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Windows Server 2012: SMB 2.2 is now SMB 3.0

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Last September at the Build Conference, Microsoft announced a new version of SMB (Server Message Block protocol), at this time the new Version was called SMB 2.2. Now some days ago at MMS 2012 (Microsoft Management Summit 2012) Microsoft announced the new name of the next generation server operating system, Windows Server 2012.

Now with this change and the Windows Server Team announced on their blog that the new name of the Server Message Block protocol will be SMB 3.0.

I think this makes totally sence, because the Team did a lot of work and this Version of SMB is a Major release.

Some of the new function of SMB 3.0 available in Windows Server 2012:

  • SMB for Server Applications
  • Active file sharing with SMB Scale Out
  • Scalable, fast, and efficient storage access with SMB Direct
  • Fast data transfers and network fault tolerance with SMB Multichannel
  • VSS for SMB file shares
  • Transparent Failover and node fault tolerance with SMB
  • Secure data transfer with SMB encryption
  • Faster access to documents over high latency networks with SMB Directory Leasing

You can get more Information about SMB 3.0 here:

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator Beta

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Microsoft released a beta of a new Solution Accelerator called “Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter”. The Converter helps you to migrate Virtual Machines from VMware vSphere to Microsoft Hyper-V.

About the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator

The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) provides a Microsoft-supported, freely available, standalone solution for converting VMware virtual machines (VMs) and VMware virtual disks (VMDKs) to Hyper-V virtual machines and Hyper-V virtual hard disks (VHDs). MVMC supports converting virtual machines using the following guest operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 with Service Pack 2
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows 7

The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter converts VMware virtual machines created with:

  • VMware vSphere 4.1
  • VMware vSphere 5.0

To virtual machines for:

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1

The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter:

  • Provides a quick, low-risk option for VMware customers to evaluate Hyper-V
  • Converts the virtual disks and the VMware VMs configuration, such as memory, virtual processor, and other machine settings from the source
  • Uninstalls the VMware tools on the source VM and installs the Hyper-V Integration Services as appropriate
  • Includes an easy-to-use wizard-driven GUI simplifying VM conversion
    Supports offline conversions of VMware virtual hard disks (VMDK) to a Hyper-V based virtual hard disk file format (VHD)
  • Includes a scriptable Command Line Interfaces (CLI) for performing machine conversion and offline disk conversion which integrates with datacenter automation workflows, such as those authored and executed within System Center Orchestrator. The command line can also be invoked through PowerShell.

 

Check it out on Microsoft Connect: https://connect.microsoft.com/site14/MVMC

Windows Server 8: CSV Cache Benchmark

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Windows Server 8

Some days ago I wrote a blog post about how you can enable CSV Cache on the new Windows Server 8 beta. Now a lot of people asked me about some benchmarks.

Here a test inside the Virtual Machine:

Without CSV Cache:

CSV Cache disabled

With CSV Cache enabled:

CSV Cache enabled

As you can see CSV Cache does work really well. In some cases you can get 4-5 times the read performance.

Microsoft Case Study: HCI Solutions

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Just a quick link to a Private Cloud Case Study done by Microsoft about one of our partners.

Microsoft Case Study: HCI Solutions

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-System-Center-2012/HCI-Solutions/Healthcare-Firm-Gains-More-Efficiency-Cuts-Costs-with-Private-Cloud-Environment/710000000186

 

d-on-d – Datacenter On Demand

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This week I could present some of the new features in Windows Server 8 Hyper-V on an event organized by Microsoft Switzerland in a very cool location. I am talking about D-ON-D (Datacenter on demand) which is run by Kybernetika.

D-ON-D offers you to rent servers and rooms for events, workshops, test project or demos.

If you want to know more about what D-ON-D offers check out the websites: