Often the most challenging aspect of trying a new technology is getting started with it. There are costs involved; hardware, software, time. Often we avoid jumping in because of the inconvenience of making a move. Well, Microsoft has made it easy for anyone who wishes to get a feel for …
Posted on October 31, 2012 by Lisa Campbell .
After upgrading my server environment to Windows Server 2012 a few weeks ago, I was pleased to see that everything ran and there were no issues. However, the virtual disk format for my pre-existing VMs was still was the old VHD one. As I described in an earlier blog post.
Hyper-V 2012 …
Posted on July 20, 2012 by Maria Pressley .
I hope you’ve heard our announcement this week on our new partnership with ExaGrid. There’s certainly a buzz of excitement within Unitrends, and as I visited ExaGrid’s headquarters yesterday, I sensed the same.
So I’ve had my mind on storage quite a bit lately, and I’ve been in dialogs with users …
Posted on May 14, 2012 by Mark Jordan .
Recently there was a post in this blog titled “Windows 8 and Hyper-V 3.0 – Inching towards hypervisor supremacy”. One item caught my eye, a mention of the improvements in dynamic memory allocation and smart paging.
In the current edition of Hyper-V, you have the ability to set startup and maximum …
Posted on April 30, 2012 by Lisa Campbell .
I ran across this claim today – “ran across” means that Google decided that they should serve an advertisement to me while I was doing some web searches. I was interested (I’m the chief architect of Unitrends) so I clicked on over and found myself reading a bunch of material …
Posted on April 25, 2012 by Sameer Kamat .
Hyper-V has flown under the radar since its release in 2008. VMware was and still holds the lion’s share of the virtualization market. Hyper-V as a product was still in its infancy to prove itself to the enterprise. Hyper-V’s feature set fell short of setting the virtualization space ablaze due …
