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Couple of Hyper-V Books for Virtualization Administrators

For Microsoft Hyper-V admins out there, you might wanna check out the following couple of MSPress...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 07/08/2013

System Center 2012 Operations Manager Web Application Monitoring Example

While publishing “Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out”, we realized we had illustrated a...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 06/17/2013

Virtual Machine RAM and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Dynamic Memory

With the introduction of Microsoft Hyper-V Dynamic Memory (DM), there’s been many discussions around...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 05/28/2013

Microsoft Management Summit 2013 (#MMS2013) - 4.8-4.12 Mandalay Bay - Las Vegas

  There are lots of excitements at MMS 2013 (#MMS2013) in Las Vegas. Many opportunities to...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 04/08/2013

All About Windows Server 2012

           Windows Server 2012 (aka The Modern Cloud...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 02/15/2013

June 2012 Datacenter Newsletter

  Download the Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC) Try the release candidate of Windows...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 06/22/2012

Differencing Disk or Snapshot Parent/Child Chain

  Hyper-V differencing virtual hard disk (VHD) is an interesting and sometimes very useful...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 08/02/2011

What’s the story of Pagefile size on Hyper-V Servers?

  This question comes up frequently. So, how do we size the pagefile on Hyper-V host servers...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 05/26/2011

Case of Hyper-V Role install issue

In this post, we're going to look at an issue that was happened when I was teaching a Hyper-V R2...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 03/09/2011

Error ID:404 while Adding Hyper-V host to SCVMM 2008 R2

  Yesterday while working on installing a new SCVMM 2008 R2 server setup, we encountered an...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 11/06/2010

Problem with Compacting VHDs in Hyper-V Management Console

  If you are using Hyper-V as your virtualization solution, you might be familiar with expand...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 10/23/2010

Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer PowerShell Automation

Hi, Mark here today. As you might know, with the release of Server 2008 R2, Server Manger offered...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 06/08/2010

Windows Server 2008 R2 Highly Available (Clustered) Remote Desktop Connection Broker

Hi Mark here again. I was working on W2K8 R2 RD Connection Broker today (this is an exotic topic as...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 05/12/2010

Hyper-V Guest Clustering Step-by-Step Guide

You might have wondered about how to setup Failover Cluster inside Hyper-V Virtual Machines. As you...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 12/12/2009

What is CPU Type in SCVMM 2008 R2 VM Processor Hardware Profile?

  If you ever used SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager) 2008 R2, you might have...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 12/02/2009

What is this CPU Usage column in Hyper-V Management Console?

Hi! If you’ve used Hyper-V, you might have seen a CPU Usage column inside Hyper-V Management console...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 09/12/2009

Hyper- V Dynamic Expanding or Fixed Size VHD?

  Hi, today I’d like to write about Hyper-V and Virtual Disks. As you know Windows Server 2008...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 09/04/2009

Error Code 0x8009030e in SCVMM 2008 and Hyper-V Management Consoles when trying to connect to a Virtual Machine

Hello! This morning, I logged into my Hyper-V/SCVMM 2008 server to deploy a new Windows Server 2008...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 04/10/2009

Extend System/Boot Volume on Windows Server 2008/ Windows Vista/Win7 Beta

  I’m sure the subject of extending volumes and drives due to lack of space or other reasons is...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 02/24/2009

How to determine the appropriate page file size on my server

I’ve seen the question of how big the page file has to be on a serer several times. As you may know...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 09/29/2008

Mark Ghazai's Bio

I’m a Microsoft Data Center Specialist with Microsoft US State and Local Government (SLG)...

Author: Mark Ghazai Date: 09/28/2008