Category: Hyper-V

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages – Microsoft vs. VMware

More than a dozen videos were released at Technet site related to Hyper-V and System Center 2012. These videos are 4 courses part of Microsoft Virtual Academy. All these videos compare Microsoft Technologies against VMware’s. Even though these videos are created by Microsoft they show very accurate the difference between the technologies that are compared. We can see that how Microsoft is turning from follower to a leader in a lot of areas in the Virtualization and the Private Cloud. No further explanation is needed you can just watch the videos and make up your mind for the capabilities that both companies offer:

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of Hyper-V Server 2012 over VMware ESXi 5.0

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of System Center 2012 over VMware’s Management Technologies

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.0

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of the Microsoft Private Cloud over the VMware Private Cloud

Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Reference Documentation is released

The Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Program is a joint reference architecture for building private clouds, which combines Microsoft software, consolidated guidance, and validated configurations with hardware partner computing power, network, and storage architectures; and value-added software components.

The provide documents can be very useful in designing Private Cloud Solution based on System Center 2012:

Virtual Machine Manager Dashboards from the OpsMgr Unleashed team

The authors of System Center Operations Manager 2012 Unleashed book are offering free for download a dashboard for Virtual Machine Manager. The management pack offers dashboards as:

  • VMM Guest Health
  • VMM Guest Resources
  • VMM Host Performance
  • VMM Hosts and Guests
  • VMM Performance
  • VMM Server Service Level Objective
  • VMM Summary Dashboard

Screenshots from the MP can bee found here and the MP itself can be downloaded from here.

Several Sessions for Windows Server 2012

Below are some interesting sessions about Windows Server 2012. Keep in mind they are mostly overview of the capabilities of the new server version:

KB: Virtual machine configuration resources online failure during migration or startup

Find the cause and the solution of the problem here.