Category Archives: Hyper-V
Migrating a Production Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V Cluster to a Server 2012 Production Hyper-V Cluster
Many of you have immersed yourselves in the different versions of Hyper-V by now. As such I have found that a lot of customers are running production workloads on Hyper-V. What do you do when you need to Migrate to … Continue reading
Extremely Slow Performance on Production SQL Workload running on Hyper-V
Today’s Issue – Extremely Slow performance of a SQL Server running on Hyper-V Windows 2008 R2 SP1. This is a very common customer issue that I run into and the first step is understanding why this is happening? Could it … Continue reading
NEW SMB Hyper-V Design
I know a lot of you have been searching for good SMB Hyper-V solutions. Well here is a really nice one that I have just recently designed for one of my smaller customers. They have around 150 users worldwide and … Continue reading
Presenting at Prarie DevCon in Calgary, Alberta–March 13, 2012
I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting the following sessions at PrarieDevCon in Calgary. These will be a repeat of the sessions that I did at TechDays last year with some updated content. There are a lot … Continue reading
Techdays Canada–Presentations now online!
Well after a long wait one of my presentations from Microsoft Canada’s Techdays is finally here. In this presentation I discussed all of the performance tips and tricks from a production Hyper-V solution. Often times we get technology implemented and … Continue reading
Microsoft RemoteFX–USB Redirection
Ok so the first round of testing went well with RemoteFX. Now let’s check out some of the other cool features like USB Redirection. I have actually had some of my customers over the past few years go to XenDesktop … Continue reading
Exchange 2010 SP2–Deployment 1st time
Well I normally forget to document when I do things for a first time but my new years resolution is to make sure I do it more diligently in 2012. Tonight I will be upgrading a production Exchange 2010 SP1 … Continue reading
Microsoft Remote FX–Deployment in my Home Lab
I have been waiting a long time to test out the performance of Microsoft’s Remote FX. It was just a bit out of my price range for a home lab until this point. It still is hard to figure out … Continue reading
Nit and Grit Labs–My Showcase of Technology
Well I have finally had a few minutes last night to start rebuilding my lab environment. I wanted to showcase many of the technologies that I have been working with over the past few years. My Lab rebuild includes the … Continue reading
Performance Tuning your Hyper-V Farm – Configuring Host Reserves
When recently testing performance of Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory I encountered an interesting issue. The performance of my Parent Partition (Host OS) was terrible. Basically all of my guest workloads consumed all available memory on the system. As … Continue reading