In the last few posts I showed you a simple (and low cost) manual method for back and recovery of virtual machines running on Hyper-V. When I ran through the process in my lab, I purposely used two different types of virtual machines: one Windows VM with a VSS-aware OS and enabled integration services (Windows…
Comments Appear to Be Working!
I think suddenly comments are working on the blog (hooray!). I’ve had trouble enabling comments over the last few weeks, and have been adjusting settings. One made it on (thanks) regarding the drill project. If you had tried to leave a comment earlier and you do not see it, please try again.
Tiered Storage: My Unscientific Performance Testing
Sorry for not posting anything about my tiered storage setup in a while. Since I posted about “Storage Rig” and the walk through of how to setup tiered storage, I found that the USB 3.0 sticks I had been using were VERY slow on writes, and not well suited for playing around with tiered storage….
Hyper-V Linux P2V with PlateSpin
I mentioned in my last post how challenging manual Physical to Virtual migrations (P2V) of Linux systems can be. There are a number of great automated tools that make Linux P2V simpler that I’ll try to run through in the coming weeks. The tools I’m showing fill a need – to migrate a Linux host…
I Have a New Phone (and it’s just a phone!)
I mentioned in my last post that I’m now focused on Unified Communications at Microsoft. I’ll go deep on what Unified Communications (UC) is later – should you care. The BIG news is that as part of my new gig, I get to use lots of cool phones and devices that integrate with Office Communication…
I’m Back, and Thinking About Storage
I took a BUNCH off time off from blogging…but I’m back now and intend to share some cool new stuff around Windows Server 2012 R2 (preview at this point), starting with my experiments with Storage Spaces and Tiered storage. First let me say that I hadn’t worked much with Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012. …
Why Do You Buy Storage? Capacity, Performance, or Both…
At home I typically purchase storage based on my requirements for storage capacity. For a laptop or desktop, the question might be, “ will the 250GB drive be enough for all my kids stuff, or do they need something larger?”…or,” How large a USB disk do I need to backup all my pictures?” I spent…
Virtualizing on a Shoestring
I just put up a way too long post on the "Windows Server Expert’s” site on how to go cheap with virtualization (post is here). Lots of good stuff in the post about Hyper-V Server and mention of James’ O’Neill’s James’ ‘PowerShell Hyper-V Management library for Hyper-V. Does anybody else think those pictures on the…
Tiered Storage: My Goals for Testing
To bring you up to speed, I’ve loaded the preview of Windows Server 2012 R2 and built an extremely low cost storage subsystem out using a USB hub, some memory sticks, and USB attached SATA drives detailed in earlier posts. This is all in an effort to give you and me a look at the…
Tiered Storage: First Step – Creating My Storage Pool
In earlier posts I talked about why we purchase storage the way we do, I showed you my zany storage sub-system, and I talked about my goals for testing Storage Spaces with Tiered Storage. Now I would like to show you how I created my high-performance storage pool with the remaining, unallocated memory sticks and…