This past weekend I decided to dive into VMware vCloud Director 5.1. Nothing fancy, just a small setup in a lab environment for testing, learning, and just getting a feel for what all the product could do for me and/or my customers. I figured this can't be that hard with only a "vmware-vcloud-director-5.1.0-810718.bin" file...
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The last part I'm going to cover in this series is how to install the Hyper-V role on server core system. This can be done a few different ways so I'll show how to do it using powershell and how it can be done using Server Manager from a remote system.
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In this post we continue with setting up and managing the Hyper-V server core system. Now in order to manage the server core system remotely we need to install the Hyper-V management tools on another server that has a GUI.
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In this part after the installation we can give the system a hostname, ip address and configure DNS. This will all be done from the terminal and powershell. After you have logged into the system with the administrator account here is the process to follow.
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So now with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 available, I figured it would be nice to do a step by step setup and install of getting Hyper-V up and running. The focus here is really to show how you would get Hyper-V setup using the manual installation method. I'll also show how you can use...
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The public beta for VMware's online Hands on Labs will be opening soon. If you have any interest in testing it out you should get registered now for this public beta.
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If you haven't heard by now VMware announced a new license model for VMware vSphere 5.x. Say it with me "NO vRAM"! That's right the vRAM licensing model is gone. But it doesn't just stop their, VMware has odiously heard the cries of it's customers and has gone even further. In addition to there...
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Mitch Tulloch has updated his free ebook on Windows Server 2012 based on the RTM version of the software. This free ebook has much valuable information on the new Windows Server 2012 operating systems platform. It includes both “under-the-hood” information concerning how features work, and strategies, tips, and best practices from experts who have...
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So in the VMware Community podcast this week we got to talking a post that Massimo wrote about how he sees the storage path of the future. You should and can check it out here. I understand it's a general interpretation of something that is not yet something we can implement as he...
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If you didn't hear already Microsoft has released Windows Server 2012. It's been a long time waiting but you can truly use totally redesigned operating system from Microsoft for production workloads without worrying about not getting support. So here is some the information about the editions you can get your hands on.
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