Nirmal Sharma A Practical Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Replica: Part II A Hyper-V replica installation provides rapid disaster-recovery by asynchronously replicating a VM running at a primary site to a replica site. Know how to prepare... 12 September 2013 14 min read
Nirmal Sharma A Practical Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Replica: Part I A Hyper-V replica installation provides a great opportunity for providing rapid disaster-recovery by asynchronously replicating a VM running at a primary site to a replica... 10 June 2013 34 min read
Nirmal Sharma Hyper-V Migration Technologies Hyper-V has become far more sophisticated since the release V3 of Windows 2012, but it means that there are now a number of alternative ways... 21 March 2013 29 min read
Nirmal Sharma Book Review: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook is a comprehensive resource for administrators and consultants looking for practical examples of Hyper-V technology. Beginners unfamiliar with Hyper-V and... 15 February 2013 8 min read
Nirmal Sharma Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part III A configuration of Hyper-V networking across two or more Hyper-V Hosts is the most complex type. It needs to be configured according to the business... 14 February 2013 17 min read
Nirmal Sharma Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part 2 Hyper-V Networking can be configured to meet a wide range of requirements, but it isn't always obvious which choices are appropriate when configuring the virtual... 10 January 2013 16 min read
Learn SQL Server Roy Ernest in Learn SQL Server Resource Governor If you suffer from runaway queries, if you have several database applications with unpredictable fluctuation in workload, or if you need to ensure that workloads... 26 October 2011 23 min read
Sean Duffy VMware Lab setup – A virtualized lab for testing HA and DRS VMWare VSphere is a virtualisation technology that is best learned by setting up, on a single PC, a VSphere cluster as a virtualisation lab. Once... 12 April 2011 24 min read
Richard Morris Jorge Segarra: DBA of the Day Jorge Segarra, also known on Twitter as 'SQLChicken', was one of the finalists of the Exceptional DBA award this year. He lives and works in... 26 November 2010 13 min read
Sean Duffy Setting up your own free Virtualized test environment If you need to test new software, configurations, or operating systems, a virtual machine saves time, risk and hardware. You can set up a virtual... 26 August 2010 12 min read
Jaap Wesselius Hyper-V R2 Live Migration on Server Core – Part I If you're working with Hyper-V, it's recommended that you use Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core for your root partition, as its stripped-down nature makes... 06 July 2010 12 min read
Jonathan Medd 10 Steps to Kick-Start Your VMware Automation with PowerCLI Virtualization is a powerful technology, but it comes with its own host of monotonous and time-consuming tasks, no matter how big or small your organization... 02 June 2010 17 min read
Sean Duffy Virtual Machine Storage Provisioning and Best Practises If you're using virtualization technology, then at some point you'll have run out of (or will run out of) virtual disk space, leading to the... 14 May 2010 17 min read
Jaap Wesselius Hyper-V R2 Live Migration Reliability is one of the great payoffs to virtualization, and failover clustering has got a whole lot better with Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. Now,... 10 February 2010 11 min read
Jonathan Medd Using VMware vCenter Update Manager to keep your vSphere Hosts Up-To-Date with Patching The chore of patching operating systems and applications is taking an increasing proportion of the time of a system administrator, so it is a a... 09 February 2010 15 min read
Ben Lye Regional Office Virtualization – Less Can Be More The dream of an 'office in a box' has been around for years, but the increasing sophistication of virtualization software has turned the dream into... 14 January 2010 7 min read
Nirmal Sharma Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part 1 In the first of a series of articles on Hyper-V Networking, Nirmal explains Hyper-V networking and VLAN tagging, and shows how to set up a... 11 December 2009 14 min read
Nirmal Sharma Increasing the Availability of Virtualised Applications and Services By using a virtualized clustering computing environment with failover, you can improve server availability without using as many physical computers. A group of independent computers... 22 October 2009 23 min read
Brien Posey A Beginner’s Guide to Virtualizing Exchange Server, Part 2 It isn't easy to measure the consumption of physical resources by servers in virtual machines, since each partition has its' own virtualised view of system... 10 June 2009 14 min read
Jaap Wesselius Windows Server Virtualisation: Hyper-V, an Introduction For SQL Server and Exchange Server, Windows Server Virtualization is going to be increasingly important as a way for the administrator to allocate hardware resources... 01 June 2009 11 min read