System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012

Installing the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Console on Windows 8.1 and Connecting to a VMM Management Server Using the VMM Console

In this article, you will install Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) console on Windows 8.1 workstation for managing VMM Management server. In VMware, VMware vSphere Client is used in this scenario. But in VMM, the workstation on which you install the VMM console must be a member of an Active Directory Domain. To setup this process, log on user should be […]

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System Center 2012 VMM

Installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 a Standalone Server in Windows Server 2012 R2 Step by Step Guide

Virtual Machine Manager(VMM) is a component of System Center 2012 R2 that manages solution for the virtualized data center, enabling you to create and deploy virtual machines and services to private clouds by configuring and managing your virtualization hosts, networking and storage resources. In System Center 2012 R2, a VMM Server can support up to 1,000 hosts and 25,000 virtual […]

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Hyper-V

Configuring Storage Live Migration in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

Storage Live Migration is a process of moving a running virtual machine’s virtual storage from one disk to another with no loss of application downtime. In Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, you are not able to move the virtual machine’s storage while the virtual machine is running. Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 introduces a new feature known as Live Storage […]

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Hyper-V

Configuring Share-Nothing Live Migration in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

Moving a running virtual machine from one host to another with no downtime to running applications is called Live Migration that works with Standalone servers or Failover Cluster server. Live migration without shared storage (also known as “Shared Nothing” live migration) is new in Windows Server 2012, and it’s continue in Windows Server 2012 R2 with some add Advanced features […]

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Hyper-V

Support for USB access in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V through Microsoft’s new Virtual Machine Enhanced Session Mode

In Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V, now there is support for USB device in Hyper-V guest VMs with a new feature called Virtual Machine Connection- Enhanced Session Mode. With this feature, Hyper-V can now redirect local resources to a virtual machine sessions through Virtual Machine Connection tool. It all happens not over network connection, that’s why it’s different than normal […]

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Configuring Hyper-V Replica in Windows Server 2012 R2

Hyper-V Replica is a new feature added to the Hyper-V Role in Windows Server 2012 Standard / Data Center and Hyper-V Server 2012. It uses an asynchronous data replication technology for organizations to implement an affordable Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) solution for virtualized workloads. This allows virtual machines running at a Primary Site to be efficiently replicated to […]

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Implementing Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Failover Clustering

A failover cluster is a group of two or more computers working together to increase the availability of a clustered services or applications. To make virtual machines highly available in Hyper-V environment, we must implement failover clustering on the Hyper-V host servers. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V comes with a number of new features and improvements for Hyper-V high availability and […]

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Installing and Configuring Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 for Remote Management using the HVRemote Tool in Workgroup

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012, the Enterprise-class free virtualization solution from Microsoft, which has all the features included on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. The only difference is that Microsoft Hyper-V Server does not include virtual machine licenses and only Local Command Line Interface. It is only designed for remote management. Remote management for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 is really hard for […]

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Configuring Port ACLs in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Virtual Machine

ACLs (Access Control Lists) are essentially a list of permit or deny statements that control network access to enforce a security policy. ACLs are an integral part of end-to-end security solution. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V introduces new feature called Port ACLs. Using Port ACLs, rules can be applied to a Hyper-V switch port. The rules specify whether packets are allowed […]

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Configuring Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

NIC teaming is a new feature of Windows Server 2012, which allows multiple network adapters to be placed into a team for the purpose of providing network fault tolerance and continuous availability. When one of the network adapters fail, the other one takes over without requiring third-party hardware or software. Windows Server 2012 NIC teaming is supported by any vendor’s […]

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