Monthly Archives: January 2012
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
Standing up your own System Center 2012 LAB -
Well I promised that this year I would start posting more of my technology adventures. Well I have spent a ton of time with MDT 2010 Update 1 and I thought it was finally time to take a look at … 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