Tag Archives: Hyper-V
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
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
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
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
Demystifying the Microsoft Virtualization Stack – Screen Cast Series Part 4
This is part 4 in my Screencast Series on Demystifying the Microsoft Virtualization Stack. I have to mention a very special thanks to Rick Claus from Microsoft Canada. He did all the editing on the videos and really made these … Continue reading
Demystifying the Microsoft Virtualization Stack – Screen Cast Series Part 3
Here is the third video in my Sreencast series. In this video we will continue to focus on our two node cluster build, Reccommendations for NIC Naming Conventions, IP Addressing and Cluster Network Metrics, Binding Orders, Disabling IPV6 (If required), … Continue reading
Demystifying the Microsoft Virtualization Stack – Screen Cast Series Part 2
Here is the 2nd part of my Screencast series — I am really excited to get this published. I included some great stuff in here about architecture, projects and configurations to maximize Hyper-V performance – this episode talks about Node … Continue reading
Demystifying the Microsoft Virtualization Stack – Screen Cast Series Part 1
Hello Hyper-V and System Center faithful. One of the jobs I took on over the summer was to do a screencast series on the Microsoft Virtualization Stack and how it compares to VMware. I am now done 4 parts of my … Continue reading
TechDays 2011 – Here we come (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver)
Once again this year I have the privilege of being selected as a guest speaker. This year will be my busiest ever as I am leading 3 of 8 Sessions in the Virtualization track. These sessions are all based on … Continue reading