First of, this is a looong post This is a subject that actually I presented at the NIC conferance in Norway in january. How we can use Operations Manager to monitor other worksloads other then Microsoft / Windows. Since in most enterprises they have a lot of different platforms such as:Linux, Vmware, Citrix, Cisco, Microsoft …
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For sometime now I have been occupied with my little book project, it has taken a lot of time from my blogging since it has been completely new territory for my part. But! it has been a unique learning experience and I think that I’ve never been this good a using Word… Ever! A while …
Citrix released yesterday a tech preview of their Service Template for XenDesktop 7.1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager. This template allows for rapid and easy deployment of an entire XenDesktop 7 infrastructure, including setup of Director, License Server, Desktop Delivery Controller and Storefront. It does not by default include Netscaler as part of the …
This is going to be a long one, and I want it done properly! Since I have seen multiple blogs containing the same recipe over and over again on how to setup networking within Virtual Machine Manager I have yet to see a blog post that actually describes and shows how it all links together, …
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Another fancy feature from within Configuraiton Manager is the ability to create VHDs direcly from the console by using a task sequence. Think of the possibilities of creating golden images by bulding a VHD file and then importing this direcly into SCVMM. In order to do this process there are a couple of requirements.* You …
Must say that the product teams are working 110% releasing new managemnet packs almost weekly! the lastest update came from the SQL team, which has been updated 3 times the last year. (there has also been alot of changes within SQL) You can download the management pack from here –> http://bit.ly/187uMJJAnd the lastest update contains …
So as of right now Im taking a vacation from blogging a couple of weeks ahead, why ? Right now I am having 4 MCT traning courses in a row which takes up a lot of time preparing and energy. Another thing that happens recently is that I have been asked to author a book …
Today Microsoft released a Management Pack for VMM 2012R2 Fabric (or a dashboard view) Which can be found here –> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39635 If you want to install this, there are a couple of prerequistes that you need to take care of.(Which are not stated on the download page)First you need to install some additional management packs …
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Microsoft just recently released a preview pack of a management pack that can be used to monitor Windows Server 2012 R2, good job Microsoft! You can download the preview pack here –> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39375 The management pack includes monitors for most of the Windows Server features. Including some awesome feature for Hyper-v 2012 R2, including for …
When Citrix released Excalibur they also included a whole bunch of Powershell which allows you to run Powershell cmdlets to alter anything. If you are inside the Studio console you can see that there is a PowerShell window there, which shows all of the cmdlets that you have run. and how does this help ? …
