Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) News & Support Resources

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Microsoft Hyper-V Real-Time Performance Monitoring and Management

August 22, 2016

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By now, many people have heard about (and sing the praises of) ControlUp and our unique way of bringing IT insights to sysadmins around the world. In version 4.0, we introduced Hypervisor integration to extend our real-time performance monitoring to the virtualization world, starting with VMware ESXi and XenServer. Now, in version 6, we are […]

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DataCore Unleashes Significant Performance Enhancements for Software-Defined Storage and Enterprise Class Hyper-converged Solutions

May 31, 2016

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Parallel I/O Advances, Deeper Hypervisor Integration, Richer Monitoring and Planning Tools, More Granular Quality of Service (QoS) Controls, Certified VVOLs Support and Lower Cost Bulk Storage Among Product Upgrades in Latest Software Update DataCore today announced significant performance enhancements to two of its product lines: DataCore™SANsymphony™ Software-Defined Storage (SDS) platform and DataCore™ Hyper-converged Virtual SAN. […]

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Embotics vCommander added to WhatMatrix – straight into Top 3 in CMP category

May 5, 2016

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We welcome Embotics to our Cloud Management Platform evaluation category. We’ve added their Cloud Management Software vCommander version 5.6.3 to our technical comparison and after evaluating its capabilities it went straight into the “top 3″ of the category, reflecting the increasing capabilities of Embotics. One of the (differentiating) key value propositions of vCommander is the […]

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Private Cloud Management: Bringing Control to System Center Virtual Machine Manager

April 27, 2016

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Many customers I speak with are looking towards the cloud. But more often than not, when I ask what cloud means to them, they respond by saying that they are looking to build their own private cloud infrastructure as opposed to outsourcing the entirety of their environment to a third party. Some infrastructure teams are […]

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Download Veeam Free Stencils for VMware and Hyper-V

March 31, 2016

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Veeam Software provides a free collection of VMware and Hyper-V virtualization Visio stencils that can be used by ESX administrators, system integrators and datacenter managers to create their own diagrams in Microsoft Visio 2003, 2007, 2010 or 2013 as part of your Hyper-V or VMware deployment planning. Create detailed diagrams and gain valuable business insights. […]

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HotLink: Hybrid Express w/ SCVMM & Amazon EC2 Plugin Podcast – Episode 170

January 9, 2016

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In episode 170, Douglas Brown interviews Lynn LeBlanc, CEO & Founder at HotLink Corporation. Lynn and Douglas discuss HotLink’s new Microsoft SCVMM and Amazon EC2 integration to their heterogeneous virtualization management solution. About Hotlink Hybrid Express HotLink Hybrid Express is a management plug-in to VMware vCenter or Microsoft SCVMM for deploying, administering and managing Amazon […]

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Four Free VDI options for KVM hypervisor

January 7, 2016

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Most customers with VDI deployments are running Horizon View, Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp; or other smaller market players such as Dell vWorkspace and Ericom. Few early adopters are also exploring Microsoft VDI with Hyper-V and SCVMM; which has proven to be a stable platform scaling to approximately 1500 virtual desktops. However, I see an increasing […]

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What’s New with Microsoft Virtualization, and Cloud Podcast with Microsoft – Episode 66

January 7, 2016

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In episode 66, Douglas Brown interviews David Greschler, Director of Virtualization Strategy at Microsoft. Doug and David discuss what’s new with Microsoft Virtualization and Microsoft Cloud Computing! David and Doug also discuss the following subjects: • What’s New with Microsoft Virtualization, App-V, and Hyper-V • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 • Microsoft Enterprise Desktop […]

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Microsoft Virtualization Launch Conversation with Microsoft’s Mike Neil – Episode 59

January 7, 2016

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A few weeks ago Microsoft officially launched their Virtualization 360 offerings, including their hypervisor – Hyper-V, application virtualization solution – App-V, and their virtualization management solution – System Center Virtual Machine Manager. At the official launch, held on September 8, I was very fortunate to be able to sit down with Microsoft’s Mike Neil, General […]

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DABCC Radio Live at Citrix iForum 07 The App Delivery Expo – Recap Part 2 – Episode 24

December 29, 2015

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Welcome back to our Citrix iForum 07 The App Delivery Expo Recap! Last week I had the fun task to walk around the Exhibit hall and “podcast” the event and I’m very happy to say that each day this week we will release a “Recap” Podcast. In each podcast I will release two to three […]

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Create Hyper-V failover cluster on Nutanix

October 20, 2015

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Hyper-V is one, out of three (VMware ESXi and Nutanix Acropolis aka. AHV are on the support list too) hypervisors supported by Nutanix. There are two ways you can create create Hyper-V failover cluster on Nutanix. You can do it either manually or use scripts provided by Nutanix. In this blog post I will show to […]

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Wyse vWorkspace High Availability

September 10, 2015

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The latest release of Wyse vWorkspace (version 8.6) includes quite an array of improvements. One of which is the ability to configure high availability (HA) natively. Until now, Microsoft SCVMM was a required 3rd party tool that had to be installed separately if one wanted to configure their vWorkspace VDI environment for HA. With this […]

HP LeftHand OS Version 12.5 enhancement: Quorum Witness

September 10, 2015

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Some days ago, HP released version 12.5 for it’s StoreVirtual platform (StoreVirtual 4000 storage/StoreVirtual VSA software). This new version includes some enhancements (copy of the Release Note): Two-node quorum, which allows for a Quorum Witness in a two-node configuration. The Status of Quorum Witness is displayed in the output of the getNSMInfo and getGroupInfo commands. […]

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Manage Azure VMs with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)

July 20, 2015

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With Update Rollup 6 it is possible to add one or more Azure subscriptions to SCVMM 2012 R2. When the Azure subscription is added in SCVMM, it is possible to perform some basic actions such as: Add and Remove one or more Azure subscriptions by using the VMM console. See a list view with details […]

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