Microsoft has released a Hyper-V BPA this week, but unfortunately it’s only for Windows Server 2008 R2 which is a shame for us SBS focused types. The Hyper-V BPA is available as an update via Windows Update or here. I’ve run it on my test Hyper-V R2 server this morning and it gave these results. If you go into each of the options you can see what is compliant and … [Read more...]
Hyper-V for SMB Case Studies
During today’s webcast with ThirdTier, I used the example of a client scenario that we (Correct Solutions) used technology to solve real world business problems. The client was real, the scenario was real, and the solution was real. That is what makes it more exciting. It was not just some hypothetical solution, but something we deployed for this client (and … [Read more...]
Want to know more about Hyper-V in SMB?
In conjunction with Third Tier, I’m presenting a webinar next Friday morning (Sydney time that is) or Thursday afternoon USA time :-) The webinar is based on my own experiences spec’ing, quoting, selling and installing Hyper-V environments for our SMB clients. We’ll talk about the reasons Hyper-V is good and bad and walk through some of the specs I’ve used in real world … [Read more...]
Fabulatech USB over Ethernet Problems
Many of you will know that I’ve been a big proponent of the Fabulatech USB over Ethernet software specifically for use with the Microsoft Hyper-V environments. I’ve spoken very highly of their product and how we use it in our client environments. Well I’m sorry to say that has changed. We are now testing an alternate product to suit this requirement called KernelPro. So far … [Read more...]
HP Proliant ML330 G6
Recently HP released the 6th generation of their product line. As part of that they released the ML330 G6. This server is focused on the mid level SMB client and includes features that are designed to answer their business requirements. I’ve been fortunate to have one of these servers for quite a few months now as I was beta testing it for HP. During the beta I found that … [Read more...]