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Hyper-V Can Now Manage Amazon Storage Gateway
Handy for virtualisation junkies who enjoy mixing platforms: you can now use Hyper-V to manage the Amazon Storage Gateway, an on-premises and cloud appliance which lets you manage Amazon storage. Interesting. [Amazon Web Services Blog]
How To Back Up Hyper-V Virtual Machines
One of the handier features of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 is the ability to easily replicate virtual machines. Ben Armstrong’s virtualisation blog walks through the command line steps needed to do this if you’re not a GUI fan. [Ben Armstrong's Virtualization Guide]
Hyper-V Management Pack Improves Virtualisation Monitoring
A newly-released management pack for Hyper-V makes it easier to monitor performance of virtual instances of Windows Server 2012 running through Microsoft’s hypervisor. The free update incorporates support for new features added in the recent System Center 2012 SP1 release. [[System Center: Operations Manager Engineering Blog]
Calculating Virtualisation Licensing Savings
It seems obvious that virtualisation should offer the potential to save on licensing costs, but how does that actually work out in practice? The example of ING Bank provides some answers, and also demonstrates how private cloud deployments, virtualisation and improved disaster recovery often operate hand in hand.
