Yung Chou and Keith Mayer welcome Greg Shields from Concentrated Technology
to the show as they discuss the differences between virtualization and cloud
computing and how the two complement each other as well as how you can take
the principles you learned from virtualization and apply them to the cloud.
In part 1 of their series, Greg compares the old way of deploying services
and shows us how to do it in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager.
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With Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets , the process to customize and automate
an infrastructure deployment to Windows Azure Infrastructure Services (IaaS)
becomes a relatively simple and manageable task. This article examines a
sample script which automatically...(read more )
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Windows Azure is a cloud OS. It is an infrastructure with computing,
networking, and storage capacities; a global service publishing and
distribution vehicle; and a security and system management framework capable
of bridging and extending on-premise resources with those deployed in the
cloud. With IaaS combined with the many features Windows Azure offers, the
opportunities for enterprise IT as well as small and medium businesses are
real and exciting to employ cloud as a delivery platform for LOB services
including media and phone apps. Windows Azure combined with Windows Server... (more)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Role introduces a new capability, Hyper-V
Replica, as a built-in replication mechanism at a virtual machine (VM) level.
Hyper-V Replica can asynchronously replicate a selected VM running at a
primary site to a designated replica site across LAN/WAN. Here both a primary
site and a replica site are Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts where a primary
site runs production or the so-called primary VMs, while a replica site is
standing by with replicated VMs off and to be brought online, should the
primary site experiences a planned or unplanned VM outage. Hyp... (more)
In Part 2 of their Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1,
Keith Mayer and Yung Chou lay out the foundation of your Private Cloud by
expanding on the features of Windows Server 2012. Tune in as they discuss
Scale-up and Scale-out scenarios, how to configure NIC teaming and failover
clustering.
[2:34] What are some of the benefits of Scale-Up and Scale-Out with Windows
Server 2012? [6:39] Can you describe a Scale-Up Scenario for us? [11:31]
DEMO: Scale-Up Scenario [20:52] DEMO: How to Configure Network Teaming
[29:09] DEMO: Failover Clustering & Cluster Aware Updati... (more)