Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere 5.1

Microsoft released some white papers that are being send to the partners and customers, who are interested in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. These technical papers are giving competitive advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.1.

The papers give insight into 4 investments areas;
– Scalability, Performance & Density
– Secure Multitenancy
– Flexible Infrastructure
– High Availability & Resiliency Across each of these areas

With features such as Hyper-V Replica, cluster sizes of up to 64 nodes and 8,000 virtual machines, Storage and Shared-Nothing Live Migration, the Hyper-V Extensible Switch, Network Virtualization, and powerful guest clustering capabilities, it’s clear to see that Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V offers the most comprehensive virtualization platform for the next generation of cloud-optimized infrastructures.

“WS 2012 White Paper Hyper-V” can be found here

“Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.1” can be found here 

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Part1, Part2, Part3 and Part4

SCOM 2007R2 QuickTip: Change Action Account

Before migrating the SCOM 2007R2 environment of a customer of mine, I wanted to correct the Action Account that was used by the Gatewayserver. Microsoft has a PowerShell script that allows you to set the action account on groups of computers.

it’s called “SC Ops Mgr 2007 Resource Kit – Action Account Tool” http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14175

set-action.ps1 “domain\accountname”

For this environment it took 20 minutes for the script to run;

Computer: ‘gatewayserver.fqdn’ …changing action account

From: ‘domain\old_accountname’

To  : ‘domain\accountname’