QoS in Windows Server 2012 (Part 1)
This article series will discuss Quality of Service (QoS) in Windows Server 2012. This first article in the series explains what QoS is and why it is useful.
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Understanding the Power of VMware vApps
In this article we'll look at what a vApp is and how the latest features can help you, in vSphere 5.
What’s New in Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering (Part 1)
In this article we'll take a look at some of the new and cool features that are included in the Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering Role.
Product Review: Free SolarWinds Tools
Although SolarWinds is best known for paid products such as Server & Application Monitor, they do offer some free tools as well. As such, I have written a mini review of three such utilities.
An introduction to Zerto
Disaster recovery is a key component in business sustainability. Learn about Zerto – a company that can help make it easier. This week, I had the good fortune to attend Virtualization Field Day 2. One of the companies presenting at this event was Zerto, a company which “…provides enterprise-class, virtual replication and BC/DR solutions for the data center and the cloud.” Zerto is new to the scene, established in 2009 with a first product launch taking place in August of 2011. In the market spectrum, the company is targeting their efforts at the Fortune 500 and medium enterprise space. The SMB space is not in their target market. Very recently, Zerto announced their 2.0 product, a cloud BC/DR platform which supports a number of different scenarios: Enterprise-based datacenters – primary tosecondary (Private Cloud BC/DR) Enterprise to Cloud-based DR/BC (DR-as-a-Service) Cloud provider data centers – primary to secondary (In-cloud BC/DR) The Zerto Virtual Replication tool has a number of features: 100% virtualization-aware protection – VMs, virtual disks, virtual networks are included. Software only solution. To be clear, this is not a hardware solution. This is a solution that implements DR/BC capability at the hypervisor layer. Replicate from anything to anything – this can allow an organization to save money and reduce the need to purchase new hardware (i.e. maybe place an out of warranty/lesser SAN at the DR site?) Support for enterprise private cloud and public cloud replication. Zerto takes a very flexible approach to
Symantec NetBackup Ends the Backup Window with 100 Times Faster Backups
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the latest edition of Symantec NetBackup 7.5 to help enterprise organizations overcome their data protection challenges. The current approach to backup modernization offered by other vendors is broken. Data growth has been exponential while backup performance gains thus far have been incremental. At the same time, backup teams are frustrated with missed backup windows and non-integrated solutions for physical and virtual backups, deduplication and snapshots. Ultimately, organizations face a situation where recovery, the end goal of why backups exist, is complex and unnecessarily expensive.
Symantec is delivering a new approach to data protection and introducing NetBackup 7.5 with new options, including NetBackup Accelerator to speed backups by up to 100 times while delivering "Instant Full Recovery" capability, NetBackup Replication Director to integrate NetApp® Snapshots™ with backup, and NetBackup Search to allow simple search and recovery of backup data and selective legal hold. Unlike other backup technology that relies on the IT team to integrate multiple disparate backup solutions, NetBackup is available as a single integrated appliance for the data center, remote office and virtual environments, providing customers with simplified deployment and operations.
Read more detailed blog post: Taking the Pain out of Backup: http://bit.ly/zjlDvs
Symantec is also announcing an expanded partnership with NetApp to integrate with NetBackup Replication Director, enabling customers to unify Snapshot and backup management, and remove the cost and risk associated with multiple backup and recovery tools. Replication Director enables organizations to reduce costs and complexity by recovering and managing backup and replicated Snapshots from a single, NetBackup management console.
"Just as 911 is the single point of contact for police, fire or medical emergency support, NetBackup is the single point of recovery for tape, disk, phy
Hyper-V on bare metal
It’s well known that, with a Windows Server 2008 R2 installation, you can simply add the Hyper-V role to your server, as long as your hardware supports the role. Once the Hyper-V role is added, you can host virtual machines n the server. However, you still have the full installation of Windows running from which you launched the role addition. This is overhead. You can install the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 product right onto the bare metal without the full Windows overhead. That said, going this route will require that you either manage Hyper-V from the command line or from a computer that has full installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7. This will allow you to run the GUI-based Hyper-V Manager so that you don’t have to deal with the command line.
15 Network Admin Apps for Windows Phone 7
In recent months, we’ve discovered apps that network administrators can use on the mobile iOS and Android platforms. Now we’ll discover some network admin apps for Windows Phone 7. They can help with network testing, monitoring, management, and can serve as a handy reference on the job.
Free Tool: XenDesktop VDI Calculator
Andre Leibovici has released a XenDesktop VDI calculator. Andre already build a VMware View VDI Calculator and has decided to take some of the same algorithms and apply them to Citrix XenDesktop. Some of the features include: Support for multi-core hosts Support for 32 bit display resolutions Support for vSphere 5.0 Support for 3D Support for calculation of Pooled and Dedicated desktops Support for MHz per VM Support for VM Swap files in local storage Support for Delivery Controller High Availability Support for IOPs calculation based on Workload IOPS, RAID Type and Read/Write ratio Support for calculation of virtual machine memory overhead Support for use of VM memory reservation Support for hypervisor memory overhead Support for VM memory overhead Support for Host calculation based on Desktop State when Not in Use (On, Suspend, Power Off) Support for Storage calculation based on Desktop State when Not in Use (On, Suspend, Power Off) Keep in mind the the hypervisor used in these calculations is VMware vSphere and the desktop delivery mechanism is Machine Creation Services (MCS). Andre is already working on another calculator that leverages Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) and the delivery mechanism. I'm hopeful that he can also provide a choice of using XenServer as the hypervisor of choice as well. Continue at source… Technorati : Citrix, VDI, XenDesktop Del.icio.us : Citrix, VDI, XenDesktop
Managing PCs using Windows Intune (Part 2) – Preparing Your Environment
This article explains how to prepare your environment by setting up Windows Intune and deploying the client software to the PCs you want to manage.