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Greetings for everyone for the New Year. This is a great year for Microsoft System Center product family. As for the Virtualization point of view this would be a significant year around VM management. I do believe lot of customers will move ahead and adopt the hybrid HYPER VISOR solution. SCVMM 2012...
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Recently enough Microsoft released the latest version of it’s assessment and Planning toolkit’s latest version (6.5) Fro those who don’t know MAPS it’s a software which available freely for you to do assessment prior getting your hands certain projects. This tool is really useful...
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It’s been a weeks’ time since the Microsoft BUILD conference and the Internet is still buzzing with talk of Windows Server 8 . The next generation of Microsoft’s general purpose server operating system promises to be a revamped virtualization platform that introduces the world to Microsoft’s latest hypervisor...
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I was testing SCVMM with few host machines located in Domain environment and also in workgroup environment. After applying latest updates to the SCVMM I found out the host computers in the workgroup environment giving an error saying unable to update the SCVMM agent installed in those servers. Exact...
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Yesterday during monthly ITPro forum in Sri Lanka I’ve discuss the above mention topic. When Virtualization becomes commodity model in IT industry next concern would be security as usual During this presentation I’ve discuss about the importance of properly implementing the HYPER-V server...
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Virtualization has been IT industry hot topic and it will be as it is until next few years. Good news is most of the fortune companies already adopted into it and others are following it. Along with every solution there will be new problems and concerns and Virtualization is no difference over there...
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One of my colleague brought a question for me which was interesting to consider and do some solution lookup. His requirement is to assign virtual pc’s to selected users and and only allow them to see the necassary virtual pc’s assigned to them. Of course this seems to be an easy task under...
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I have been missing the blogging opportunity for few weeks. Apart from that very less interesting stories existed in the virtualization world for me :) Anyway talking about the VDI technology Microsoft has been very keen and see a strong future in that. When it comes to VDI first thing it comes to our...
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When it comes to consolidating servers one key concern is the hardware capability to handle that workload simultaneously. CPU is not an big issues since we’re having more rough horsepower on those. Disk speed and network speed has been key constraint areas. I’ve been discussing about using...
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Despite of the number of people in a company business perspective SMB and Enterprise have similar requirements request from the Information Technology. They all expect the service continuity, anywhere access and low cost! During this time period every company dream is to get maximum out of the IT investment...
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Is your company ever facing the challenge of effectively managing the servers and infrastructure growth? Is server virtualization been shown to you as the only resolution to overcome the problem along with the Green IT concept? Sadly in Sri Lanka Green IT concept is not widely being adopted even though...
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This is a another cool feature in virtualization I wanted to try out and see some significant advantages in production environment. In this scenario instead of assigning a virtual hard disk file a to a guest operating system we’re allowing it to access the raw disk in a SAN directly or it can be...
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This has been long awaited expectation by many administrators. Many administrators kept away from HYPER-V saying no compatibility with Open Source Operating systems despite Microsoft support for Suse Enterprise OS. Now that waiting is over since Microsoft and RedHat officially announce their compatibility...
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The release of Windows Server 2008 R2 brings many new features to the table, It is the Remote Desktop Virtualization feature, however, that stands out as the number one new capability in R2's Remote Desktop Services feature suite. The Remote Desktop Virtualization (RDV) feature augments a Remote...
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Ever wonder it would be easy if you can know all the Windows 2008 features in one sheet so at a glance you can look at it and get the big picture. Well that wait is over for me since I found out Microsoft has a solution for this, giant poster! Previously published in the TechNet Magazine, these are two...
