“Resource Metering” is a brand new feature in Hyper-V 3.0, included with Windows Server 2012. It allows Hyper-V administrators to track CPU usage, RAM and the network utilization of VMs working on a host. Since more companies are providing users with an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) plans, Hyper-V’s resource metering may be helpful for analyzing VM impact on a system and for calculating chargebacks to VM’s end-users accordingly.

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The physical (and mental!) process of migrating from legacy to virtual can be sometimes a difficult job for admin because the virtual sphere terms and features are sometimes different from what was learned earlier. For those of you who are learning about the many aspects of virtualization and Hyper-V, we will continue to publish helpful posts that explain various Hyper-V features.

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We released our first technical poster — Veeam Backup & Replication v7 for Hyper-V: Overview — almost a year ago. It is now time to upgrade that poster with v8 features and enhancements for Hyper-V environments.

This new poster is more than just a slight update. It’s completely different material, even though you may see a few similarities at first glance.

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Did you have a chance to print and hang either of our free Veeam posters? If not, you can still get both of these useful posters here: Veeam Backup & Replication v7 for Hyper-V and Veeam Backup & Replication v8 for VMware. Today, we have another poster for you called: 47 restore scenarios from Veeam Backup & Replication v8.

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It’s been a while since we released the A0 poster: Veeam Backup & Replication v7 for Hyper-V. Since that time, we celebrated at our inaugural VeeamON 2014, released Veeam Availability Suite v8 and started sending out our Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE beta.

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I bet you’ve heard a lot about virtualization. No matter where you work, I’m sure you’d also like to enjoy the benefits of a virtualized environment and especially the benefits of Hyper-V virtualization. If you’ve already decided to find a how-to guide for converting your physical computer into a Hyper-V virtual computer (P2V), just keep reading and I’ll tell you how you can easily accomplish this in just minutes!

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Certification in a specific IT area is a big deal. New technologies arrive every single day, companies develop new software built on those technologies and users try to figure out how everything works. Certification is a great way to show that you are knowledgeable.

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VeeamON 2014 –Wow! Roundup of day #3!

For those who missed it, roundup of the day #1, roundup of a 2nd day

We’re still here, in amazing Las Vegas, and just came from the closing keynote of the first ever VeeamON. Just in case you were unable to join us today, I wanted to take a minute to tell you about day #3 with Veeam!

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Regardless of how you view the 2012 update, it’s true that added functionality might be not used by you at 100%. Mike Resseler, MVP and Veeam Product Strategy Specialist, discusses the capacity of Windows Server 2012 features and concludes from his personal experience that many admins don’t realize how much power they have in their hands.

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Virtualization is famous not just because of easier management of backup and restore procedures compared to those for physical systems. It has other advantages and one of them is definitely high availability (HA) of VMs. The term means that VM should be available regardless of the availability that the physical host it is running at. There are some specific methods for ensuring HA of the VM. Specifically, I’d like to talk today about failover clustering, which is Microsoft’s native feature for Windows Server with a Hyper-V role and MS Windows’ Hyper-V Server. Read more