David Mackies Blue Brain

The things that make my friends just shake their heads.

News

Locations of visitors to this page

View David Mackie's profile on LinkedIn

Creative Commons License
This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence

[This is a SBS Community blog you are reading. Are you subscribed to the Official SBS blog?]

I'm a Blog This member inspiring and connecting with Australian Bloggers.

Photobucket

Disclaimer: These postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. This weblog does not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans or strategies of Synergistic Network Solutions. Use of included Script Samples or Build Procedures subject to you testing in a TEST Environment. If you break your network you were warned.

Click here to join ANZ-SMB-ITS
Click to join ANZ-SMB-ITS

Receive Email Updates

Important Notices and Content

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Hyper-V (RSS)
Planning my Lab
I have ordered all the kit and am really just awaiting delivery so I have about a week before I start building. At this point I’m thinking that I will build the two servers to be bootable from USB which will let me play with the three main vendors on an as required basis, but really I think it will mostly be a Hyper-V Lab. Even with the decision to most use Hyper-V Server R2 do I install to the Local file system or would it be better to boot this from USB too. I have found a set of instructions for...
Must be XMAS
So I guess it really is Christmas time… HP ML330G6 E5504(1/2) 2GB(1/18) 250GB(1/4) SATA NHP-3.5 B110i DVD TWR 1YR 504055-011 *** BDL W/ NINTENDO WII SPORTS CONSOLE *** $1,538.90 EA Sad part is I’ve been looking at an ML 330 for an internal virtualization lab machine, actually 2 so I can do some cluster configs using Hyper-V Server R2. The Business Investment bonus is something that made me think two might be an option. BUT what would I do with two WII Sports consoles?
So how will I solve the problem of Backup?
Yesterday I linked to a Backup article and book to give some background into Virtual Machine Backup and said I’d explore further today. I’m not really ready to detail the whole design, and I have a Offering Brochure to prepare so here is the basic idea of the possible parts. I’m almost certain to change some of it and it will only be offered by region where we have an office or agent. So have a think about some requirements you might have for backup and let me know if you would be interested in collaborating...
Backing up virtual servers
A small part of my job is not to be so much well read but certainly widely read. Some times in RSS feeds I get there are some interesting titles come up and the one from techtarget.com was interesting as the guys in SMBiT Professionals Sydney are holding a Virtualization day today, and I’m fairly sure they might cover backup. Anyway the article by Eric Beehler made me think about how we do backup virtualised workloads for our SMB clients so I’ll explore that more deeply. Avoid the big mistakes when...
Free Book on Virtualization Solutions
I’ve been doing quite a bit of Microsoft Virtualization recently so downloading this book was a “Where do I click?” Moment for me. It is 452 Pages long so quite comprehensive I’d think, if I find it one of those have to keep it with me kind of resources I’ll be getting the print version, just like the NAP and Power Shell scripting guides I have in a box in the truck. The book covers: Microsoft's Virtualization Solution Hyper-V VMM 2008 App-V Terminal Services MED-V and VDI User State Virtualization...