This is a question that came up which made me wonder why does the enterprise really need an open source cloud platforms like Openstack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, etc. What I tend to hear is that our IT needs to be more like AWS, Rackspace or Azure but what does that really mean? When I dissect...
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So I had this issue and wanted to post how I was able to fix it, if not to help someone else who may be faced with this problem, to help me remember if I run into it again. The error is show below. "An error occurred while trying to retrieve a list of...
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Now I don't think I have to say that this came from someone employed at a certain company that starts with an "S" and ends with an "E". I have nothing against the company or this person that sent the email because I understand where that persons motives are. But don't try to sell...
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After watching the keynote for WWDC today something came to mind. It was of a commercial but it took awhile for me to actually remember what it was about. All I could remember was that it pleased the adult and the kid in a person. I thought about it because of how excited I...
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This week Microsoft announced their new IaaS pricing and a couple changes stand out. No charge for powered off VMs per minute billing This is weeks after Google announced their Google Compute Cloud IaaS offering which those two things as differentiators from its competitors. So I don’t think it was coincidental that Microsoft followed...
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License key management for virtual machines running in Hyper-V will become automatic in R2. This is definitely a nice and welcome feature but from what I know now it will only be available if your virtualization host is running Windows Datacenter 2012 R2. Plus the only operating system currently listed to support this feature...
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One feature with any good virtualization solution should have the ability to make your VMs mobile. With VMware the feature is called vMotion and with Hyper-V it's Live Migration. When your just using the Hyper-V manager and you need to do a live migration from one system to the next you would have to...
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Just in time for Christmas and the New Year the long awaited SP1 for System Center 2012 is available. At least to those of us on Technet and MSDN. I’m a bit late on sending this out since it’s been available on Technet since the 20th of December. It boggled my mind that Microsoft...
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So lets configure NIC Teaming in Powershell now.
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I'm not sure about anyone else but I'm really over hearing how big of a VM a vendor can create or the promise of 1 million IOPS. This really became annoying while sitting in a presentation about Microsoft's latest version of Hyper-V but VMware, you also think the size of your "V" M is...
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