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Windows Server and System Center 2012 R2 Previews Are Available

June 25, 2013 // 0 Comments

It’s all over social media this morning; You can download WSSC 2012 R2 (That’s WS2012 R2 and SC/SysCtr 2012 R2) from TechNet and MSDN right now. The previews for the following are available now: Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Windows server 2012 R2 Datacenter [...]

Update Rollup 2 For System Center 2012 SP1 Is Released

April 10, 2013 // 2 Comments

Microsoft has released UR2 for System Center 2012 SP1 via Windows Update. That means you’ll auto download and deploy (pending manual/auto approval on your part) this update via WSUS, etc. You can also manually download the updates to each product. Note that VMM is not included [...]

System Center Data Protection Manager CSV Serialization Tool

February 5, 2013 // 1 Comment

I recently blogged about the big changes In WS2012 Cluster Shared Volume (CSV). The biggest changes are related to backup: Single coordinated VSS snapshot No more redirected IO In Windows Server 2008 R2 CSV backup, we tried to use a hardware VSS provider to reduce the impacts of redirected [...]

Online Backup to Windows Azure Using System Center 2012 SP1 – Data Protection Manager

September 10, 2012 // 2 Comments

I blogged about Windows Azure Online Backup in March of this year. What was announced then was a way to get an offsite backup of files and folders (only) into Windows Azure directly from Windows Server 2012 (including the Essentials edition). The online backup market is pretty crowded and [...]

MMS 2012: Automating Data Protection And Recovery With DPM and System Center 2012

April 20, 2012 // 0 Comments

Speakers: Orin Thomas and Mike Ressler Replication is not the same as backup. Lose it in site A = lose it in site B. Backup is still required. And backup provisioning in the private cloud is a challenge cos admins don’t know what’s being deployed. DPM is a part of system [...]

CTP of SP1 for System Center 2012

March 10, 2012 // 0 Comments

Following my post on information for VMM 2012 SP1 CTP, Microsoft released the CTP downloads. This includes the VMM download and a download for DPM 2012 SP1 CTP. The CTP enables the Data Protection Manager component’s repository and agents to run on Windows Server ‘8” as well [...]

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica … In Detail

March 5, 2012 // 81 Comments

If you asked me to pick the killer feature of WS2012 Hyper-V, then Replica would be high if not at the top of my list (64 TB VHDX is right up there in the competition). In Ireland, and we’re probably not all that different from everywhere else, the majority of companies are in the small/medium [...]

Licensing DPM 2010

October 13, 2011 // 1 Comment

Two of the System Center products that are generally available have unusual licensing. System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 is one of those 2 unusual ones. Typically for an installation you will buy: A server license: For example System Center Operations Manager, optionally with SQL [...]

Results & Report on The Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2011

September 7, 2011 // 4 Comments

FIND THE RESULTS & REPORT HERE I am pleased to present the results and a report on The Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2011, that was conducted by myself, Hans Vredvoort, and Damian Flynn. We conducted this report over the last few weeks, asking people from around the world to answer 80 questions [...]

Great Big Hyper-V Survey 2011 Is Now Closed

September 5, 2011 // 0 Comments

I closed the Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2011 this morning at 10:05 (Dublin time, 11:05 CET, 5:05 EST). Thank you to all who completed the survey. Myself, Damian Flynn (another Hyper-V MVP), and Hans Vredevoort (Failover Clustering MVP) will be sharing the results on this Wednesday (7th [...]