Welcome to Brien M. Posey's Section

Brien Posey is an MCSE and has won the Microsoft MVP award for the last two years. Brien has written who over 3,000 technical articles and written or contributed material to 27 books.

In addition to his technical writing, Brien is the co-founder of Relevant Technologies and also serves the IT community through his own Web site at www.brienposey.com

Prior to being a freelance author, Brien served as CIO for a chain of hospitals. He was also previously in charge of IT security for Fort Knox.

Brien M. Posey's Latest Contributions

Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V (Part 1): Date - Jun 04, 2009; Section - Microsoft Hyper-V Articles / Installation and Deployment; Options for disaster recovery within a Hyper-V environment.
Hyper-V and Legacy Applications (Part 5): Date - May 07, 2009; Section - Microsoft Hyper-V Articles / General; Completing the Windows NT deployment process by installing a service pack and connecting Windows NT to the network.
Hyper-V and Legacy Applications (Part 4): Date - Apr 23, 2009; Section - Microsoft Hyper-V Articles / General; Using Hyper-V with legacy applications by completing the legacy operating system installation.
Hyper-V and Legacy Applications (Part 3): Date - Apr 07, 2009; Section - Microsoft Hyper-V Articles / General; Virtualizing legacy applications by continuing the process of installing Windows NT in a Hyper-V environment.
Hyper-V and Legacy Applications (Part 2): Date - Mar 19, 2009; Section - Microsoft Hyper-V Articles / General; How to install Windows NT in a virtual server.
Hyper-V and Legacy Applications (Part 1): Date - Feb 12, 2009; Section - Microsoft Hyper-V Articles / General; Why virtualizing may not be the best option when it comes to legacy servers.
Determining Guest OS Placement (Part 2): Date - Jan 21, 2009; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Virtualization Articles; Performance thresholds and why it is important to address an organization’s business needs up front.
Determining Guest OS Placement (Part 1): Date - Dec 09, 2008; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Virtualization Articles; Why virtual server placement is something of an art form, and how to go about matching virtual server resource requirements with the physical resources that are available.
Resource Allocation in Hyper-V (Part 4): Date - Nov 19, 2008; Section - Microsoft Hyper-V Articles / Load Balancing & High Availability; This article concludes my series on resource allocation for virtual machines by talking about memory and hard disk allocation.
Resource Allocation in Hyper-V (Part 3): Date - Oct 29, 2008; Section - Microsoft Hyper-V Articles / Load Balancing & High Availability; This article continues the resource allocation series by talking more about CPU allocation.
Resource Allocation in Hyper-V (Part 2): Date - Jul 02, 2008; Section - Microsoft Hyper-V Articles / Load Balancing & High Availability; This article continues the series on resource allocation for virtual machines by examining CPU utilization, and talking about some of the challenges associated with obtaining accurate Performance Monitor readings in a virtual server environment.
Resource Allocation in Hyper-V (Part 1): Date - Jun 02, 2008; Section - Microsoft Hyper-V Articles / Load Balancing & High Availability; Proper resource allocation is critical to effectively hosting virtual machines. This article series explains how it is done.