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Why Does Microsoft Hyper-V Not Support NFS?

By On June 2, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Opinion, Storage, Uncategorized, Virtualisation

I recently wrote an article covering storage for virtualisation and was surprised to find out that Microsoft does not support the use of NFS shares with Hyper-V.  At first I thought perhaps I was doing something wrong and that my configuration was in error.  But after a lot of [...]

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Comparing iSCSI Targets – Microsoft, StarWind, iSCSI Cake and Kernsafe – Part I

By On April 11, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Reviews, Storage

This week, Microsoft released their iSCSI Target software for general availability.  Previously this had only been available for installations with Windows Storage Server via OEMs.  Now anyone with Windows 2008 R2 can install and use the software without restrictions.  However, there are already a number of other iSCSI target software offerings already on the market, [...]

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Microsoft Q&A Session: IP Expo 2010

By On December 2, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Cloud

Before IP Expo this year, I was invited to a Q&A session with Zane Adam, Microsoft General Manager for Azure.    I’ve not posted any video from the event (yet).  Fortunately Microsoft have saved me the effort and posted a few clips online.  Here’s one video with a few interesting questions.

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Enterprise Computing: Hitachi Enters The Cloud

By On October 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud, GestaltIT

Yesterday Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) used SNW USA to release information on their proposed cloud strategy, referred to as “Agile Cloud”.  Everyone believes they need a cloud story and clearly Hitachi are no different.

Taken from the presentation I was given last week, is the following picture.  This pretty much sums up [...]

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Bl** Hyper-V!

By On October 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

Well, I wasted 3 hours of my life last night trying to get Hyper-V working on one of my PC/servers. Admittedly it’s an ancient 2 years old, only has PCI-Express, SATA-II support and up to 4-core Intel processors, but for some reason, my attempts to install Hyper-V would get just so far and fail with [...]

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NTFS Update

By On September 24, 2007 · 5 Comments · In Uncategorized

I did some more work on my NTFS issue on Friday. As previously mentioned, I was seeing NTFS filesystems with large levels of fragmentation even after drives were compressed.

The answer turns out to be quite simple; Windows doesn’t consolidate the free space blocks which accumulate as files are created and deleted. So, as a [...]

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