System Center Universe…aka – SCU for short, is a Microsoft focused Community Event that is held annually and sponsored by Catapult Systems. Previous years events were rock solid community focused days stacked full of Microsoft MVP’s from around this world, this year won’t disappoint. This is a unique community event, it’s run LIVE in Dallas, TX for folks to attend, ju... »
Cameron Fuller and I (Clint Wyckoff) are teaming up with Jose Mendoza and Shawn Lieu for “Veeam, Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Are Better Together” on December 2nd (Wednesday) at 11:00 am (UTC -06:00). This should be a pretty awesome episode of VEEAM LIVE as Cam and I have been working on a whitepaper together focusing on this exact topic: Making Operations Manager Actionable! Highlights fro... »
Hey fellow vBrisketeers! I hope all is well, as we ramp up for our big event later this week at the Pittsburgh Beer Market (BTW, it’s not too late to REGISTER NOW) I’ve been spending time this past weekend playing with the latest Technology Preview (TP) #4 of Windows Server 2016. Well first off you need to visit the Windows Server TechNet Evaluation Site to register and download the la... »
For the last 10 days I’ve been busy traveling and attending Microsoft Ignite in Australia, which was an absolutely fantastic event! Many of you might have heard, but last Thursday Microsoft announced the much anticipated Technology Preview 4 (TP4) of Windows Server 2016! The upcoming release of Windows Server has many awesome features that the virtualization and cloud computing industry have... »
Straight from the Channel 9 Studio in Redmond, WA. Dave Kawula and I had the opportunity to record several video sessions on the heels of their MVP Summit. In this episode we discuss the value of Certifications,User Groups and Home Labs. Both Dave and I are very active in the IT Community and it was interesting to hear share our thoughts and experiences. Enjoy! »
Earlier this past year in Chicago, Microsoft launched and held their inaugural event where many announcements were made regarding the future of Windows Server and Hyper-V Technologies. There’s many posts out there that list out the features in great depth, so I am not going to re-create the wheel – My favorite is from Thomas Maurer, Hyper-V MVP. One of the great resources available is ... »
As vBrisket’ers, I think we can confidently say that virtualization is the foundation of our community and the glue that holds us together. More specifically, I think we can say that x86/Hypervisor based virtualization is the foundation/glue. That being said, I find myself looking at some of the major advancements in “cloud” technologies and I start to question the typic... »
This week during VeeamON 2015 I had the opportunity to participate in a vBrownbag. During this vBrownbag I presented on What is Windows Nano Server. Checkout the recording below! For more information on Nano Server, checkout these resources: Microsoft Virtual Academy Getting Started with Nano Server »
In case you haven’t noticed, VMware is not the only game in town anymore in the hypervisor space. Take it from me, I was all VMware all the time, but I think it is time for me to take a step back and look at the competition. Microsoft and Hyper-V are making a push and it is now a viable solution with more enterprises running it in a production environment. This led me to watch a Hyper-V cou... »
Earlier this Spring 2015, it was announced that the Hyper-V Role in Windows Server 2016 will support Nested Hyper-V instances. Woot woot, sounds of rejoice are echoing through the virtualized data center! One of the very few drawbacks of Microsoft Hyper-V was that you could not run a Hyper-V host as a Guest on a physical Hyper-V host. This is known as nested virtualization, and is a “feature... »