I first heard about NUMA (nonuniform memory access) when watching the Mark Russinovich video I posted about. I admit I’d not heard about it before but I was interested and so did a little more research into it. A quick search later using Live Search I’d come across the Wikipedia entry which gave quite a…
Tag: Windows Server 2008
Hyper-V feature comparison with other Virtualisation offerings
I had a question today at a Virtualisation event about a feature by feature comparison of Hyper-V and other virtualisation offerings. I had a quick search around and came across this 3rd party appraisal of all the different products out there on the market. Now although this may or may not be completely accurate it…
IT Management from the Desktop to the Datacenter
One of things we are currently talking to our customers and partners about is the concept of having end-to-end management of IT products and solutions from desktop all the way to the datacenter servers and all the infrastructure in between. New products in System Center including Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, Configuration Manager and Data…
Windows Server 2008 lineup and introducing Hyper-V, it’s "cheap as chips"
Level Set: What is Virtualization? I’m going to use a nice paragraph from a PC Advisor article I found: Virtualisation enables one physical server to host several operating systems, which can be assigned to run certain applications. It means one physical server can be worked harder, often reducing the need for more server hardware, which…
Core Infrastructure Optimisation Training
My Core IO partner in crime – Matt McPhirt – has been beavering away preparing these hot potatoes of events on Core Infrastructure Optimisation. This particular training has a flavour of Server 2008 about it including System Center and Virtual Server. Here’s the lowdown from the horse’s mouth: Well, as I’m sure you are aware,…
Windows Server 2008 MCPs : Get your transition on!
Windows Server 2008 is now scheduled for release to manufacturing in the first quarter of 2008 instead of the end of 2007. Learn more. As a result, transition exams 70-648 and 70-649 are scheduled for release on October 29, 2007. If you registered before June 30, 2007 for a 40% savings voucher for these exams,…
Windows Server 2008 Podcast
Powershell is an object orientated scripting language which is extensible and is the foundation admin tool for Exchange Server 2007 and System Center Operations Manager 2007. One of our MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) talks about Windows Server 2008 in particular powershell and virtualisation on this Technet radio spot. WMA | MP3 High | MP3 Low (25…
Windows Server 2008 London Clinics
QA-IQ, one of our training partners is running a Windows Server 2008 week of events starting in July. So, what’s on the menu? Clinic 1: Windows Server 2008 Branch Office Management Clinic 2: Windows Server 2008 Server Management Clinic 3: Windows Server 2008 Security Control Clinic 4: Windows Server 2008 Centralized Application Access Clinic 5:…