Hi guys, It was very nice meeting you all yesterday at the re-birth of the Infrastructure & Management User Group. Below is the presentation for the main subject we talked about ? ?Windows 2008 R2 Overview?. We will continue next month, on December 17th with the subject ?Active Directory improvements in Windows 2008 R2?. In
Hyper-V & SQL consolidation at Microsoft IT
A new white paper has been published that compares the options to use multiple instances of SQL without Hyper-V with having multiple virtual machines with single instances of SQL Server. Not only it looks at the different pros and cons, but also provides interesting performance information. Here’s are the topics covered in this 26-page white
Can you open all Office 2007 apps in less then 0.5 seconds?? (no, you can’t)
Samsung techies linked 24 of the company’s 256GB SSD (Solid State Drives) together in a RAID configuration with the hopes of making the fast SSDs even faster. The system actually reaches a whooping transfer speeds of 2GBps (!!). Amazing how disks become the real bottlenecks of today’s computers. Check out this video, you don?t see
Windows 2008 R2 NLB & Failover Clustering
Check out this nice list of new clustering features just around the corner: New Failover Clustering features in R2: Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) – A distributed access file system optimized for Hyper-V allowing virtual machines and their disk resources to reside be on any cluster node Live Migration – Move virtual machines between different physical
Controlling Processor Resources in Hyper-V Guests
Hyper-V by default provides all virtual machines equal priority and access to resources. You may have situations where you want to guarantee that a virtual machine has a specific amount of processing power available at all times, that you want to be sure that the virtual machine can never consume more than a specific percentage
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.2 RTM Version Now Available!
MAP is a scalable and agent-less assessment platform designed to make it easier for you to adopt the latest Microsoft technologies. In this version, MAP has expanded its assessment capabilities to include SQL Server 2008, Forefront/NAP, and Microsoft Online Services migration, as well as providing a Power Savings assessment to help you "go green." In
Running SQL Server in Hyper-V Environment: Best Practices and Recommendations
Based on hypervisor technology, the Hyper-V™ virtualization feature in the Windows Server® 2008 operating system is a thin layer of software between the hardware and the operating system that allows multiple operating systems to run, unmodified, on a host computer at the same time. Hyper-V is a powerful virtualization technology that can be used by
SCOM 2007 On-Demand Webcasts
How Microsoft IT Implements System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 300) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032322478&CountryCode=US Assure the Availability and Performance of Your SharePoint Environments (Level 300) http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032368298&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 300) http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032348673&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200) http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032341228&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level
SCOM 2007 Useful Links
Main Downloads page (catalog, documentation) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498232.aspx Operations Manager Product Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam SystemCenterForum.org http://www.systemcenterforum.org System Center Content Search (Vista gadget) http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=49e26ad0-113d-4f3d-a711-57f6530c75d9 System Center Operations Manager Blog Search: http://search.live.com/macros/microsoft_user_assistance/sc_operations_manager_blogs Event Flow Diagram http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2007/10/30/event-alerts-perf-data-flow-in-opsmgr-2007.aspx DWDATARP.exe (For setting Data Retention policies in the Warehouse) http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/05/14/data-warehouse-data-retention-policy-dwdatarp-exe.aspx End-To-End Task test: http://www.systemcenterforum.org/testing-end-to-end-notification-in-opsmgr-or-essentials-2007-mp/ Targeting Best Practices Poster: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/a/7/fa73e146-ab8a-4002-9311-bfe69a570d28/BestPractices_Rule_Monitor_REV_110607.pdf Best practices to use
Microsoft’s Virtualization Launch – Key Takeaways
I had the opportunity today (16.9.08) to participate in Microsoft?s getVIRTUALnow event, and to present the session “Physical and Virtual Server Management” I presented my take on data center management, which involves automating management tasks in response to system\application states. It was impressive to see the number of vendors that were present in the event. Microsoft
