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Upcoming IT conferences

The summer vacation is over and now we need to prepare for the upcoming IT conferences which is really a lot. Here I’ll mention only few of them where I’ll be a speaker.

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The first and one of the best IT conferences in our region is KulenDayz in Osijek, where I have one day workshop (Transform your Datacenter) with my Hyper-V MVP fellows Luka Manojlovič and Tomica Kaniški on Friday, September 4th. On Saturday, September 5th I have presentation called Why Hyper-V? Because we can!

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The second IT conference is CXNCEL which will take place in Nova Gorica, Slovenia September 29.-30. where I will be speak about … try to guess Open-mouthed smile, Hyper-V of course.

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In October 20th is 10th DevArena organized by Ekobit where I’ll also be a speaker…

After DevArena conference we have few more conferences in October and November but more about that soon Winking smile

Cheers,

Romeo

Romeo Mlinar
August 12, 2015
Conferences, Microsoft, Microsoft MVP, MS Community, OnTheField
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Convert Physical machine to Virtual machine with MVMC 3.0

In this blog post I would like to show you how to convert Physical machine to Virtual machine with MVMC 3.0 which you can download from here. In this version of MVMC we can convert physical machine to virtual machine, other features are more or less the same.

New features in MVMC 3.0

The 3.0 release of MVMC adds the ability to convert a physical computer running Windows Server 2008 or above server operating systems or Windows Vista or above client operating systems to a virtual machine running on Hyper-V host.

Here you can read about standard features in MVMC.

Make sure you have the following pre-requisite on the computer on which you want to run MVMC and they are as follows:
1. Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 operating systems.

2. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and .NET Framework 4 if you install MVMC on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

3. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 if you install MVMC on Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, or Windows 8.

4. Visual C++® Redistributable for Visual Studio® 2012 Update 1

5. Enable the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) feature in Windows Server.

6. Enable Hyper-V on the destination host

NOTE: If you don’t enable features mentioned above will get this error:
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From the one side I have Physical machine with Windows Server 2012R2 installed on it, and from the other side I have Hyper-V host.

Here is a pictures guide how to convert ;)
Start MVMC and click Next
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On the next screen choose Physical machine conversion
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Enter the name or IP address and credentials of your physical machine under the Source then go ahead

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Click on Scan System to see system information
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Here we can see Volume Configuration

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On the next step we need to enter Virtual machine name, number of processors and Memory

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Here we need to fill Hyper-V host information

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Then we need to choose virtual machine and workspace location
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Then, Network Configuration
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At the end of the wizard we can see Summary and click on Finish to start conversion
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At the end of the conversion process you can see converted machine
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Enjoy in virtualization :)

Cheers,

Romeo

Romeo Mlinar
October 28, 2014
Administration, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft MVP, MS Community, Virtualization, Windows Server 2012 R2
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The circle is closed (Hyper-V evangelism – Spring 2014)

Three conferences in three weeks ;) In the last three weeks I was a speaker on three different conferences, from Sabis IT Meeting (Abu Dhabi, UAE), WinDays 14 (Umag, Croatia) to MS NetWork 4 (Banja Vrućica, BiH) and I can’t tell you where was better :).
The first IT conference was in Abu Dhabi (29. & 30. 3.2014.) where I held two days Hyper-V training with my good fellow Charbel Nemnom for Sabis administrators from Gulf Region. One great and awesome experience for me. Thank you Charbel!

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The second conference was the biggest Microsoft IT conference in our region, WinDays 14 from 7.-10.4.2014. I had one session, Hyper-V over SMB and one small part on a technology keynote where I mentioned few cool features in Windows Server 2012 R2 as well cool features in the Hyper-V role. Many thanks to great guys, Marin, Robert, Tipsi etc.

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The third conference was MS NetWork 4, the biggest Microsoft IT conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I had session Hyper-V from H to V. Great conference with great people and lots of Bosnian humor :) Thank you all, especially to Damir Dizdarević and Enis Šahinović for a great moments.

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For now it is enough conferences and let’s back to work.

Cheers,

Romeo

Romeo Mlinar
April 16, 2014
Conferences, Hyper-V, Microsoft, MS Community, Virtualization
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