This was Part 2 of a two part series on comparing VMware and Microsoft virtualization/Cloud offerings. Part 1 was focused on the hypervisor and how Hyper-V and ESXi compare. I had a schedule conflict with part 1, so I didn't attend it. This is part 2, focusing on the private cloud...
This session covered the process of building a Windows 8 image. There are a variety of ways to build your image, which could range from custom built scripts to using MS provided tools. The big takeaway from this session was to use MDT 2012 Update 1 (or later) to create...
Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 brings a lot of new networking features to the table. This was a deep dive session on what's new in R2, how MS's network virtualization works, and how it benefits customers. While Server 2012 brought huge gains to the network stack, R2 rounds out...
This session was presented by Mark Simos, Aaron Margosis from Microsoft. Pass the hash (PtH) is an extremely common method that companies become owned by the bad guys. This session covered what PtH is, how it works, and some mitigation techniques. Microsoft recently released an extensive whitepaper on mitigating PtH...
This session was by Mark Minasi, who is one of the must hear TechEd speakers. Highly entertaining and highly informative. If you ever come to TechEd, you must attend one of his sessions. This session was focused on Windows 8, and going beyond the arguably ugly skin and going under...
This session covers how to develop on-prem IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) using the Azure pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 and VMM 2012 R2. The session was more developer oriented than I thought from the description, so I ended up leaving a bit early since I'm not a developer....
Starting off Day 3 of TechEd 2013 is a session on Windows Server 2012 R2 networking for cloud services. He covers what's new in Windows Server 2012 R2 IPAM (and touching on DNS and DHCP). Windows Server 2012 shipped with major new features, and R2 builds on those features and better integrates...
This session was a firehose of information on the design considerations when building your private cloud based on Server 2012 R2. There are ton of new features in WS2012 and R2, so this was a high level roadmap on how to figure out what you want to implement. Bottom line...
This session was mostly a demo of VMM 2012, where the speaker also covered some enhancements in the upcoming R2 release. Many of the Hyper-V 2012 R2 features have already been covered in other sessions, so there wasn't a lot of new content. But he did a good walk through...
This session focused on how to manage a virtualized SQL workload with system center. By using VMM, Operations Manager, and other SC components, you can automate, monitor, and easily deploy new SQL instances in a cookie cutter manner. This session applies to you whether you use VMware or Hyper-V hypervisors....