Windows Deployment Services System Center Operations Manager The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated guides for deployment and operations: Windows Deployment Services and System Center Operations Manager. These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server® 2008 R2 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, outline the critical [...]
Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides—Release Announcement Windows Server Virtualization System Center Virtual Machine Manager The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated virtualization guides: Windows Server Virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server® 2008 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine [...]
The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released a new guide: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization. This guide outlines the critical infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation of Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V). The reader is guided through the four-step process of designing components, layout, and connectivity in a logical, sequential order. [...]
Enhanced application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms Delivers monitoring across Windows, Linux and Unix servers-all through a single console Extends end to end monitoring of distributed applications to any workload running on Windows, Unix and Linux platforms Maximize availability of virtual workloads with integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Improved management of [...]
System Center Ops Manager management pack for Hyper-V A quick note that a beta of the Hyper-V management pack for System Center Operations Manager (2007, 2007 R2) is available. In combination with SCVMM (for advanced monitoring of VMs across your Hyper-V, ESX and Virtual Server environments), this SCOM management pack enables health/perf monitoring of the [...]
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available as a public beta. This is the first release of SCVMM to support Windows Server 2008 R2. Key new features in R2 Live Migration SCVMM can now trigger live and quick migration of virtual machines on R2 clusters. Clustered Shared Volumes (CSV) SCVMM can now [...]
