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Vital Signs for Hyper-V Server (part 2)
May 19th
After my previous blog post announcing Vital Signs for Hyper-V server by Savision, I received some additional information (including an opportunity for MVP’s to request an NFR license).
Vital Signs for Hyper-V provides a real-time performance monitoring and troubleshooting capability for Windows Hyper-V Server. The agentless dashboard deploys in minutes and allows System Administrators to immediately see dozens of key performance graphs and configuration for Hyper-V Host (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network) and Virtual Guest.
Stop Waiting, Start Fixing Dynamic Hyper-V Problems
Stop waiting up to 15 minutes for the next polling cycle or remoting into a machine to see its current performance. Get everything you need to troubleshoot every alert or incident in seconds.
One Dashboard, Over 100 Real-time Metrics
Immediately collect all the foundational troubleshooting information to zero in on the root cause faster to ensure hyper-v fabric is functioning well.
Snapshots, Storage, and V-Systems
Instantly track snapshots paths, storage configuration and storage throughput in real-time. Drill into the Virtual Guest OS to understand its performance characteristics. Troubleshoot the most difficult performance problems faster.
Eliminate Capacity Guesswork
Automatically calibrate and quickly tune performance in your environment to understand virtual guest to hyper-v host usage.
Real-time for Microsoft’s Private Cloud (System Center + Hyper-V)
See SCOM Alerts and SCSM incidents, problems and changes, correlated and placed directly to the real-time performance charts.
If you have any additional questions or would like access to our internet-accessible demo environment, please contact: Dan Merritts @ dan.merritts@savision.com; +1-415-480-0366.
Learn more at: http://www.savision.com/hyper-v
For MVP’s:
Contact Dan Merritts for your MVP NFR License Key: dan.merritts@savision.com; +1-415-480-0366.
System Center Team is accepting applications for evaluations
May 16th
The System Center team is pleased to announce the Community Evaluation Program. The program is designed to provide IT professionals a structured approach to evaluating System Center and Forefront products before their final release. Members of this program are able to evaluate early versions of products with guidance from the product team and by sharing of experiences and best practices among a community of peers.
Multiple programs are now open and accepting applications including:
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Configuration Manager
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Forefront Identity Manager
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Operations Manager
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Orchestrator
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Virtual Machine Manager
To apply and for more information about the programs, please visit:
https://connect.microsoft.com/site1211
Microsoft Virtualization Jump Start Training Videos available
Apr 28th
I blogged about the webcast earlier. Corey Hines and Simon Perriman did a great job bringing awareness of Microsoft Virtualization (certainly not only Hyper-V) among VMware admins.
I strongly recommend this series if you want to have the best possible overview of this fantastic platform.
Microsoft Learning hosted another new and exclusive Jump Start virtual training event – Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals. We are thrilled to announce availability of the HD-quality video recordings – FREE – on TechNet Edge and soon coming to MS Showcase, the Zune Marketplace, iTunes! Additionally, every module will be made available (with assessment questions) on the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) in the next few weeks.
SCVMM 2012 – Setting Up Run As Accounts & Profiles
Apr 13th
As a preparation for my upcoming posts about Bare Metal Deployment of physical servers and another one on Cluster Creation with VMM 2012, I will first write a couple of introductory blogs.
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Setting Up Run As Accounts and Run As Profiles
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Out of Band Management
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Adding HP iLO as an OOB Management Protocol
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Creating Server Hardware Profiles
The main reason for creating Run As Accounts and Run As Profiles is to provide a container for a set of stored credentials. It is very convenient to configure this once in a central location and then easily use it in all sorts of configuration tasks or when delegating certain tasks to delegated admins.
What different categories of Run As Accounts are available?
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Profile Accounts – can be used for operating system profiles, application profiles, SQL Server profiles and host profiles
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Storage Device Account – for configuring the credentials of a storage array or storage management server
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BMC Account – for configuring a Base Management Controller such as HP iLO or Dell DRAC
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Host Computer Account – for configuring a virtualization host (Hyper-V, XenServer, VMware)
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Network Device Account – for configuring a network load balancer
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External Account – for access to an external computer of some other kind
Microsoft Virtual Academy
Apr 4th
I took all four available courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy. Quite a nice crash course about private and public cloud based on Microsoft technology. It took me a few hours to reach a shared first place with 372 points completing all four assessments. I’m looking forward to more content. There are still a few medals to earn …
System Center Roadmap 2011
Mar 29th
During Microsoft Management Summit we were shown the roadmap for System Center 2012. As you can see for most products there is or will be a beta by mid 2011. During the second half of 2011 all System Center 2012 members will RTM.
I cannot but conclude that Microsoft is well up-to-speed and will deliver on their promises.
Creating a Cloud in 90 seconds with VMM 2012
Mar 25th
In this video Kenon Owens is interviewed by Symon Perriman, talking about creating a Private Cloud with Virtual Machine Manager in less than 90 seconds! Symon is the guy with the stop-watch!
Go and see this cool video (contains a demo towards the end):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/mms-90-seconds-to-the-cloud-virtual-machine-manager-2012-beta-with-kenon-owens
Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals
Mar 25th
Microsoft Virtualization for VMWare Professionals – Free Online Classes – March 29-31
By Elden Christensen
Just one week after Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (MMS), Microsoft Learning will be hosting an exclusive three-day Jump Start class specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology pros. Registration for “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals” is open now and will be delivered as a FREE online class on March 29-31, 2010 from 10:00am-4:00pm PDT.
On March 29th we will spend 2 hours focusing on Microsoft’s high-availability solutions for Virtualization using Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering. Learn about cluster planning, deployment, management, System Center integration and disaster recovery using multi-site clustering.
What’s New in Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1
Mar 24th
Okay, more Virtual Machine Manager News! SP1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is OUT!
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM 2008) is a comprehensive management solution for managing virtualized infrastructure running on Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, Virtual Server 2005 R2 and VMware ESX through Virtual Center. With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, significant feature improvements were made to Hyper-V—the underlying hypervisor platform.
VMM 2008 R2 SP1 – the next version of VMM – has been released. VMM 2008 R2 SP1 leverages the new platform enhancements and extends the feature set of VMM 2008 R2. This overview highlights the most important new and significantly enhanced features in VMM 2008 R2 SP1:
Support for new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
- Dynamic Memory: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V supports Dynamic Memory enabling customers to better utilize the memory resources of a Hyper-V host. VMM 2008 R2 SP1 allows administrators to create and deploy Virtual Machines onto Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V hosts and will report on the memory currently in use for these VMs where Dynamic Memory is enabled. Using Dynamic Memory for supported VMs allows for more efficient utilization of memory, with consistent performance, and higher consolidation ratios.
- Microsoft RemoteFX: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 introduces a new set of end user experience enhancements with Microsoft RemoteFX. VMM 2008 R2 SP1 allows administrators to create and deploy Virtual Machines with RemoteFX enabled to qualified Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V hosts. This enables a rich, local-like desktop environment over the network.
Download Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 beta spotted on TechNet Downloads
Mar 17th
Microsoft seems to make the beta of System Center VMM 2012 available on Technet very soon. I just checked this page and saw a (still broken) link to the download of what we formerly referred to as Virtual Machine Manager vNext:
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