2012 R2 – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

Migrate Hyper-V 2012R2 VMs To Nutanix AHV

magander — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:38:42 +0000

The following blog post will cover the steps taken when I migrated a Hyper-V 2012 R2 VM running Windows Server 2008, called VM01 below, to Nutanix AHV version 20170830.115 and Nutanix AOS version 5.6. Yeah I know that Windows 2008 R2 is not the most modern OS but that was the constraint in this case …

Nutanix AHV and Windows Server Guest Customisation

magander — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 08:40:07 +0000

A while back i wrote a blog post about Nutanix AHV and Linux VM Guest Customization and based on that one i have had a few requests about how to do the same for Windows based VMs so that is the topic for this blog post. For Windows based systems, if deploying VMs from base/template …

VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 and VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 2 released

magander — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:09:34 +0000

VMware released VMware vCenter Server 5.1 U2 and VMware ESXi 5.1 U2 yesterday. I got quite a few customers running vSphere 5.1 and some of the problems fixed in update 2 has been seen in my customers environments so this is great news. One thing i know will be really appreciated, at least among my …