Posts made in September, 2011

Shout out to Mr Charles Joy for this one, I have a few comments on the last series of posts for parameters in C# which has proved a slight challenge to get working for some of you. I promise to post the VS project as soon as i get the WordPress server fixed for hosting attachments. Added a small code edit below to represent the new ODATA URI in Orchestrator 2012 RC and newer builds (Line 160) However this next sample should address all the questions you might have, and also show off the solutions from a VB users perspective. Imports System.Net Imports System.IO Imports System.Text Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions Module Module1 Dim OrchestratorServer As String = "localhost" Dim JobGUID As String Dim ParamNames As New List(Of String) Dim...

At this point of the process, we will now check to see if we have Clouds (UserRoles), which are still floating around the environment, but do not have any Virtual Machines running on the fabric. This will help us focus on only the Clouds which are in use to move over, and ignore the other Clouds. Now, this is of course not clear cut; Its quite possible that a cloud is still needed, but the current workloads have not yet been deployed, or the users are just mid-process of clearing down the existing. Therefore, use the output of this as information, to combine with your knowledge of which clouds might be in these transition states. The following function will report back all the UserRoles (Clouds) which have an associated VM running which is owned by a member of the...

It is all happening now, the results are in on the Big Hyper-V Survey of 2011 has made it clear we are building up to the clouds; and Microsoft have now Released to the Web the Release Candidate Build of SCVMM 2012. This suite of software will be one of the key corner stones in all our MS Private Cloud solutions – Going as far to call this part of the Foundation! If you have not already looked at the Beta code, or if you found some of the concepts in the Beta odd, and unsure how to correctly implement some of these, then you will be delighted to hear that Networks and a lot more features have been completely restructured. Go grab the latest and greatest Code on the Microsoft site, and join us as we work on the Great Migration SCVMM 2012 RC Download...

If the next twelve months are going to be busy building clouds, then if the feedback is accurate we are going to be pretty busy, but then is that new? The real question here, is how are we going to manage these clouds? Will we need to learn new tooling, do we have to invest in software, and how much new infrastructure will need to put in place? We already know that 99% of all the Hyper-V environments are still managed by Microsoft’s own tool’s, with 60% already running Virtual Machine Manager or Essentials; though I am not so sure that Essentials will get us where we need to be. But control is not restricted to just Hyper-V, Failover Clustering Manager, Essentials or even Virtual Machine Manager; there are many more products in the Microsoft Suite, and...

It is with great pleasure that  myself, Hans Vredvoort, and Aidan Finn, can now share the results of the the Big Hyper-V Survey of 2011! Over the next days we will post our opinions on what we have gathered from the survey, which you have hopefully submitted to, along with 650+ others around the world answering  80 questions on topic’s including: Their Hyper-V project Their Hyper-V installations Systems management Private cloud Their future plans But, why take our opinion – Make your own – We are sharing the RAW Data Publically for you to create your own conclusions. All we ask is that you reference the source of the information. Grab the ZIP here! and share your...