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Hyper-V over SMB: Scale-Out File Server and Storage Spaces 26 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
On some community pages my blog post started some discussions why you should use SMB 3.0 and why you should use Windows Server as a storage solution. Let me be clear here, you don’t need Windows Serve...
How to Install a Highly Available SCVMM Management Server 21 Aug 2013 | 08:15 pm
Since System Center Virtual Machine Manager is starting to get more and more important and starts to be a critical application for your environment especially if your are using Hyper-V Network Virtual...
Hyper-V over SMB: SMB Direct (RDMA) 20 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
Another important part of SMB 3.0 and Hyper-V over SMB is the performance. In the past you could use iSCSI, Fiber Channel or FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet). Now SMB 3.0 has a lot of performance im...
Veeam Backup & Replication v7 is Here! 20 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
Veeam just released their new flagship product Veeam Backup & Replication v7. The first release of the Veeam Backup & Replication was 5 years ago and Veeam did a lot of updates and improvements to the...
Automate your Cisco UCS with System Center Orchestrator 19 Aug 2013 | 10:36 pm
Some days ago I posted an article how you can manage your Cisco UCS Blade Center directly from System Center Virtual machine Manager. Cisco also offers an Integration Pack for System Center Orchestrat...
Mark your calendars for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 14 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
Microsoft just announced that Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 will be available on October 18th. Windows Server 2012 R2 Available October 18th Mark your calendars for W...
Hyper-V over SMB: SMB Multichannel 13 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
As already mentioned in my first post, SMB 3.0 comes with a lot of different supporting features which are increasing the functionality in terms of performance, security, availability and backup. Here...
Manage Cisco UCS via UCS Manager Add-in in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 12 Aug 2013 | 09:15 pm
Maybe you already know about the Cisco UCS Blade Center about I already blogged a lot especially about Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center integration. Today I had the change to integrate the Cisco UC...
System Center Virtual Machine Manager Mania at E2EVC 9 Aug 2013 | 03:05 pm
As you may know, back in Mai this year I was in Copenhagen speaking at the Experts 2 Experts Virtualization Conference, short E2EVC. Together with Michael Rüefli I talked in the SCVMM Mania session ab...
Interview about System Center Universe Europe 2013 7 Aug 2013 | 04:17 pm
Today the crew from System Center Universe Europe released an interview with me where I talked about my job at itnetx, the Public and Private Cloud and of course about my sessions at System Center Uni...
