How to improve your Hyper-V lab performance


While looking into Windows IO/Mem performance on a rainy day (i.e. “no golf”), I noticed something that I do in my Hyper-V lab setup that kills performance.

I build new VMs all of the time. Usually they are for a simple test I build with MDT and I throw away the VM after a couple of weeks. I do it …

Microsoft files AppVirt Patent Application 20110191788

My partner at GridMasterTraining, Kevin Kaminski (t=@kkaminsk), today showed me a patent application that Microsoft recently submitted on Application Virtualization. Seem Strange? YEAH!

Notice: Although I do have a patent, I am not a patent attorney. Anything in this blog post should be considered at nothing more than “uneducated blather”.

Application Virtualization has been around for over 10 years, and …