* Windows Activation: Troubleshooting and Monitoring the KMS. Source: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys/archive/2009/04/08/windows-activation-troubleshooting-and-monitoring-the-kms.aspx As I’ve described in the previous two installments, the KMS is a pretty simple and straight-forward service. When you think about, this makes sense because the only thing that it does is activate clients. So how do you track what the KMS is doing and…
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Getting started with SCOM 2012
* Deploying OpsMgr 2012 – a quick-start guide from Kevin Holman’s System Center Blog * Install Operations Manager 2012 Beta
Private Cloud lab setup guide 3
This is the step-by-step guide for adding a free Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 or a paid Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core to the Hyper-V cluster. – On NODE1, shrink the existing drive so that we have the second partition to host the Hyper-V Server. To differentiate with the future Hyper-V Server on the…
Private Cloud lab setup guide 2
This is the version 2 of the Private Cloud lab step-by-step setup guide. Instead of using a single physical machine for DC+Storage+Management roles, the VMs are used instead for easy transfer to another hardware. Note: the guide is to illustrate the concepts only so it may not follow the best practices & guidance. * 03…
Hyper-V Architecture and Feature Overview
Hyper-VArchitecture diagram Full article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd722833(v=BTS.10).aspx * Hyper-V non-Windows OS support: Linux Distributions (VMs configured with 1, 2 or 4 virtual processor). Source: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-supported-guest-os.aspx — SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 3 (x86 Edition or x64 Edition)– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86 Edition or x64 Edition)– Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2, 5.3…
COOL: "Windows Server 8” sneak preview
Windows Server 8 virtual machines will help you build private clouds of greater scale by supporting (at least…) 16 virtual processors fully loaded with business critical workloads like SQL Server. Then we show you how you can deliver improved fault tolerance and flexibility, without the added tax or complexity of additional hardware, tools and software…
Hyper-V performance in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
* Lab Reports: Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Hyper-V R2 SP1 Performance Analysis: can support 20,000 simulated Exchange 2010 users * Lab Reports: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V R2 SP1 Performance Analysis: can support 80,000 brokerage customers * Lab Reports: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Hyper-V R2 SP1 Performance Analysis : can support more than…
Monitoring non-domain servers using SCOM
The below article is obtained from: http://pkjayan.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/agent-managed-non-trusted-servers-without-gateway/. The text in green color is my own comment. The scenario is not using any gateway server. Preparation: – make sure the wkg-srv has the domain suffix, that means FQDN is wkg-srv.mycompany.com.vn. also a DNS entry for wkg-srv is needed Monitoring non-trusted servers using SCOM-Step by step In…
AD RMS overview
AD RMS is a Windows Server feature that can help prevent confidential information (Outlook emails, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, XPS documents) from being distributed illegally to the outside world. We can have the users manually turn on protection before sharing these information internally, or we can have these information automatically protected when sending emails internally or when puting…
Private Cloud update: Hear what NetApp and Cisco are Saying After Joining the Hyper-V Fast Track Program
As we announced yesterday we are proud to have NetApp and Cisco participating in the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program and delivering pre-validated private cloud solutions for customers. The new NetApp Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track with Cisco builds upon the reference architecture and layers on the additional capabilities inherent in the NetApp and Cisco infrastructure….