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How to re-direct Hyper-V snapshots with Windows Server 2012

May 28, 2012 6:00am PDT

The virtual machine snapshot is one of the most versatile administrative tasks out there today. In this post, Rickatron shows how to select specific storage for virtual machine snapshots.

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Difficulties Importing a VM from MS HyperV

May 15, 2012 12:56pm PDT

Difficulties Importing a VM from MS HyperV Hi all, I am having an issue with importing a VM on a MS Server 2008 R2 Core that is configured with an ISCSI SAN. I am trying to import a VM that came...

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Finding log events for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012

May 8, 2012 9:35am PDT

Finding log events for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 article root Event viewer. I go to Hyper-V under server roles and check out the events partying in that section of event viewer.

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Finding log events for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012

May 8, 2012 6:00am PDT

Hyper-V logs events for virtual machines, but the locations and processes may not be intuitive. Rick Vanover shows you where to look for logging info in Windows Server 2012.

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Omantel: Telecom Reduces Server Costs While Speeding Server Provisioning With Virtualization

April 26, 2012 12:00am PDT

Omantel experienced growth across its services offerings since 2008. As a result, the demand for IT projects was at an all-time high, but its data center was at its physical capacity, and it took...

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Five Secrets for Successfully Virtualizing a Data Center

April 4, 2012 12:00am PDT

Here are some secrets, tips, and tricks for virtualizing your datacenter. We want to introduce some best practices for virtualization, while not being too biased towards one virtualization vendor...

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T-Systems: Hosting Provider Aims to Fix 60 Percent of IT Incidents With Automation Solution

April 4, 2012 12:00am PDT

T-Systems was eager to adopt cloud computing so that it could aggressively drive down IT costs and improve service availability. To create a cloud computing environment as quickly as possible,...

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Eyes-Road: E-Commerce Platform Ensures 99.977 Percent Uptime Through Private Cloud

March 29, 2012 12:00am PDT

Eyes-Road, the leading e-commerce platform for the optical industry in France, offers an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) platform to its subscribers. They wanted to improve platform reliability...

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An overview of what's new in Windows Server 8

March 27, 2012 1:54pm PDT

In this overview, Scott Lowe describes the newest and most interesting features in Windows Server 8.

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Staffordshire County Council: Council Expands Shared Services and Makes Significant Savings Through Virtualisation

March 27, 2012 12:00am PDT

Staffordshire County Council is the eighth-largest council in England and a leader in shared IT services. They wanted to benefit from management and virtualisation to save money and ensure...

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Deploy and manage Hyper-V host clusters with System Center 2012 VMM

March 21, 2012 7:14am PDT

John Joyner details the steps to deploying host clusters using the Virtual Machine Manager in System Center 2012 and also shows how VMM is used to manage your Hyper-V clusters.

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Housing Service Delivers New Features Faster With Hyper-V-Based Cloud Solution

March 21, 2012 12:00am PDT

The customer is a national online apartment search service. To stay competitive, it needs to roll out new services quickly and deliver outstanding performance for approximately 6 million visitors...

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DenizBank: Bank Delivers IT as a Service Using Private Cloud Model, Avoids $12 Million Expense

March 21, 2012 12:00am PDT

DenizBank, a fast-growing bank in Turkey, constantly needed new technology to support its growth - but data center costs were spiraling upward. To reduce costs and speed the delivery of IT...

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Moving Hyper-V storage in Hyper-V Manager in Windows Server 8

March 19, 2012 6:00am PDT

The ability to migrate Hyper-V storage is a critical task, and Windows Server 8 makes it a bit easier. In this post, Rickatron will show how to migrate a VM's storage with Hyper-V Manager.

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How to create an external virtual switch in Hyper-V on the Windows Server 8 Beta

March 13, 2012 9:00am PDT

For anyone with a virtualization background, Hyper-V networking may not be as intuitive as other technologies. Rickatron shows how to create an external virtual switch in this post.

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HCI Solutions: Healthcare Firm Gains More Efficiency, Cuts Costs With Private Cloud Environment

March 8, 2012 12:00am PST

Because HCI Solutions creates information solutions for Swiss healthcare companies, its own information systems need to be reliable and responsive. To better manage its far-flung server holdings...

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Virtualization: Myths vs. Facts

March 5, 2012 12:00am PST

Examine fifteen common myths surrounding virtualization, including many that prevent IT administrators (or their bosses) from getting the maximum value from virtualization. This paper is designed...

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Configure a Hyper-V VM for automatic startup

February 20, 2012 2:25pm PST

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Configure a Hyper-V VM for automatic startup

February 20, 2012 9:00am PST

Ensuring all pre-requisite configuration of a virtual environment are online during a startup is critical to everything else working correctly. In this post, Rickatron shows a nifty option for...

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Walsh Group: Construction Firm Builds On-Demand IT Infrastructure With Private Cloud Computing

February 9, 2012 12:00am PST

Although, The Walsh Group specializes in building big things, it wanted to shrink its data center. The Chicago, Illinois - based builder of highways, skyscrapers, and subways sought to reduce...

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