As organizations change hypervisor platforms or undergo a merger or acquisition, there may be the need to convert from one hypervisor to the other. For example, organizations may need to convert from VMware vSphere to Microsoft Hyper-V to consolidate their virtualization technologies. Converting a VMware [...]
What is Azure Virtual Network? Azure Virtual Network (VNet) is the fundamental building block for your private network in Azure. VNet enables many types of Azure resources, such as Azure Virtual Machines (VM), to securely communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises networks. Table [...]
In the last two articles, we talked about WSUS fundamentals and how to install WSUS on your Windows Server 2022 or any earlier operating system. In this article, we will go through the initial setup of your WSUS server and explain some important things. The [...]
Introduction When you have several Azure Virtual Machines to deploy, the customization process of each system can be time-consuming. Traditionally IT Admins have been using a Golden Image to deploy a machine within their organization. Table of Contents Requirements Getting Started What is “Sysprep”? Windows [...]
One of the strength that makes PowerShell one of the best scripting languages is the flexibility and simplicity it offers in working with objects. That flexibility can be demonstrated by the cmdlets available to convert objects to and from a different type. There is a [...]
When designing any system for high availability, one of the basic fundamentals of engineering in any system is to provide redundancy. Redundancy ensures that if you do have failures (you will), there are components or mechanisms in place that will take over for the failed [...]
Today’s hypervisor can do really amazing things from many different aspects, including compute and memory, storage, and networking. Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V is no exception and can provide enterprise environments with a powerful solution to provide solutions to most business-critical use cases. Windows Server Hyper-V [...]
When working with a Hyper-V host or Hyper-V cluster, you may have access to other hypervisors, such as VMware vSphere. Hyper-V can easily be nested inside a VMware vSphere virtual machine, allowing you to play around with Hyper-V and clustered Hyper-V environments. Let's consider installing [...]
Windows Server 2019 brings about significant improvements across the platform when it comes to software-defined solutions. Software-defined storage is garnering a lot of attention from customers as most are looking outside of traditional storage with upcoming refreshes for storage infrastructure. With Storage Spaces Direct being [...]
Navigating Microsoft Azure's security landscape requires making numerous sophisticated choices. A critical decision among these is determining whether to utilize Azure's Native Firewall or to take advantage of one of the numerous Vendor Virtual Appliances (VVAs) accessible in the Azure marketplace. In this blog, I [...]
