Here are all the parts of the series for Windows Server 2012 virtualization.

1. The Hyper-V Primer – 20+ Days of Server Virtualization
2. You Want to Hot-Add What?! – 20+ Days of Server Virtualization
3. Virtual Memory Management: Dynamic Memory-Much Different Than Memory Over Commit – Become a Virtualization Expert
4. Two Posts for Part 3:
   1. Virtual Memory Management: Dynamic Memory-Much Different Than Memory Over Commit – Become a Virtualization Expert
   2. Monitoring Dynamic Memory in Windows Server Hyper-V 2012….
5. Hyper-V “Datastores” – Wait we dont need no stinkin’ datastores!
6. Virtualization Storage–Definitions (20+ Days of Server Virtualization – Part 5 of 20)
7. Part 6 In tow Parts
   1. Hyper-V Live Part 1 of 2 Live Add Memory & Live Snapshot Merge
   2. Hyper-V Live Part 2 of 2 Live Storage Migration, Multiple Live Migrations and Live Cluster Node Evacuations
8. Speaking iSCSI with Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V – Become a Virtualization Expert in 20 Days! ( Part 7 of 20 )
9. Step-by-Step: Storage Live Migration ( Part 8 of 20)
10. . Virtualization Experts Series – Virtual Networking in Hyper-V
11. . Server Virtualization Series: Networking – NIC Teaming
12. . Step by Step: High Availability: Live Migration (Part 12 of 20)
13. . 20 Days of Server Virtualization- Your Hyper-V Hosts and Clustering an Availability Story (Part 13 of 20)
14. . Virtual Machine Guest Clustering with Windows Server 2012 – Become a Virtualization Expert in 20 Days! ( Part 14 of 20 )
15. . Hyper-V Replica Broker
16. . Performance Management: Monitoring CPU Resources….
17. . Server Virtualization Series: Performance Management – Memory (Part 18 of 20)
18. . Virtualization Experts Series – Virtualization From A Single Pane of Glass – System Center VMM – An Overview
19. . Virtualization Storage–SMB (20+ Days of Server Virtualization)

Chris Avis released the latest post in our series and this time he takes on performance monitoring in Hyper-V environments.  Great step by step instructions for inspecting your environment with tools already in the toolbox:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/chrisavis/archive/2013/03/25/performance-management-monitoring-cpu-resources.aspx

Keith Mayer tackles the challenge of locating VHDs, especially good for those who inherit virtual environments from previous admins, or just for a quick scan to see what all is out on the storage.  This post is complete with PowerShell cmdlets and scripts for making the job that much easier!

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/03/11/dude-where-s-my-vhds-more-powershell-tricks-with-hyper-v.aspx

I’ve been out on the road delivering events and writing my first Windows 8 app, so today I am catching up on the blog series underway with our team.  Here are the articles from last week concerning high availability:

Brian Lewis started off last week with step by step instructions for high availability in Hyper-V:

http://mythoughtsonit.com/2013/03/step-by-step-high-availability-live-migration-part-12-of-20/

Matthew Hester continued the theme with a focus on hosts and clusters:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/matthewms/archive/2013/03/20/20-days-of-server-virtualization-your-hyper-v-hosts-and-clustering-an-availability-story-part-13-of-20.aspx

Keith Mayer gives step by step details for guest clustering:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/03/21/virtual-machine-guest-clustering-with-windows-server-2012-become-a-virtualization-expert-in-20-days-part-14-of-20.aspx

And Yung Chou provided step by step video instructions for setting up Hyper-V replica:

http://aka.ms/ReplicaBroker

Lots of great reading and watching folks, enjoy!

To build upon my recent post for virtualization networking, Harold Wong, explains the details behind NIC Teaming, as well as some PowerShell cmdlets on the subject.  Take a look here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/haroldwong/archive/2013/03/15/server-virtualization-series-networking-nic-teaming-part-10-of-20-by-harold-wong.aspx

Virtualization Experts Series continues with Live Storage Migration explained by Brian Lewis.  This step by step article shows the how, why, and what of moving virtual machine disks from one physical location to another, and the Powershell command is thrown in as well for you scripters out there.  Take a look:

http://mythoughtsonit.com/2013/03/step-by-step-storage-live-migration-part-8-of-20/

It seems that Yung Chou not only helps mentor IT Pros around the world, but 5th graders too?  There is no stopping this guy.  I bet his kids do their homework on Azure VMs as well!  Great stuff take a look:

Our blog series on virtualization has gotten off to a good start.  For today’s article we discuss network virtualization in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.  For the basics, virtual machines need to be presented with a network port in order to gain access to the physical network.  Since the host has a small number of physical network adapters the hypervisor(Hyper-V) needs to split up the network traffic on to virtual network switches.  These virtual switches contain virtual ports, and the virtual ports show up in each virtual machine for which they are assigned as a traditional network adapter.  The diagram below Read more

Here’s a little snippet from the great article Keith Mayer just published in the series:

“In this article, we’ll walk through the process of connecting Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 to common iSCSI storage arrays.  Because most of my IT Pro friends are running Hyper-V either on Windows Server 2012 Server Core or Hyper-V Server 2012, both options without a local console GUI, I’ll be providing my examples below in PowerShell.   …   Now Let’s Get “Connected’ … After starting the MSiSCSI service, we can connect from our Hyper-V host to the iSCSI target on the storage array with the following PowerShell command line:

New-IscsiTargetPortal –TargetPortalAddress <IP_Address or FQDN of storage array>

$target = Get-IscsiTarget

Connect-IscsiTarget –NodeAddress $target.NodeAddress“  Read more here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/03/12/speaking-iscsi-with-windows-server-2012-and-hyper-v.aspx