This blog will now focus on advanced monitoring of heterogeneous data centers. This includes traditional physical servers, both Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms. It will also include the virtual space, both Hyper-V as well as VMware. Lastly, it absolutely will include networking components!

May 2009 - Posts

• Virtual Environments Get Enhanced Backup, Recovery via Vizioncore

  http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/server_virtualization/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217600717 Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:00 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualization

• New: System Center Operations Manager Online Forums

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenteroperationsmanager Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:44 PM by walterch | 1 Comments Filed under: OpsMgr

• The RTM of Operations Manager 2007 Released Today

  The RTM of Operations Manager 2007 released today. Congratulations to the System Center Operations Manager team on reaching this important milestone! New Functionality Operations Manager 2007 R2 introduces key new and enhanced functionality, including: Read More... Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 3:06 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: R2

• Who says virtualization cant be exciting? ANNOUNCEMENT: VMWARE FUD FIASCO PART 3...

  Courtesy of the Microsoft Virtualization Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/ VMware FUD Fiasco: Part 1: Hyper-V Winning Daily/VMware FUD Reaching New Heights. Part 2: Day Two of the Scott Drummonds VMware FUD Fiasco. Part 3: VMware FUD Read More... Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 6:46 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualization, Just Funny

• Windows Storage Server 2008 with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.2 available to MSDN and TechNet Plus Subscribers

  http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2009/05/13/windows-storage-server-2008-with-the-microsoft-iscsi-software-target-3-2-available-to-msdn-and-technet-plus-subscribers.aspx Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:57 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Hyper-V

• TechNet Webcast: Using Windows PowerShell with Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager

  http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/13/technet-webcast-using-windows-powershell-with-hyper-v-and-virtual-machine-manager.aspx Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:56 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: SCVMM, Hyper-V

• Savision Live Maps Named Number One Add-On for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

  http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/05/prweb2407524.htm&cid=1351076263&ei=gNELSuulJ9PokAWq6ZGEBw&usg=AFQjCNHP6dv6jv6vg1hHj0c4lyLZgGwZog Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:55 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: OpsMgr

• Hyper-V in WS08 R2 Release Candidate: Bringing More to the Table

  http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2009/05/11/hyper-v-in-ws08-r2-release-candidate-bringing-more-to-the-table.aspx Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:54 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Hyper-V

• SCVMM R2 RC Features

  http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/scvmm-r2-rc-features.aspx Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:53 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: SCVMM

• TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Deploys Application Virtualization

  http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2009/05/11/technet-webcast-how-microsoft-it-deploys-application-virtualization.aspx | Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:52 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: App-V

• Four new SCVMM Knowledge Base articles: Week Ending 05/09/2009

  http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/four-new-scvmm-knowledge-base-articles-for-the-week-ending-05-09-2009.aspx Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:52 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: SCVMM

• EMC Radicalizes Virtual Data Center Storage

  http://sg.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=13558&cid=10 Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:50 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualization, Storage

• Cloud Computing with Massive Virtualization

  http://virtualization.sys-con.com/node/964573 Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:50 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualization

• Server Virtualization: Top Five Security Concerns

  http://www.cio.com/article/492605/Server_Virtualization_Top_Five_Security_Concerns Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:49 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualization

• Office Communications Server to Get Virtualization Support

  http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/051309-tech-ed-microsoft-ocs-virtualization.html?hpg1=bn Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:48 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualization

• Solution Summary: ACS Support for Unix and Linux Systems

  Courtesy of Microsoft OpsMgr Team: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/05/11/solution-summary-acs-support-for-unix-and-linux-systems.aspx Read More... Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 3:04 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: R2

• DAS vs. SAN: Capacity and Performance Management

  Courtesy of Information Week: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/05/das_vs_san_capa.html;jsessionid=3ML1IJPOSKY1UQSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL Read More... Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 2:58 PM by walterch | 1 Comments Filed under: Storage

• Best Practices for Reaping the Benefits of Virtualization

  Courtesy of CIO.com: http://www.cio.com/article/491925/_Best_Practices_for_Reaping_the_Benefits_of_Virtualization?taxonomyId=168354 Read More... Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 2:57 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualization

• Brocade Pushes IP Data Center Switches

  Courtesy of http://www.cbronline.com/news/brocade_pushes_ip_data_centre_switches_110509 Read More... Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 2:56 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Data Center Technology

• Oracle Aims to Become the Apple of Data Center Hardware

  Courtesy of CIO.com: http://www.cio.com/article/492257/Oracle_Aims_to_Become_the_Apple_of_Data_Center_Hardware Read More... Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 2:55 PM by walterch | 1 Comments Filed under: Data Center Technology

• Fujitsu Bolsters BX900 Blade Servers

  Courtesy of http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/05/fujitsu_bolster.html Read More... Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 2:54 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Data Center Technology

• Release Candidate Ready for Windows Server 2008 R2

  Courtesy of CIO.com: http://www.cio.com/article/492279/Windows_Server_R_Key_New_Features Read More... Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 2:53 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Hyper-V

• Microsoft's Cool New Approach to Data Centers

  Courtesy of Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2009204767_greendata11.html Read More... Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 2:52 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Data Center Technology

• Juniper Ethernet Switch Optimized for Cloud Computing

  Courtesy of eweek: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Networking/Juniper-Ethernet-Switch-Optimized-for-Cloud-Computing-705724/ Read More... Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 2:50 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud Computing

• Google, VMware Argue over Private Clouds

  Courtesy if Computerworld: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/051209-google-vmware-clouds.html?hpg1=bn Read More... Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 2:49 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Hyper-V, Cloud Computing

• Free Hyper-V Server Upgrade Offers Advanced Features

  Courtesy of Computerworld: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132967&intsrc=news_ts_head Read More... Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 2:48 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Hyper-V