were published to coinc.. more »

, I discussed why Microsoft has been investing in SR-IOV for device I/O from virtual machines. The key points were to reduce latency, increase throughput, lower compute overhead, and for future scalability. Part two takes a look at SR-IOV from a hardware perspective. For those who didn’t take up my offer of the light bed time reading of the SR.. more »

Summarising the series so far, we’ve answered “Why SR-IOV?”, looked at hardware and firmware dependencies, and the user interface and PowerShell cmdlets to configure SR-IOV. Next on the agenda is how SR-IOV and Live Migration co-operate. In addition, there’s a video showing covering the configuration aspects of SR-IOV from the previous part which al.. more »

Only a few more topics in this series remain uncovered. This part of the series looks at resiliency with SR-IOV. By resiliency, I mean, of course, NIC teaming, otherwise known as Load Balancing/Failover (LBFO), the ability to aggregate network links or fail over should a link fail. I won’t get into the details of configuring NIC teaming which is in.. more »

I have been rewarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for the 2012! Althouhg I don’t write much lately and don’t deliver many technical presentations, I’m still quite involved in Microsoft community. This is my third MVP award, and I‘m very proud of it! I’m very happy to be recognized by Microsoft for.. more »

Microsoft holds 27% of the virtualization market. Virtualization saves Microsoft almost $50 million yearly. The Microsoft Virtualization community has 1,397 members. These and some other interesting facts on Microsoft virtualization can be found in this new infographics, provided exclusively for this site by Conosco.   .. more »