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Read it and keep
I have to confess to having quite a few real books in my house. Some of these books are reproductions of originals or have really big hi definition pictures in so they don’t work well as e-books. I...
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Server 4024 part 1 – Virtualisation
A database is only as good as the operating system it resides on. SQL Server only runs on Windows and given that Windows Server 2012 (WS2012) is a huge change from what there was in Server 2008 R2 what...
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Server 4024 part 2 - Management
In the second post in this series I wanted to look at how changes to the way you manage things in Windows Server 2012 (WS 2012) affects your management of SQL Server 2012 (SQL 2012). Multi Server...
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Evaluate This – NIC teaming
In the third in this video series I wanted to show you NIC Teaming..which is how you can provide a single network interface from multiple interface even if these are from different manufacturers....
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Evaluate This–DHCP Failover
Having looked at how NIC teaming makes the best use of your network card in my last video I wanted to explore another networking feature in Windows Server 2012, DHCP Failover.. You might be wondering...
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Evaluate This – Multi-server management
My favourite feature in Windows Server 2012 is it’s ability to manage and be managed. For those of you that aren’t yet PowerShell fans, then this means Server Manager and that's the main thing I am...
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Evaluate This–Server Core and MinShell
In my last video I showed you how to use Server Manager to manage lots of servers, and given that you want to do that, there is less of a need to have all the management tools on every server. So in...
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Evaluate This – Highly Availability File Servers
Storage in Windows Server 2012 is more than firing up a few file shares and setting up security on them. With SMB3 file shares can now be used to host high performance application data like running...
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Evaluate This - Shared Nothing Live Migration
In earlier versions of Windows Server you needed to build a cluster with shared storage (i.e. a SAN) if you wanted to move a virtual machine from server to server without stopping it (known as Live...
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Evaluate This–Storage Migration
In some smaller organisations virtual machines (VM) often run on local storage DAS – Direct Attached Storage on the hosts whereas in bigger businesses many if not all production VMs are hosted on...
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Evaluate This–High Availability Virtual Machines
Server virtualisation is all about decoupling the operating system form the hardware it’s running on, and one of the benefits of doing this is to ensure that a virtual machine (VM) can be made...
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Evaluate This–Collapsed Cluster
19 March 2013 - This post has been changed to reflect the best way to configure a cluster in a boxIn my last post I used two clusters; one to host a high availability (HA) file server where I stored a...
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Evaluate This – Hyper-V Replica
In many of the screencast in this series I have moved a VM around my demo setup, however there has only been the one copy of it whether it was on a scale-out file server, in a cluster or both. In any...
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Evaluate This–VDI
Microsoft is serious about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, and the first sign of this in Windows server is when you try and add a role or feature.. If you opt for install Remote Desktop Services...
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Evaluate This–Remote Desktop Services
In my last post I showed how easy it is to create virtual desktops in Windows Server 2012, and while that’s now a core part of providing remote desktops to your users there is still the good old...
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Evaluate This – Storage Spaces
So far in this series I have used the new storage features of Windows Server 2012 as a place to run VMs from, but there’s more to it than that. Shared storage used to mean presenting SAN storage...
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Server 4024 part 3 - Networking
Databases are typically bound either by networking or IO and actually this can be two sides of the same coin if you are using remote storage. So what’s new in Windows Server to improve networking both...
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Virtualisation and Interoperability
I often think that Microsoft is a bit like the English language, a lot of people speak it, a lot of people don’t and for many people it’s a second or third language they need for work e.g. air traffic...
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Virtualizing Tier 1 SQL Server
A while back I published a couple of posts on virtualizing SQL Server, and in the light of developments in both the virtualization platform out there and SQL Server itself I feel the need to do a...
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Bi Product
I have just read Paul Gregory’s guest post for the TechNet Flash, and the two things that caught my eye was to be bi-lingual and to keep your skills up to date. I put these two themes together and...
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