We’re one week into #vDM30in30 and just as @discoposse (Eric Wright) explained in his blog post prior to last year’s virtual Design Master: 30 articles in 30 days campaign, there has been an extremely varied selection of blog topics. For example, here’s what we at vBrisket published this week: A recommitment to the community Docker, Containers and the “Application First” Revoluti... »
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 ... »
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... »
I arrived at work today and noticed 2 VM’s had a warning indicating “Virtual Machine Disk Consolidation is needed”. If you following the usual steps and right click the VM in the vSphere Client and click “Snapshot” and then “Consolidate”, the VM will try to consolidate and the I received an error “Unable to access file since it is locked”. I ... »
We can all agree, companies of all shapes and sizes need to ensure their data is available at ALL TIMES. Being ‘available’ is a critical part of success! One of the most challenging pieces of an organizations overall availability strategy is attempting to get their data off-premises. In the legacy days Tape Backup was the most efficient way of achieving this. On a nightly basis the ... »
vBrisket is proud to announce that we are hosting our Inaugural VMworld Party this year, 2015! Last week we officially announced the event and sold out the initial 75 slots in just a few hours! This morning we’ve released an additional 50 tickets! Be sure to signup NOW! Southpaw BBQ and Southern Cooking 2170 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Monday, August 31, 2015 from 7:00 PM to 11:0... »
Back in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft introduced the concept of Dynamic Memory with the end goal being, optimization of how the Hyper-V Host (Management OS) allocated memory to the guest virtual machines. Think about it for a second…in a virtual infrastructure there’s a few required components. Network, Storage, Processor and Memory. Which of those resources will you run out of ... »