One of the most controversial blog articles I wrote over the last couple of months definitely was the “Hyper-V crashes youtube movie“  post. The amount of response I had on this post and the follow-up “Will you fight or will you run” was amazing. Of course people where divided in two “camps”, either you liked the post or thought it [...]

As regular readers know I am a hardcore-punk fan, now on reading these posts(1, 2) by Microsoft a famous line from a legendary Dutch Hardcore band came to mind; “Will you fight or will you run?” I think Microsoft just expects their competitors to run or just join the “dark side”. Well it appears that this is not the route [...]

Most people heard about this by now, Technet and MSDN are running on Hyper-V. As Microsoft states, an enterprise ready solution. Both Technet and MSDN crashed this week, or should we say Hyper-V just doesn’t cut it. Check this Youtube  movie that clearly shows what happens when VMs are stressed: A professional associate of mine shared screen captures of a [...]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Train Signal, the post included a reduction coupon, YELLOWBRICKS. This coupon gives you 25% reduction on the Train Signal virtualization CBTs. Train Signal was so kind to also provide me with an additional coupon that gives you free shipping: All you need to do is head over to Train Signal and enter [...]

Almost a year ago I wrote an article on a CBT by Train Signal. I really enjoyed watching the CBT and that says a lot coming from someone that never used to be a CBT fan. In the end the ease of learning when and wherever you want is what convinced me. Another reason to use a CBT instead of [...]

Gabe from “Gabes Virtual World” is on a roll lately. He wrote three great articles which describe why he wouldn’t want to use Hyper-V in his Datacenter at this moment. I linked to his blog articles and grabbed a quote from each article that sets the tone in my opinion: Part 1 Hardware: In fact, I think you will come [...]

There has been a lot of talk on Hyper-V vs ESX performance. I can imagine that no one believes performance statements coming from either VMware or Microsoft. Kenon Owens from VMware posted a blog article on this topic. Yes Kenon is from VMware but the performance tests has been done by an independent company. The complete performance test has been [...]