Cisco Nexus 1000v for Hyper-V includes;
- VLANs with local PVLAN Enforcement
- Port Profiles
- Traffic Visibility
- Virtual machine networking based on Cisco NX-OS operating system
- Integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1
- Layer 2 Switching
Download available here;
TechED North America 2013 Key Note; nicely done Mr Anderson!
Hyper-V Generation 2 Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machines will be legacy free and based on UEFI
- Boot from virtual SCSI controller and/or synthetic network adapters
- Secure Boot as standard
- Faster Virtual Machine boot times
- Supported guest operating systems are x64 Windows 8 / x64 Windows Server 2012 / x64 Windows 8.1 and x64 Windows Server 2012 R2.
Faster Live Migration
- Live Migration Compression of the host before it’s sent over the lan reduces the migration time by 50%.
- Live Migration with SMB Direct over high speed networks (RDMA) allows for faster live migrations.
Other new features are:
- Automatic Guest Virtual Machine Activation when the virtual machine is running inside an activated host running Windows Server 202 R2 Datacentre.
- Shared VHDX allows two virtual machines to share the same disk catering for guest clustering inside virtual machines without using iSCSI or virtual fibre adaptors.
- Linux Guest OS now supports dynamic memory and live backups.
- Hyper-V Replica 2.0 can replicate to a third Hyper-V host every 30 seconds / 5 minutes or every 15 minutes.
- Online resizing VHDX allowing the expansion and reduction of VHDX files while the virtual machine is running.
- Deduplication of Virtual Machines.
- Storage Quality of Service (QoS) can limit the IOPS per virtual machine
- Live Virtual Machine Cloning and Exporting
More information can be found here;
- Support Windows 8.1
- Manage Mobile Devices (BYOD) via Intune from SCCM
- Better management of iOS and Android devices
More information can be found here;
- Tiered Storage Spaces allows the mixing of SSD and traditional hard disks into a single storage space with "hot" blocks getting moved into SSD via the tiering algorithm.
- Windows PowerShell 4 and PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) extensions
- Work folders
- Workplace Join
More information can be found here;
The evolution of SQL Server;
- In-memory in the box enables breakthrough performance
- Delivering mission critical capabilities through new hybrid scenarios
- Unlocking real-time insights
More information can be found here;
Want to build a private cloud? Head over to Kevin Remde’s blog for more information and video series.
| Date | Title / Topic | Author |
| 1-Apr | Series Introduction - Build Your Private Cloud in a Month | Keith Mayer – @KeithMayer |
| 2-Apr |
Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2010 SP3 since the software was released.
Some issues that the update rollup resolves:
2750846 Information Store service crashes when you mount public folder databases on an Exchange Server 2010 server
2777742 Address Book service crashes on an Exchange Server 2010 Client Access server when a server has been running for 25 days or more
2782683 Email message that a user sends by using the "Send As" or "Send On Behalf" permission is saved only in the Sent Items folder of the sender in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2803132 Delayed email message delivery on a BlackBerry mobile device after you install Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2
2806602 EdgeTransport.exe process crashes on an Exchange Server 2010 Hub Transport server
2822208 Unable to soft delete some messages after installing Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 or SP3
Download SP3 UR1 here; KB and fixes can be found here.
As always please read the comments sections first!
I suspect if Dr Evil used Windows 8 he would probably have said “Windows frickin' 8!”; however it looks like Microsoft “may” have seen some sense, I say may because everything is subject to change.
- It looks like the Start Button is back which links to the Start Screen, so small yeah!
- It also looks like Boot to Desktop has been added, so another yeah!
- The Start screen looks like it can be sorted to show an “All Apps” instead of live tiles, so semi start menu which is better than nothing I guess, so another yeah.
- The metro background can display the same desktop background which should allow for a more seamless switch to the Start screen, so yeah baby!.
More information can be found here and here;
I must admit that I couldn't really warm to Windows 8; it wasn’t the changes that put me off per se, rather the stubbornness from Microsoft telling us that we had to use it or stay with Windows 7.
The title says new(ish) because the main features requested are not new and should have been in Windows 8 from day one! Microsoft could have easily hidden the features or used group policy to enable them; Windows 8 should have transitioned Windows 7 into Windows 9.
I believe that this was a win for consumers; something had to change and I’m glad Microsoft have seen some sense.
So in the words of Austin Powers “Au contraire baby, you can't resist me”
