Gavin McShera - Datacentre Solutions Specialist
Private Cloud, IaaS and the Dynamic Datacentre.
How to Manage a VMware Infrastructure or VMware vSphere in System Center Virtual Machine Manager
I am being asked this more frequently. How can you manage VMware environments in System Centre...
Author: Gavin McShera Date: 05/18/2011
Virtualising Exchange 2010 - Database Availability Groups (DAG's)
Check out the Best Practises for Virtualising Exchange Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R Hyper-v...
Author: Gavin McShera Date: 05/16/2011
Virtualisation shootout, the market has choices and moving to IaaS
Paul Venezia over at Infoworld wrote an article called "Virtualization shoot-out: Citrix, Microsoft,...
Author: Gavin McShera Date: 04/19/2011
Cannot mount VHD as it conflicts with other disks
Sometimes you can run into problems mounting VHD's. I see it when people start testing/developing...
Author: Gavin McShera Date: 04/14/2011
SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 RTM
The SP1 version of SCVMM 2008 R2 has shipped....
Author: Gavin McShera Date: 03/30/2011
VMM 2012 : How to deploy an application as a Service
As you know the System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2012 is in beta and available right now. We...
Author: Gavin McShera Date: 03/30/2011
Hyper-V: Real world consolidation and optimisation
The Microsoft Management summit 2011 was held in March of this year. Putting aside all of the...
Author: Gavin McShera Date: 03/30/2011
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) : Load Simulation and Capacity Planning Tools
Remote Desktop Load Simulation Tools The Remote Desktop Load Simulation toolset is used for 32-bit...
Author: Gavin McShera Date: 03/28/2011
Hyper-V : How many network cards do I need?
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Author: Gavin McShera Date: 03/27/2011
SCOM 2007 R2 : Where are my reports?
So you have followed the SCOM 2007 R2 installation guides to the letter. You've installed SQL...
Author: Gavin McShera Date: 03/24/2011
Jump Start: Microsoft Virtualization for VMWare Professionals (March 29-31)
Announcing Next Jump Start: Microsoft Virtualization for VMWare Professionals (March 29-31) Just one...
Author: Gavin McShera Date: 03/20/2011
SQL 2008 R2 Support for System Centre Products
I was asked during the week about the support statements for SQL 2008 R2 and System Centre products....
Author: Gavin McShera Date: 03/20/2011
Schrader chooses BT Ireland for £500,000 virtualisation project - Big Hyper-V win
It's always nice to see great virtualisation projects kick off in Ireland. Check it out :...
Author: Gavin McShera Date: 03/18/2011