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Virtualization tools and stuff. By Matthijs ten Seldam

MAP Toolkit 9.0 Beta now available!

MAP Toolkit 9.0 Beta now available! The beta  of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 11/11/2013

WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2 MS PRESS EBOOK

  The Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release book from Microsoft Press is now...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 08/27/2013

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 8.5 Now Available

Usage tracking for Windows Server 2012 and the 2013 versions of Microsoft’s productivity servers! We...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 07/08/2013

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 8.0 Now Available

Accelerate your journey to the cloud with MAP 8.0! The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 12/14/2012

Windows Server - Sockets, Logical Processors, Symmetric Multi Threading

With the release of each version of Windows Server, the maxima for supported number of sockets and...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 10/13/2012

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and SR-IOV

With Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V we’ve taken performance to the next level. For example: Up to 64...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 10/13/2012

Set-KCD; configuring Kerberos Constrained Delegation (KCD)

  In June I posted an article called Configuring Kerberos Constrained Delegation for Hyper-V...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 10/05/2012

Why upgrade from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012

  1. Massive scale Up to 64 virtual processors Up to 1 TB of memory per VM Up to 64 TB per virtual...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 09/20/2012

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster and Companion References

The very popular Hyper-V component architecture posters have been updated for Windows Server 2012....

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 09/19/2012

Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.1

With the release of Windows Server 2012 on September 4th and recent announcements by VMware at...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 09/06/2012

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator

  With the launch of Windows Server 2012 on September 4th we have also released the Microsoft...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 09/06/2012

Configuring Kerberos Constrained Delegation for Hyper-V Management

Managing Hyper-V can be done in several ways; using Hyper-V Manager, using System Center Virtual...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 06/10/2012

WakeUp-Machines – A PowerShell script for Wake On LAN

  These days, I give a lot of presentations and demos on Windows Server 2012. Of course, many...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 06/02/2012

Live New Parent in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

  In several presentations and various documents we mention the feature “Live New Parent”. In...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 05/09/2012

Managing Hyper-V Replica from PowerShell

Hyper-V Replica One of the new virtualization features of Windows Server “8” is Hyper-V...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 04/02/2012

Installing, configuring and managing Hyper-V Server “8” Beta

With the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server “8” Beta, we have also...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 03/02/2012

Using native PowerShell cmdlets with Hyper-V in Windows Server “8”

A couple of weeks ago I was asked to present new features of Windows Server “8” to a...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 02/27/2012

System Center 2012 Licensing

  System Center licensing will change considerably with the release of System center 2012. The...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 01/17/2012

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.5 Now Available

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5 is now available for download. Download the MAP...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 12/06/2011

Installing VMRCplus 1.8.0 on Windows XP SP3 or Windows 7 SP1

I never expected to post another item on VMRCplus since we have Hyper-V for years now. But, I...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 05/13/2011

HYPER-V VM DENSITY, VP:LP RATIO, CORES & THREADS: PDF

This blog post is now available as a PDF. You can download it here.

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 04/28/2011

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory overview

Here is a nice article on Hyper-V Dynamic Memory explaining the parameters and internal...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 04/13/2011

VMC2HV – update for 2008 R2 SP1 available

Exactly one month after my blog post on the work on the updated version of VMC2HV for Windows Server...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 03/22/2011

VMC2HV Import tool–update for 2008 R2 SP1

It sure has been a while since I coded the VMC2HV import tool. I originally developed it for...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 02/22/2011

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 RTM

This is great news especially since it contains virtualization enhancements like Dynamic Memory and...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 02/09/2011

WiX 3.5 Released

Although this has nothing to do with virtualization, it has everything to do with great tools. I...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 01/31/2011

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.5 Now Available

Migration planning made easier with MAP Toolkit 5.5 Simplify planning for migration to the latest...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 01/17/2011

Microsoft War on Cost study: Microsoft Hyper-V vs. VMware ESX & vSphere Operations & Management Cost Analysis

The War on Cost team conducted research in late 2009 and early 2010 to determine the on-going...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 09/20/2010

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Now Available

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is an agentless tool designed to simplify...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 07/12/2010

Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster

Similar to the Windows Server 2008 R2 feature component poster, the Hyper-V poster is a great visual...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 06/15/2010

How many VM’s in a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 cluster? - Update

Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering, which is a standard component of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2,...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 06/07/2010

Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, 2nd Edition

This is a free 450-page downloadable e-book offering from MS Press. The new version includes updates...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 03/03/2010

Project Virtual Reality Check publishes second phase of results

In case you missed it last year, PQR and Login Consultants published test results of running...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 02/17/2010

Increase VMBus buffer sizes to increase network throughput to guest VMs

Under load, the default buffer size used the by the virtual switch may provide inadequate buffer and...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 02/09/2010

Microsoft Hyper-V VM State to Memory Dump Converter

In development environments or when debugging a customer issue, it is usually a pain to get a crash...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 02/05/2010

Deploying Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on USB Flash Drive

I have shown this at presentations several times now; Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 operating from UFD....

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 11/20/2009

MAP Toolkit 5.0 CTP available now

The Solution Accelerators Team is offering customers and partners added inventory and assessment...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 11/11/2009

Capture a disk and create a VHD from it: Disk2VHD

Talking about cool utilities, Mark and Bruce have created a disk capturing tool which will create a...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 10/08/2009

Microsoft and Red Hat Complete Cooperative Technical Support

This is nothing more than a link to a great post from Mike Neil on our progress with Redhat. There...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 10/07/2009

Using Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 for VDI

When configuring a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure using Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 09/15/2009

‘Missing’ network adapters in Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

When you choose option 8 in sconfig you may notice that sconfig lists fewer network adapters than...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 09/14/2009

How many VM’s in a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 cluster?

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 fully supports clustering. With the addition of enterprise features it has...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 09/08/2009

Hyper-V Resource Kit

This is not an announcement on the availability of the Hyper-V Resource Kit; it has been available...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 09/08/2009

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is RTM

Na Windows Server 2008 R2 en Windows 7 volgt nu ook de gratis server virtualisatie host in de R2...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 07/31/2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM

Yesterday, July 22nd, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 were declared Released To Manufacturing...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 07/23/2009

RC2 release of Linux IC’s

The RC2 release of the Linux IC’s for Hyper-V have been released.  With this release, support...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 07/23/2009

Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community

  REDMOND, Wash., July 20, 2009 — Today, in a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 07/23/2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta

Windows Server 2008 R2 is now publically available. Among the new features and many improvements is...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 01/12/2009

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is RTM

Hyper-V Server 2008 is RTM. You can download it as of October 1st. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008...

Author: Matthijs ten Seldam Date: 10/01/2008

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