The HP Server Migration Pack - Universal Edition allows for various types of server migrations including physical to ProLiant, virtual to ProLiant, physical to virtual, and virtual to virtual. It provides a centralized application for running migrations and supports migrating to many HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers as well as virtualization platforms. The tool simplifies migrations by guiding users through an 8 step process and can migrate servers, applications, data, and settings with minimal specialized knowledge required. It offers licensing options including single migrations or unlimited migrations for a year.
Virtualization Best Practices-Tips and Tricks From ExpertLai Yoong Seng
- The document provides virtualization best practices for planning, deployment, and management of virtual machines. It includes 10 tips and tricks such as understanding applications before virtualizing, selecting proper hardware, deciding between stand-alone or clustered Hyper-V, using Server Core to reduce attacks, and monitoring VM performance. The document also recommends some free tools for analyzing virtualization configurations.
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on Citrix XenServer 5.0. It discusses the history and architecture of Xen and XenServer, how it provides hardware-assisted virtualization with low performance overhead. It also compares XenServer to other virtualization platforms from VMware and Microsoft.
The document discusses Blackfin device drivers and provides an overview of the device driver model for Blackfin processors. It describes the common API, dataflow methods, and initialization process. An example UART driver application is presented to demonstrate usage of the driver API and chained dataflow method.
This document discusses the challenges of graphics virtualization. It provides background on native device initialization, QEMU I/O virtualization, and PCI device pass-through. It then covers graphics pass-through for discrete and integrated graphics, including the current status and future work, such as supporting dual graphics devices and improving driver validation.
This document summarizes Russell Pavlicek's presentation on the bare-metal hypervisor as a platform for innovation. Some key innovations enabled by the bare-metal hypervisor discussed include Xen Automotive for developing embedded automotive systems, real-time virtualization support, an ARM-based hypervisor for new applications on ARM architecture, and unikernel systems that create highly secure and efficient cloud applications. A bare-metal hypervisor provides advantages like density, scalability, security and custom scheduling that facilitate these innovations.
This document discusses evolving configuration tools for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) networking. It describes Mitch Williams' work at Intel to address pain points with SR-IOV, such as randomly assigned MAC addresses. The solution involved kernel and driver changes to allow setting MAC addresses and VLAN tags for each virtual function from the command line. Future needs discussed include 10Gb support, distro updates, migration support, and addressing communication between VMs with emulated and direct-assigned networking.
The document provides an overview of Zend Server 5 for IBM i. It discusses Zend's relationship with IBM, the technical overview of Zend Server, the installation process, features of the community edition including the toolkit and optimizer, and features of the commercial edition such as application monitoring, code tracing, and job queue capabilities. The document is intended for an audience that uses PHP somewhere else, is new to Zend PHP, or wants to understand Zend's strategic direction with IBM i.
The document discusses new features and updates to Novell's iPrint printing solution for Linux environments. It covers Windows 7 support, printer driver profiles that allow pre-configuring driver settings, automatic driver/profile updates, accounting integration, and tools for troubleshooting and migrating existing iPrint configurations. The presentation provides information on implementing and using these various iPrint capabilities.
Virtualization Best Practices-Tips and Tricks From ExpertLai Yoong Seng
- The document provides virtualization best practices for planning, deployment, and management of virtual machines. It includes 10 tips and tricks such as understanding applications before virtualizing, selecting proper hardware, deciding between stand-alone or clustered Hyper-V, using Server Core to reduce attacks, and monitoring VM performance. The document also recommends some free tools for analyzing virtualization configurations.
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on Citrix XenServer 5.0. It discusses the history and architecture of Xen and XenServer, how it provides hardware-assisted virtualization with low performance overhead. It also compares XenServer to other virtualization platforms from VMware and Microsoft.
The document discusses Blackfin device drivers and provides an overview of the device driver model for Blackfin processors. It describes the common API, dataflow methods, and initialization process. An example UART driver application is presented to demonstrate usage of the driver API and chained dataflow method.
This document discusses the challenges of graphics virtualization. It provides background on native device initialization, QEMU I/O virtualization, and PCI device pass-through. It then covers graphics pass-through for discrete and integrated graphics, including the current status and future work, such as supporting dual graphics devices and improving driver validation.
This document summarizes Russell Pavlicek's presentation on the bare-metal hypervisor as a platform for innovation. Some key innovations enabled by the bare-metal hypervisor discussed include Xen Automotive for developing embedded automotive systems, real-time virtualization support, an ARM-based hypervisor for new applications on ARM architecture, and unikernel systems that create highly secure and efficient cloud applications. A bare-metal hypervisor provides advantages like density, scalability, security and custom scheduling that facilitate these innovations.
This document discusses evolving configuration tools for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) networking. It describes Mitch Williams' work at Intel to address pain points with SR-IOV, such as randomly assigned MAC addresses. The solution involved kernel and driver changes to allow setting MAC addresses and VLAN tags for each virtual function from the command line. Future needs discussed include 10Gb support, distro updates, migration support, and addressing communication between VMs with emulated and direct-assigned networking.
The document provides an overview of Zend Server 5 for IBM i. It discusses Zend's relationship with IBM, the technical overview of Zend Server, the installation process, features of the community edition including the toolkit and optimizer, and features of the commercial edition such as application monitoring, code tracing, and job queue capabilities. The document is intended for an audience that uses PHP somewhere else, is new to Zend PHP, or wants to understand Zend's strategic direction with IBM i.
The document discusses new features and updates to Novell's iPrint printing solution for Linux environments. It covers Windows 7 support, printer driver profiles that allow pre-configuring driver settings, automatic driver/profile updates, accounting integration, and tools for troubleshooting and migrating existing iPrint configurations. The presentation provides information on implementing and using these various iPrint capabilities.
Xen has been very successful on servers, and yet there are substantial areas where Xen can evolve further. In this talk Jun will discuss a compelling area where the Xen technologies can be applied to -- Mobile virtualization. Using Android as an example, the talk will explore two types of usage models, 1) Android as a guest, 2) Android as the host, showing the benefits of using the Xen technologies.
ATG needed to virtualize over 2,000 remote betting terminals to allow for hardware independence and an evolutionary transition from older OS/2 systems to newer Linux systems. They implemented the open source Xen hypervisor which allowed them to run existing OS/2 applications virtually on new Linux machines, transition applications to a new Java platform gradually, and gain more flexibility and influence over the hypervisor development. This provided a cost effective solution to modernize systems while maintaining existing functionality during the transition.
ARM Architecture-based System Virtualization: Xen ARM open source software pr...The Linux Foundation
Xen ARM provides virtualization capabilities for ARM-based systems. It allows multiple guest operating systems to run concurrently on a single system. Xen ARM uses a lightweight hypervisor that provides CPU, memory, and I/O virtualization. Performance tests show that Xen ARM incurs minimal overhead compared to native systems. Xen ARM also enables security and real-time applications by isolating guest operating systems and bounding interrupt latency.
This document proposes a method for link virtualization on the Xen virtualization platform using Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV). It discusses using SR-IOV to minimize overhead by performing encapsulation/decapsulation and packet filtering in hardware. It also describes using MAC-in-UDP tunneling with a virtual network ID to isolate networks and a vARP protocol to map between virtual and physical MAC addresses. The document evaluates the proposed method's ability to guarantee bandwidth isolation and provides performance results for both weight-based and bandwidth-based bandwidth control approaches.
Understanding software licensing with IBM Power Systems PowerVM virtualizationJay Kruemcke
One of the key benefits of combining workloads in a virtualized environment is the ability to pay for less than the full capacity of the machine. Unfortunately there are many misconceptions about how software licensing really works in these environments.
The IBM Power Systems PowerVM virtualization technology offers a great deal of flexibility, but that flexibility also results in complexity when determining software license requirements. This presentation covers important licensing considerations for the IBM Power Systems environment.
Computer Vision Powered by Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) by Dr. Ha...AMD Developer Central
Computer Vision Powered by Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) by Dr. Harris Gasparakis, AMD, at the Embedded Vision Alliance Summit, May 2014.
Harris Gasparakis, Ph.D., is AMD’s OpenCV manager. In addition to enhancing OpenCV with OpenCL acceleration, he is engaged in AMD’s Computer Vision strategic planning, ISVs, and AMD Ventures engagements, including technical leadership and oversight in the AMD Gesture product line. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics from YITP at SUNYSB. He is credited with enabling real-time volumetric visualization and analysis in Radiology Information Systems (Terarecon), including the first commercially available virtual colonoscopy system (Vital Images). He was responsible for cutting edge medical technology (Biosense Webster, Stereotaxis, Boston Scientific), incorporating image and signal processing with AI and robotic control.
The document outlines an agenda for a training on IBM P-Series servers at Cochin Shipyard Ltd. The training will cover introductions to IBM P-Series servers and their specifications. It will also cover logical partitions (LPARs), the AIX operating system, server hardware redundancy, monitoring, troubleshooting, backups and upgrades. Specific topics will include LPAR creation, PowerHA, user and error logs, file systems, performance monitoring and first level troubleshooting steps.
This document discusses SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) in ACRN. It begins with an introduction to SR-IOV, describing how it allows PCIe devices to be isolated and have near bare-metal performance through the use of Physical Functions (PFs) and Virtual Functions (VFs). It then outlines the SR-IOV architecture in ACRN, including how it detects and initializes SR-IOV devices, assigns VFs to VMs, and manages the lifecycle of VFs. Finally, it provides an agenda for an SR-IOV demo using an Intel 82576 NIC and concludes with a Q&A section.
LAB - Perforce Large Scale & Multi-Site ImplementationsPerforce
Using the Edge server solution you can streamline how replication is set up and designed within your Perforce environment. Key configurables, options and topologies for replication in Perforce will be shown, allowing you to live on the edge and get the best performance and use out of our improved replication solutions.
Automated Out-of-Band management with Ansible and RedfishJose De La Rosa
Ansible is an open source automation engine that automates complex IT tasks such as cloud provisioning, application deployment and a wide variety of system administration tasks. It is a one-to-many agentless mechanism where complex deployment tasks can be controlled and monitored from a central control machine.
Redfish is an open industry-standard specification and schema designed for modern and secure management of platform hardware. On Dell EMC PowerEdge servers the Redfish management APIs are available via the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC), which can be used by IT administrators to easily monitor and manage at scale their entire infrastructure using a wide array of clients on devices such as laptops, tablets and smart phones.
Together, Ansible and Redfish can be used by system administrators to fully automate at large scale server monitoring, provisioning and update tasks from one central location, significantly reducing complexity and helping improve the productivity and efficiency of IT administrators.
Introduction to Novell ZENworks Configuration Management TroubleshootingNovell
This document provides an introduction and overview of Novell ZENworks Configuration Management troubleshooting. It discusses troubleshooting agents, including checking agent services, communication, cache, and using the ZENworks Administration Command (ZAC). It also covers troubleshooting servers, including checking server services, communication, and logs. Finally, it discusses ZENworks and database management, including the different database types, ZMAN usage, and system update processes.
The 4.5 release no a minor "point" update: it is one of the most feature-rich releases in the project's history. It contains several important additions. Most notably, new Xen PVH virtualization mode now supports running as dom0, enhanced support for Remus, significant ARM architecture updates, security improvements, real-time scheduling, support for Intel Cache Monitoring Technology (CMT), as well as improvements for automotive and embedded use-cases. Other enhancements include additional support for FreeBSD, systemd support, additional libvirt support, the release of Mirage OS 2.0, and more.
Besides giving an overview of Xen 4.5, we will explain the project's roadmap process and share what's ahead for 2015: such as improved OpenStack integration and hotpatching (applying security fixes without the need to reboot).
QNAP Multimedia Server and Player
The Turbo NAS is a media center with DLNA/UPnP support. By using DLNA/UPnP digital devices, such as AV Receivers, Smart TV,' Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Hi-Fi system, you can view photos and play videos, listen to music stored on the Turbo NAS, and even stream Internet radio stations from all over the world.
QAirplay
Available in the App Center, QAirplay allows you to steam your media content directly on TV via AirPlay-enabled devices such as Apple TV. The media contents are streaming on Apple TV, bypassing your mobile device, thus saves the energy of your mobile device.
Stream music on iTunes
With the iTunes server, you can share and play the MP3 files by iTunes player installed on any Mac® or Windows®PC on the home network.
In this session we examined the Xen PV performance on the latest platforms in a few cases that covers CPU/memory intensive, disk intensive and network intensive workloads. We compared Xen PV guest vs. HVM/PVOPS to see whether PV guest still have advantage over HVM on a system with state-of-the-art VT features. KVM was also compared as a reference. We also compared PV driver performance against bare-metal and pass-through/SR-IOV. The identified issues were discussed and we presented our proposal on fixing those issues.
Deploying Baremetal Instances with OpenStackEtsuji Nakai
The document discusses plans to deploy baremetal instances on OpenStack for the NII dodai-compute2.0 project. It compares the architectures of dodai-compute1.0 and NTTdocomo-openstack for coupling with Nova scheduler, OS provisioning, and network virtualization. The goal is to extend the upstream framework to support the use cases of NII's Academic Research Cloud, while contributions remain in the upstream project.
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 OverviewAmit Gatenyo
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 include new features such as Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX. Dynamic Memory allows virtual machines to dynamically adjust their memory usage based on demand, improving consolidation ratios. RemoteFX enables 3D graphics and rich media experiences for remote desktop sessions using host-side rendering. Other changes in SP1 include enhancements to DirectAccess and support for increased authentication traffic on domain controllers.
1) JustRunIt is an experiment-based infrastructure for managing virtualized data centers that uses VM cloning and workload replay to conduct management experiments in a sandbox.
2) Case studies show JustRunIt can determine optimal resource allocations to meet performance targets with minimal resources, outperforming highly accurate modeling.
3) JustRunIt can also evaluate hardware upgrades by running experiments on upgraded sandbox hardware.
Virtualization technologies allow servers to be consolidated onto fewer physical servers for improved efficiency. IBM's PowerVM allows one physical server to be divided into multiple logical partitions (LPARs), with each LPAR able to run its own operating system. Key PowerVM technologies include micro-partitioning which divides physical CPUs among LPARs, dynamic LPARs which moves resources between active partitions, and virtual I/O servers which allow partitions to share physical network and storage adapters. These technologies improve utilization, flexibility, and availability compared to using separate physical servers.
This document provides instructions for setting up an Ignite-UX server to cold install HP-UX clients over a network. It describes checking the server system meets requirements such as having the correct HP-UX version and sufficient disk space. It also outlines installing the Ignite-UX software and HP-UX operating environment depot from DVD on the server.
The document provides prerequisites and recommendations for installing and using Liquidware Labs Stratusphere components for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) assessments. It outlines requirements for the Stratusphere Hub, Connector ID Keys, and Network Station components, including supported hypervisors, download sizes, CPU/memory/storage needs, and network port requirements. It also provides guidance on preparing the environment, such as configuring networking and importing user/machine groups.
Xen has been very successful on servers, and yet there are substantial areas where Xen can evolve further. In this talk Jun will discuss a compelling area where the Xen technologies can be applied to -- Mobile virtualization. Using Android as an example, the talk will explore two types of usage models, 1) Android as a guest, 2) Android as the host, showing the benefits of using the Xen technologies.
ATG needed to virtualize over 2,000 remote betting terminals to allow for hardware independence and an evolutionary transition from older OS/2 systems to newer Linux systems. They implemented the open source Xen hypervisor which allowed them to run existing OS/2 applications virtually on new Linux machines, transition applications to a new Java platform gradually, and gain more flexibility and influence over the hypervisor development. This provided a cost effective solution to modernize systems while maintaining existing functionality during the transition.
ARM Architecture-based System Virtualization: Xen ARM open source software pr...The Linux Foundation
Xen ARM provides virtualization capabilities for ARM-based systems. It allows multiple guest operating systems to run concurrently on a single system. Xen ARM uses a lightweight hypervisor that provides CPU, memory, and I/O virtualization. Performance tests show that Xen ARM incurs minimal overhead compared to native systems. Xen ARM also enables security and real-time applications by isolating guest operating systems and bounding interrupt latency.
This document proposes a method for link virtualization on the Xen virtualization platform using Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV). It discusses using SR-IOV to minimize overhead by performing encapsulation/decapsulation and packet filtering in hardware. It also describes using MAC-in-UDP tunneling with a virtual network ID to isolate networks and a vARP protocol to map between virtual and physical MAC addresses. The document evaluates the proposed method's ability to guarantee bandwidth isolation and provides performance results for both weight-based and bandwidth-based bandwidth control approaches.
Understanding software licensing with IBM Power Systems PowerVM virtualizationJay Kruemcke
One of the key benefits of combining workloads in a virtualized environment is the ability to pay for less than the full capacity of the machine. Unfortunately there are many misconceptions about how software licensing really works in these environments.
The IBM Power Systems PowerVM virtualization technology offers a great deal of flexibility, but that flexibility also results in complexity when determining software license requirements. This presentation covers important licensing considerations for the IBM Power Systems environment.
Computer Vision Powered by Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) by Dr. Ha...AMD Developer Central
Computer Vision Powered by Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) by Dr. Harris Gasparakis, AMD, at the Embedded Vision Alliance Summit, May 2014.
Harris Gasparakis, Ph.D., is AMD’s OpenCV manager. In addition to enhancing OpenCV with OpenCL acceleration, he is engaged in AMD’s Computer Vision strategic planning, ISVs, and AMD Ventures engagements, including technical leadership and oversight in the AMD Gesture product line. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics from YITP at SUNYSB. He is credited with enabling real-time volumetric visualization and analysis in Radiology Information Systems (Terarecon), including the first commercially available virtual colonoscopy system (Vital Images). He was responsible for cutting edge medical technology (Biosense Webster, Stereotaxis, Boston Scientific), incorporating image and signal processing with AI and robotic control.
The document outlines an agenda for a training on IBM P-Series servers at Cochin Shipyard Ltd. The training will cover introductions to IBM P-Series servers and their specifications. It will also cover logical partitions (LPARs), the AIX operating system, server hardware redundancy, monitoring, troubleshooting, backups and upgrades. Specific topics will include LPAR creation, PowerHA, user and error logs, file systems, performance monitoring and first level troubleshooting steps.
This document discusses SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) in ACRN. It begins with an introduction to SR-IOV, describing how it allows PCIe devices to be isolated and have near bare-metal performance through the use of Physical Functions (PFs) and Virtual Functions (VFs). It then outlines the SR-IOV architecture in ACRN, including how it detects and initializes SR-IOV devices, assigns VFs to VMs, and manages the lifecycle of VFs. Finally, it provides an agenda for an SR-IOV demo using an Intel 82576 NIC and concludes with a Q&A section.
LAB - Perforce Large Scale & Multi-Site ImplementationsPerforce
Using the Edge server solution you can streamline how replication is set up and designed within your Perforce environment. Key configurables, options and topologies for replication in Perforce will be shown, allowing you to live on the edge and get the best performance and use out of our improved replication solutions.
Automated Out-of-Band management with Ansible and RedfishJose De La Rosa
Ansible is an open source automation engine that automates complex IT tasks such as cloud provisioning, application deployment and a wide variety of system administration tasks. It is a one-to-many agentless mechanism where complex deployment tasks can be controlled and monitored from a central control machine.
Redfish is an open industry-standard specification and schema designed for modern and secure management of platform hardware. On Dell EMC PowerEdge servers the Redfish management APIs are available via the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC), which can be used by IT administrators to easily monitor and manage at scale their entire infrastructure using a wide array of clients on devices such as laptops, tablets and smart phones.
Together, Ansible and Redfish can be used by system administrators to fully automate at large scale server monitoring, provisioning and update tasks from one central location, significantly reducing complexity and helping improve the productivity and efficiency of IT administrators.
Introduction to Novell ZENworks Configuration Management TroubleshootingNovell
This document provides an introduction and overview of Novell ZENworks Configuration Management troubleshooting. It discusses troubleshooting agents, including checking agent services, communication, cache, and using the ZENworks Administration Command (ZAC). It also covers troubleshooting servers, including checking server services, communication, and logs. Finally, it discusses ZENworks and database management, including the different database types, ZMAN usage, and system update processes.
The 4.5 release no a minor "point" update: it is one of the most feature-rich releases in the project's history. It contains several important additions. Most notably, new Xen PVH virtualization mode now supports running as dom0, enhanced support for Remus, significant ARM architecture updates, security improvements, real-time scheduling, support for Intel Cache Monitoring Technology (CMT), as well as improvements for automotive and embedded use-cases. Other enhancements include additional support for FreeBSD, systemd support, additional libvirt support, the release of Mirage OS 2.0, and more.
Besides giving an overview of Xen 4.5, we will explain the project's roadmap process and share what's ahead for 2015: such as improved OpenStack integration and hotpatching (applying security fixes without the need to reboot).
QNAP Multimedia Server and Player
The Turbo NAS is a media center with DLNA/UPnP support. By using DLNA/UPnP digital devices, such as AV Receivers, Smart TV,' Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Hi-Fi system, you can view photos and play videos, listen to music stored on the Turbo NAS, and even stream Internet radio stations from all over the world.
QAirplay
Available in the App Center, QAirplay allows you to steam your media content directly on TV via AirPlay-enabled devices such as Apple TV. The media contents are streaming on Apple TV, bypassing your mobile device, thus saves the energy of your mobile device.
Stream music on iTunes
With the iTunes server, you can share and play the MP3 files by iTunes player installed on any Mac® or Windows®PC on the home network.
In this session we examined the Xen PV performance on the latest platforms in a few cases that covers CPU/memory intensive, disk intensive and network intensive workloads. We compared Xen PV guest vs. HVM/PVOPS to see whether PV guest still have advantage over HVM on a system with state-of-the-art VT features. KVM was also compared as a reference. We also compared PV driver performance against bare-metal and pass-through/SR-IOV. The identified issues were discussed and we presented our proposal on fixing those issues.
Deploying Baremetal Instances with OpenStackEtsuji Nakai
The document discusses plans to deploy baremetal instances on OpenStack for the NII dodai-compute2.0 project. It compares the architectures of dodai-compute1.0 and NTTdocomo-openstack for coupling with Nova scheduler, OS provisioning, and network virtualization. The goal is to extend the upstream framework to support the use cases of NII's Academic Research Cloud, while contributions remain in the upstream project.
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 OverviewAmit Gatenyo
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 include new features such as Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX. Dynamic Memory allows virtual machines to dynamically adjust their memory usage based on demand, improving consolidation ratios. RemoteFX enables 3D graphics and rich media experiences for remote desktop sessions using host-side rendering. Other changes in SP1 include enhancements to DirectAccess and support for increased authentication traffic on domain controllers.
1) JustRunIt is an experiment-based infrastructure for managing virtualized data centers that uses VM cloning and workload replay to conduct management experiments in a sandbox.
2) Case studies show JustRunIt can determine optimal resource allocations to meet performance targets with minimal resources, outperforming highly accurate modeling.
3) JustRunIt can also evaluate hardware upgrades by running experiments on upgraded sandbox hardware.
Virtualization technologies allow servers to be consolidated onto fewer physical servers for improved efficiency. IBM's PowerVM allows one physical server to be divided into multiple logical partitions (LPARs), with each LPAR able to run its own operating system. Key PowerVM technologies include micro-partitioning which divides physical CPUs among LPARs, dynamic LPARs which moves resources between active partitions, and virtual I/O servers which allow partitions to share physical network and storage adapters. These technologies improve utilization, flexibility, and availability compared to using separate physical servers.
This document provides instructions for setting up an Ignite-UX server to cold install HP-UX clients over a network. It describes checking the server system meets requirements such as having the correct HP-UX version and sufficient disk space. It also outlines installing the Ignite-UX software and HP-UX operating environment depot from DVD on the server.
The document provides prerequisites and recommendations for installing and using Liquidware Labs Stratusphere components for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) assessments. It outlines requirements for the Stratusphere Hub, Connector ID Keys, and Network Station components, including supported hypervisors, download sizes, CPU/memory/storage needs, and network port requirements. It also provides guidance on preparing the environment, such as configuring networking and importing user/machine groups.
This document summarizes the capabilities and improvements to Hyper-V virtualization over multiple versions of Windows Server. Key points include:
- Windows Server 2012 allows for 320 logical processors, 4 TB of physical memory, and up to 64 virtual processors and 1 TB of memory per virtual machine.
- Live migration and storage migration capabilities have improved, allowing unlimited simultaneous migrations.
- Cluster and virtual machine scaling has increased significantly, with support for 64 nodes and 8000 VMs per cluster in Windows Server 2012.
- System Center introduces the concept of service templates and instances to define and deploy multi-tier applications on virtual machines in a standardized and repeatable way.
This document provides an overview of the technical architecture for a cloud platform. It discusses various components including source control, continuous integration/build services, artifact storage, deployment services, infrastructure as code, orchestration, configuration/vaults, logging, monitoring, service discovery, load balancing, and platform services. For each component, it outlines relevant features, example solutions, and standards. The overall goal is to provide guidance on architecting a cloud platform that can build, deploy, host, run, and monitor application services.
Security best practices for hyper v and server virtualisation [svr307]Louis Göhl
The document provides information on the Microsoft Assessment & Planning Toolkit 5.0 customer technology preview and Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Management Beta 2. It also covers topics like Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V security best practices, Hyper-V networking configurations, Windows Server 2008 R2: SCONFIG, and Hyper-V best practices.
The document discusses server virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V and HP solutions. It provides an overview of virtualization benefits like consolidation and efficiency. It also covers virtual machine lifecycle management best practices, considerations for application virtualization, and how HP Insight Control complements Microsoft System Center solutions for virtualization management.
SharePoint 2010 Virtualization - Hungarian SharePoint User GroupMichael Noel
Michael Noel is an author of books on Microsoft technologies and a partner at Convergent Computing. The document discusses virtualizing SharePoint 2010, including guidelines, models, and Microsoft's virtualization options. It provides recommendations for virtualizing different SharePoint roles and the licensing implications. It demonstrates quickly provisioning a SharePoint farm using a VM template and PowerShell script.
Building and Managing your Virtual Datacenter using PowerShell DSC - Florin L...ITCamp
PowerShell DSC is a configuration management platform that provides the operations team the capability to deploy and manage systems by defining the desired configuration of a machine while having the assurance that whatever happens, the machines configuration will remain the same.
In this session you will learn what is PowerShell DSC, and how it can grant you the power of implementing a DevOps oriented environment by building and managing your infrastructure in an automatic and consistent fashion.
Rui Lapa is a senior Linux system administrator who has worked in that role for almost 6 years at Central Farm Solutions, where he manages 800 Linux desktops and 17 servers across 3 different LAN and internet networks. He discusses how he uses Puppet for total management and automation of Linux desktops and servers, including configuration of applications, settings, operating systems, updates, and other aspects of the infrastructure. He also discusses how RabbitMQ and other tools are used for additional automation and integration between development and operations teams.
HP Virtualization Solutions: Making the Virtual Realelliando dias
HP offers virtualization solutions to help businesses pool and share IT resources in order to reduce costs, increase agility, and improve quality. HP's technologies allow businesses to transform their rigid IT infrastructure into an adaptive one that meets business demands. HP provides a continuum of partitioning technologies from hardware partitions to virtual machines that offer different levels of isolation and sharing of server resources.
The document discusses Agnostic Device Drivers (ADD), a concept for a slimline boot firmware for Linux on Power Architecture systems. ADD uses a small virtual machine to execute bytecode programs that control low-bandwidth devices like I2C and GPIO in a platform-agnostic way. ADD programs can be packaged in the device tree or inserted at runtime, and the virtual machine can run in hosted mode or as a kernel thread. ADD aims to provide high-level programming capabilities while maintaining flexibility, performance and a small footprint. The document also discusses further opportunities for ADD like real-time support, scheduling, multi-OS compatibility and extended debugging facilities.
SharePoint 2010 can be successfully virtualized using Microsoft's virtualization platforms and third-party virtualization products that are part of the Server Virtualization Validation Program. Microsoft provides guidelines for virtualizing SharePoint farms and roles including front-end web servers, application servers, and database servers. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 allows for quick provisioning of SharePoint farms from templates.
Presented by Michael NOEL, this session focuses on SharePoint Server 2010 farm virtualization, and how components of a SharePoint 2010 environment can be successfully virtualized.
SharePoint Saturday Vietnam 22/01/11 was sponsored by Officience. Visit http://www.officience.com/
This document provides a summary of a presentation on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V best practices. It covers topics such as assessing existing infrastructure, designing virtual machines and hosts, deploying Hyper-V and VMM, integrating with OpsMgr, and backing up with DPM 2010. The presentation emphasizes the importance of requirements gathering, server sizing, storage design, and following application vendor guidance. It also promotes clustered hosting and the use of tools like MAP, VMM, and OpsMgr for management.
Fedora 15 "Lovelock" introduces several new features for desktop users, developers, and system administrators. For desktop users, it features GNOME 3.0, Btrfs filesystem, improved power management, LibreOffice, and Tryton business applications. Developers will benefit from tools like BoxGrinder for appliance generation, GCC 4.6 improvements, Maven 3, Python 3.2, and Rails 3. System administrators gain consistent network device naming, a dynamic firewall, and improved compression for live images using the xz algorithm. Alternative desktop environments and applications are available in different Fedora Spins.
Nano Server - the future of Windows Server - Thomas MaurerITCamp
Nano Server is the future of Windows Server. With Nano Server Microsoft created the foundation for Windows Server for the next 20 year. In this session you will get an overview about Nano Server and see some great live demos how you can deploy, manage and operate Nano Server as well as creating applications for it.
Get a better understanding of Nano Server and see how you deploy, manage and operate it.
Finer Things Club - Lesser known zOSMF SW Mgmt Functions.pdfMarna Walle
The document describes several lesser known functions in z/OSMF Software Management that can help simplify software management tasks. These include the z/OS Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) that uniquely identifies a z/OS system, z/OSMF package signing verification to ensure package integrity, an end of service report to identify products nearing end of support, merging data sets during deployment for reduced maintenance, validating the accuracy of DDDEF and data set definitions, determining the last date HOLDDATA was received, and installing a single product using z/OSMF portable software instances. Using these functions can help software administrators more easily manage software across their systems.
VMware Infrastructure includes ESX Server, Virtual Center Server, VI Client, license server and database. ESX Server has minimum hardware requirements of 2 processors, 1GB RAM, network adapter and SCSI/Fibre Channel storage. It supports installing on IDE/SCSI disks and SANs. Virtual Center Server requires 2GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 1GB storage and network adapter and supports Windows and SQL/Oracle databases. VI Client has minimum requirements of 266MHz processor, 256MB RAM, 150MB storage and network adapter and supports Windows OSes.
Similar to HP Universal Server Migration Pack - Magnus Wetterberg.ppt (20)
1) File uploads in PHP require configuring php.ini settings like enabling file uploads and setting temporary storage directories with correct permissions.
2) Forms for file uploads need to use POST with multipart/form-data encoding and include file input fields and hidden fields.
3) PHP stores uploaded files in the $_FILES array, including the temporary filename, size, type, and original name, which can then be processed and moved to a permanent location.
Running and Developing Tests with the Apache::Test Frameworkwebhostingguy
The Apache::Test framework allows running and developing tests for Apache modules and products. Key features include:
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- Setting up a new testing environment by installing Apache::Test and generating a Makefile
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2. Addressing all elements of the HP
ProLiant and BladeSystem
lifecycle
ProLiant
Essentials
Total
Control Task-specific
software options
Maximum
Flexibility
HP SIM
Foundation
Tangible
Savings
Intelligent Infrastructure
4. HP Server Migration Pack –
Universal Edition
• Meets all your HP ProLiant and BladeSystem
migration needs
− Physical to ProLiant (P2P)
− Virtual to ProLiant (V2P)
− Physical* to Virtual (P2V)
− Virtual to Virtual** (V2V)
* - Source server can be any x86 server, regardless
of vendor.
** - Ability to migrate between virtualization vendors
6. The three components of any
migration – the APP STATION
This is the SMP Universal application station
– it is the central migration execution point for
all migrations. It does not need to be a server
class machine; it can be a workstation, laptop,
etc).
The SMP-UE application station can optionally
be installed on the HP Systems Insight
Manager central management server. If so, the
HP SIM CMS would need to be a server class
machine. (The application station is not
required to be installed on the HP SIM CMS in
SMP Universal
order to integrate with HP SIM.)
Application Station
7. The three components of any
migration – the SOURCE server
This is the source server – it is where we
will be migrating FROM. This can be any
physical x86 server, regardless of
hardware vendor, or a VMware or
Microsoft virtual server.
Source server (physical or virtual)
8. The three components of any
migration – the DESTINATION
server
This is the destination server – it is
where we will be migrating TO. This can
be any supported HP ProLiant server or
BladeSystem server blade, or a VMware
or Microsoft virtual server host.
Destination server
(HP ProLiant, BladeSystem,
or virtual host)
9. How it works…
1. Use the SMP Universal CD to
install the SMP Universal browser-
based application on the
designated application station.
SMP Universal
Application Station
10. How it works…
2. Use the same SMP Universal CD
to run the SMP Universal “agent”
on the source server. This agent is
run only when needed to migrate,
and can be automatically removed
Source server
after migration. (physical or virtual)
11. How it works…(2ProLiant)
3. Boot the destination server off of
the same SMP Universal CD. No
other pre-work is required on the
destination server.
a. If an IP address is needed, the SMP
Universal CD contains a mechanism
to retrieve an IP from a DHCP server Destination server
of your choice, or to apply a static IP (HP ProLiant or
address to the server. BladeSystem)
b. In order to partition the volume on the
destination server, an array
configuration utility is provided on the
SMP Universal CD.
12. or How it works…(2Virtual)
3. Use the same SMP Universal CD
to run the SMP Universal “agent”
on the source server. This agent is
run only when needed to migrate,
and can be automatically removed
after migration.
Destination server
(virtual host)
13. Altogether
Source Server Destination Server
Application Station
14. Automated migration is now an option!
Just migrate your existing server
No need for from-the-ground-up deployment
Data Same Data
Application Same Application
OS Same OS
Drivers New Drivers
or other
other brand / Virtual Machine
Automated migration process takes care of driver compatibility
Drop or resize partitions during migration
Automated, Accurate, Affordable
15. Before… and after!
Before After
Getting a new HP ProLiant server or Your new HP ProLiant server or
BladeSystem into production takes days, BladeSystem is in production in a matter of
weeks, or even months. hours – on average, 2 – 3 minutes per GB
of content.
Three or more specialists per server Less than one person per server
required to prepare the new server for required to run HP SMP Universal.
production (security, application, QA, etc).
Highly trained specialists spending time on Junior level operators stepping through
non critical task of server builds. an 8 step wizard, while specialists’ time is
put to better use.
Additional tool required to migrate to One tool does it all – no setup time or
virtual machines, maybe more than one. learning curve for multiple migration tools.
No ability to move virtual back to physical. Move virtual servers to physical when you
need to.
HP is designs, engineers, and tests
HP ProLiant and BladeSystem technology…
why trust anyone else for HP ProLiant and BladeSystem
migrations?
17. 2Virtual Support Matrix
Source Source server for any x86 server
P2V
Source OS for P2V Windows NT 4.0 SP 6a
Windows Server 2000 SP4
Windows Server 2000 Advanced Server SP4
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP1 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition
Windows XP Professional
Windows 2000 Professional
Source VM for V2V Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
VMware ESX Server 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 3.0, 3.0.1, and 3.0.2
VMware GSX 3.2, 3.2.1
VMware Server 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3
Source OS for V2V Windows NT 4.0 SP 6a
Windows Server 2000 SP4
Windows Server 2000 Advanced Server SP4
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP1 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition
Windows XP Professional
Windows 2000 Professional
Destination VM for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
Destination Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
P2V or V2V VMware ESX Server 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 3.0, 3.0.1, and 3.0.2
VMware GSX 3.2, 3.2.1
VMware Server 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3
18. Licensing and Pricing
X2ProLiant Physical / virtual to ProLiant single per migration
Single Migration migration licenses
X2Virtual Physical / virtual to virtual single
Single Migration migration licenses per migration
1 Year X2X Unlimited One year subscription for unlimited per year
Migrations migrations of any type
• One year of technical support included!
− Rapid access to trained support staff that can help quickly isolate and
troubleshoot software installation and configuration issues.
− Customers are eligible for the latest updates of SMP Universal as long
as they have a valid license for any migration.
19. Next steps
• Visit www.hp.com/go/migrate to freely download
SMP Universal for trial
− Two full migration licenses available
• Ordering SMP Universal
− Licensing options WITH part numbers
20. What about HP Server Migration
Pack (Classic)?
• Former HP product
− P2V, V2P, and V2V only
− HP SIM requirement
− HP VMM requirement
• STATUS: Product is now EOL.
− Existing migration licenses owners: Existing licenses
can be converted to SMP Universal Edition licenses
using included license utility.
21. What about HP Server Migration Pack –
Physical to ProLiant Edition (aka P2P, SMP-
P2P)?
• Former HP product
− Physical to ProLiant migrations only
− No ability to interface with HP SIM
− Could not reside on HP SIM CMS
• STATUS: Product is now EOL.
− Existing migration licenses owners: Existing licenses
can be converted to SMP Universal Edition licenses
using included license utility.