For some time I write a whitepaper about how to implement a highly available private cloud to host virtual machines. On this day of Christmas, I have finished and published it. You can download it from this link. This whitepaper explains how to implement a Private Cloud with Windows Azure Pack in high availability from scratch. So I talk about ...
Read More »Use Scale-Out File Server with Virtual Machine Manager
Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) is a new feature of Windows Server 2012. This feature provides a file service for application (such as Hyper-V) in an active/active cluster thanks to SMB 3.0. Because this feature uses the Failover Clustering feature, some disks must be connected to each node to convert them in Cluster Share Storage (CSV). These disks can be connected ...
Read More »Make a VMM Cloud failover with Hyper-V Recovery Manager in Azure
In Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) a private cloud is an entity where you specify an amount of computing resource (CPU, RAM, storage etc.) that you provide to users called tenant in VMM. When a cloud is created and available, some rights can be set on tenants such as create Virtual Machines (VM). So these last can use the private cloud ...
Read More »Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part4 – Hyper-V host provisioning
Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part1 – Introduction Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part2 – Prepare Networking Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part3 – Prepare OS deployment Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part4 – Hyper-V host provisioning To finish this series of articles about Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2, I ...
Read More »Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part3 – Prepare OS deployment
Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part1 – Introduction Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part2 – Prepare Networking Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part3 – Prepare OS deployment Bare-Metal Deployment of Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part4 – Hyper-V host provisioning Now that network configuration is done in VMM fabric, it’s time to prepare the ...
Read More »Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part2 – Prepare Networking
Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part1 – Introduction Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part2 – Prepare Networking Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part3 – Prepare OS deployment Bare-Metal Deployment of Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part4 – Hyper-V host provisioning In this part I will present you the configuration of networking in Virtual Machine ...
Read More »Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part1 – Introduction
Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part1 – Introduction Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part2 – Prepare Networking Bare-Metal Deployment Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part3 – Prepare OS deployment Bare-Metal Deployment of Hyper-V host with VMM 2012R2 Part4 – Hyper-V host provisioning Thanks to virtualization, the provisioning of new virtual machines (VM) is pretty easy and ...
Read More »Synology NAS for Hyper-V purpose
Since two years I have a Synology DS412+ which provides me share for personnal use (such as holiday photos :p). This NAS is nice to share files accross network to computers, TV, smartphone etc. As I have a lot of holiday photos, I had to change all disks for more disk space. Below old configuration : 4 x Western Digital RE4 500Go RAID ...
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