when regarding to the newly released vSphere 5.1 and pricing. Vmware has just announced the death of vRAM pricing (and now you can have unlimited vRAM at no extra cost) , and here are the new prices for vSphere 5.1-> https://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/pricing.html Remember the prices here are at PER CPU basis. So for instance if you […]
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Vmware has just announced vSphere 5.1 and it has alots of new features. What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1? • Larger virtual machines – Virtual machines can grow two times larger than in any previous release to support even the most advanced applications. Virtual machines can now have up to 64 virtual CPUs (vCPUs) and
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Now the new Server Manager is a lifesaver, it allows to manage multiple servers from one console. By default it is only supported for Windows Server 2012 but by downloading Windows Management Framework 3.0 and .Net 4 you can manage older versions as well. (2008, 2008R2) You can download the needed files from here –>
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This will be a rather short post, but after I’ve been trying Windows 8 (the final release) for the last couple of days, and I started to wonder “Where is PowerShell ISE?”For those that don’t know what PowerShell ISE is it’s a scripting enviroment for PowerShell (You can read more about it here –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315244.aspx)
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Software Metering is a feature in ConfigMgr 2012 which allows for inventory software usage. For instance you can see how many copies of an application has been deployed to computers and among these you can see how many actually use the application. And how many licenses of a particular software you need. Now in order
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As I stated in a earlier post is that you have the ability to integrate RES Workspace Manager with Configuration Manager.http://msandbu.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/res-workspace-manager-2012/ Workspace Manager is a product that allows you to design how the desktop should appear to the user. Instead of using Group Policy and slow login scripts you can move all those tasks into
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A Couple of days ago, Microsoft released MDT 2012 Update 1.This release included support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.Other features include: Support for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 CTP: Added support in MDT for deploying Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 with Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 CTP, while supporting all new Configuration
Although Service Pack for System Center 2012 is still currently in Tech preview is has a lot of features that needs to be addresses.Here is a list of new features in the latest CTP build 2 (Which was released 15/06/12) Virtual Machine Manager Improved Support for Network Virtualization Extend the VMM console with Add-ins Support
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An import issue to adress in a private cloud setup is setup of HA “high availability”. There a multiple key components that make up a cloud service, and all of the core components need to have HA because if one of the core components go down, your cloud goes down. C The network must be
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Quick post! I had some trouble earlier today with a Xenserver VM that just wouldn’t boot via the Xencenter console. When I ran xe task-list and it showed that the reboot was pending. So I tried to cancel the task via the task-cancel [uuid=Task UUID] No such luck their either, so I tried a xe vm-shutdown vm= or xe
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