This document provides 5 reasons to choose Microsoft Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5 for private cloud solutions:
1. Hyper-V has strong adoption momentum and growth in market share compared to vSphere. Major customers are using Hyper-V.
2. Hyper-V is built into Windows Server, providing familiarity and minimizing learning curves. It also has a more secure architecture.
3. Hyper-V provides best performance for virtualizing Microsoft workloads like SharePoint, SQL Server, and Exchange.
4. System Center provides superior management of private clouds, both Hyper-V and third-party virtualization, as well as physical systems.
5. Hyper-V licensing is unlimited
Veritas Resiliency Platform 3.2 offers key features that can benefit large en...Principled Technologies
The document compares the disaster recovery features of Veritas Resiliency Platform 3.2 and Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0. It finds that VRP offers several advantages over Zerto for large enterprises, including centralized management, built-in automation tasks, DNS integration, and the ability to group related VMs and prioritize their recovery order. VRP also includes encryption and integrations with third-party replication technologies. The document concludes that for large businesses, VRP may be a better solution than Zerto due to these enterprise-oriented features.
This document outlines a training course on Microsoft Virtualization. The course is divided into two halves, with the first half covering introductory topics like Hyper-V infrastructure and networking, and the second half focusing on advanced topics such as Hyper-V management, high availability, and integration with System Center 2012. Management options for Hyper-V are also discussed, including using Hyper-V Manager, Windows PowerShell, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager for large environments.
Minimizing licensing costs for enterprise applications is vital to organizations looking to keep costs down. When your applications use per-core licensing, choosing higher-performance servers with fewer cores dramatically reduces your software-related spending. The Dell PowerEdge M820 blade solution with Compellent storage could deliver up to $96,236 in savings as compared to a single HP ProLiant BL680c G7 solution, and if consolidating multiple workloads, could deliver even more savings in licensing costs when running Microsoft SQL Server in a virtualized scenario – all while maintaining or exceeding previous performance levels.
VMmark virtualization performance of Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SANPrincipled Technologies
The storage you use for your virtualization solution can be a significant factor in its performance and effectiveness. Two Dell PowerEdge R720 servers, paired with Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SAN, ran 10 VMmark tiles for a total of 80 running VMs and achieved a score of 12.05@10 tiles, making it the top score running VMware ESXi 5.5 of the 32-core server configurations. For enterprises that need excellent virtualization performance, this makes Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SAN a wise investment.
Red Hat JBoss Fuse and TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.3 are both integration platforms that allow messages to be received, processed, and delivered between systems. Red Hat JBoss Fuse uses the open source Apache Camel framework and includes the Red Hat JBoss A-MQ messaging platform. TIBCO's offerings are proprietary and require separate licensing of additional components like messaging platforms. Red Hat provides consistent private, public and hybrid cloud capabilities using OpenShift, while TIBCO's cloud offerings are inconsistent with different technologies. Pricing and licensing models also differ between the open source Red Hat products and TIBCO's proprietary solutions.
WIndows Embedded Compact 2013 – What’s newsMirco Vanini
Windows Embedded Compact 2013 is Microsoft's platform for small-footprint devices requiring real-time performance. It supports ARM and x86 architectures. Development uses Visual Studio 2012 with support for C++, C#, and XAML. Applications can be developed natively or using the .NET Compact Framework. The presentation demonstrated creating virtual devices, connecting to devices for debugging, and developing applications using various languages and frameworks.
Resource balancing comparison: VMware vSphere 6 vs. Red Hat Enterprise Virtua...Principled Technologies
Having ample resources to handle user requests is a necessity of modern virtualization solutions. Allocating and distributing those resources evenly, however, is imperative to the success of your business’s virtualized environment. In our tests, after powering on the other two servers in our three-node cluster and adding resource management features, VMware vSphere 6 improved performance by 183 percent over its baseline configuration of one active server and no resource management features. RHEV 3.5, in contrast, delivered only a 79 percent increase over its baseline. As you design your business’s infrastructure and applications, improvements such as those offered by VMware vSphere 6 DRS and Storage DRS can play a critical role by offering your users better application experiences. Optimized and modern resource management provided by VMware DRS can also help to lower your IT purchase and maintenance costs by reducing the number of servers necessary to run your applications.
Veritas Resiliency Platform 3.2 offers key features that can benefit large en...Principled Technologies
The document compares the disaster recovery features of Veritas Resiliency Platform 3.2 and Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0. It finds that VRP offers several advantages over Zerto for large enterprises, including centralized management, built-in automation tasks, DNS integration, and the ability to group related VMs and prioritize their recovery order. VRP also includes encryption and integrations with third-party replication technologies. The document concludes that for large businesses, VRP may be a better solution than Zerto due to these enterprise-oriented features.
This document outlines a training course on Microsoft Virtualization. The course is divided into two halves, with the first half covering introductory topics like Hyper-V infrastructure and networking, and the second half focusing on advanced topics such as Hyper-V management, high availability, and integration with System Center 2012. Management options for Hyper-V are also discussed, including using Hyper-V Manager, Windows PowerShell, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager for large environments.
Minimizing licensing costs for enterprise applications is vital to organizations looking to keep costs down. When your applications use per-core licensing, choosing higher-performance servers with fewer cores dramatically reduces your software-related spending. The Dell PowerEdge M820 blade solution with Compellent storage could deliver up to $96,236 in savings as compared to a single HP ProLiant BL680c G7 solution, and if consolidating multiple workloads, could deliver even more savings in licensing costs when running Microsoft SQL Server in a virtualized scenario – all while maintaining or exceeding previous performance levels.
VMmark virtualization performance of Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SANPrincipled Technologies
The storage you use for your virtualization solution can be a significant factor in its performance and effectiveness. Two Dell PowerEdge R720 servers, paired with Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SAN, ran 10 VMmark tiles for a total of 80 running VMs and achieved a score of 12.05@10 tiles, making it the top score running VMware ESXi 5.5 of the 32-core server configurations. For enterprises that need excellent virtualization performance, this makes Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SAN a wise investment.
Red Hat JBoss Fuse and TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.3 are both integration platforms that allow messages to be received, processed, and delivered between systems. Red Hat JBoss Fuse uses the open source Apache Camel framework and includes the Red Hat JBoss A-MQ messaging platform. TIBCO's offerings are proprietary and require separate licensing of additional components like messaging platforms. Red Hat provides consistent private, public and hybrid cloud capabilities using OpenShift, while TIBCO's cloud offerings are inconsistent with different technologies. Pricing and licensing models also differ between the open source Red Hat products and TIBCO's proprietary solutions.
WIndows Embedded Compact 2013 – What’s newsMirco Vanini
Windows Embedded Compact 2013 is Microsoft's platform for small-footprint devices requiring real-time performance. It supports ARM and x86 architectures. Development uses Visual Studio 2012 with support for C++, C#, and XAML. Applications can be developed natively or using the .NET Compact Framework. The presentation demonstrated creating virtual devices, connecting to devices for debugging, and developing applications using various languages and frameworks.
Resource balancing comparison: VMware vSphere 6 vs. Red Hat Enterprise Virtua...Principled Technologies
Having ample resources to handle user requests is a necessity of modern virtualization solutions. Allocating and distributing those resources evenly, however, is imperative to the success of your business’s virtualized environment. In our tests, after powering on the other two servers in our three-node cluster and adding resource management features, VMware vSphere 6 improved performance by 183 percent over its baseline configuration of one active server and no resource management features. RHEV 3.5, in contrast, delivered only a 79 percent increase over its baseline. As you design your business’s infrastructure and applications, improvements such as those offered by VMware vSphere 6 DRS and Storage DRS can play a critical role by offering your users better application experiences. Optimized and modern resource management provided by VMware DRS can also help to lower your IT purchase and maintenance costs by reducing the number of servers necessary to run your applications.
Windows Embedded Compact 7 enables developers to build connected embedded devices. It features a DirectShow multimedia pipeline for playback, a Media Library for organizing media content, and a Media Player for local and networked playback. It also supports interaction with DLNA devices to allow sharing and streaming of media across a home network. Compact 7 provides tools and an OS to integrate devices into the Windows ecosystem and enable rich user experiences.
Windows Embedded Compact 7 is an evolution of the Windows Embedded CE platform that provides OEMs tools to build devices faster. It features simplified information access for enterprises, rich connected experiences for consumer devices, and resources for OEMs and developers. Silverlight for Windows Embedded allows creation of intuitive UIs more quickly using XAML. Windows Embedded Compact 7 provides performance, reliability, flexibility, and speed to market value for OEMs developing devices in industries like wind power, automotive, and medical. Evaluation and full product toolkits are available for download starting March 1, 2011.
VBLOCK produces, delivers, and manages IT infrastructure as a service. It provides pre-engineered and integrated compute, storage, and networking solutions from Cisco and EMC. VBLOCK platforms range from small entry-level configurations to large-scale solutions. It aims to accelerate customers' virtualization journeys and help them produce and consume IT as a service through standardized, automated, and policy-driven infrastructure. VBLOCK solutions are supported globally through dedicated joint support labs and follow-the-sun support.
This document provides an overview of an IBM reference architecture for implementing high availability and disaster recovery for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 using AlwaysOn Availability Groups. The solution leverages IBM Flex System x240 compute nodes, Flex System V7000 storage, and Storwize V7000 and V3700 storage. It allows for automatic failover between two nodes in the main data center and manual failover to a node in a remote disaster recovery site, with the possibility of some data loss during asynchronous replication. The document describes the requirements, hardware components, architectural design, and deployment considerations for the solution.
Fusion-io Virtualization Reference Architecture: Deploying Server and Desktop...Principled Technologies
In our testing, Fusion ioControl, Cisco UCS, and VMware technologies created a high-performance, easy-to-configure and manage solution that could handle a demanding mixed application environment consisting of common virtualized business applications and VDI. By prioritizing performance resources with ioControl QoS service levels and policies, we demonstrated that mission-critical and business-critical applications will run at optimum performance levels in a 600 virtual desktop boot storm, or an OLTP heavy-workload use case. By adding Fusion ioTurbine software and Cisco Fusion ioDrive2 into the UCS Blade Server, we further extended OLTP performance with no additional solution footprint. With the Fusion ioControl UI and ioSphere UI integration with vCenter Server, you can manage all aspects of storage, both ioControl and UCS-side Fusion ioDrive flash, from within vCenter console. Fusion ioControl Hybrid Storage and Cisco UCS is a strong solution to meet today’s demanding mixed workloads in your VMware virtualized data center.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) offers significantly improved memory availability and parallel processing performance compared to the 32-bit version. It is optimized for 64-bit processors like Itanium 2, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon. The 64-bit architecture allows for a larger addressable memory space, enhanced parallelism up to 64 processors, and faster data movement. These advantages enable SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) to handle more complex workloads, consolidate databases, and scale processing demands better than the 32-bit version. The document discusses considerations for choosing the 64-bit version and deployment best practices.
Microsoft Virtualization for VMware ProfessionalsEduardo Castro
Esta es la presentación utilizada en el WebCast de Semana de la Nube
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=es-AR&EventID=1032491907&CountryCode=AR
En este evento encontrará una introducción a la virtualización con productos y soluciones Microsoft para los VMware Professionals.
VMmark 2.5.2 virtualization performance of the Dell Storage SC4020 arrayPrincipled Technologies
The Dell Storage SC4020 array paired with Dell PowerEdge R620 servers supported 30 tiles of the VMmark 2.5.2 virtualization benchmark for a total of 240 running virtual machines. The system achieved a score of 31.35 at 30 tiles, indicating it can handle multiple virtualized applications and hypervisor operations while maintaining strong performance. Testing showed the SC4020 provided consistent I/O operations per second around 43,000 and latency mostly under 4 milliseconds. This performance demonstrates the SC4020 is suitable for increasing virtualized workloads supported by solid-state drives without degrading storage performance.
Database performance and memory capacity with the Intel Xeon processor E5-266...Principled Technologies
The Dell PowerEdge M620 offers 24 memory slots, 50 percent more than the 16 slots offered by the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8, which enables the Dell solution to provide greater performance while delivering memory error protection. We found that the Dell PowerEdge M620 solution, built on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600v2 Series, delivered 182.2 percent more database performance and 92.0 percent faster response times than the previous version Intel Xeon E5-2640 processor-based HP ProLiant BL460c Gen 8 solution, while providing 12.5 percent more available memory and error protection. The additional memory capacity of the Dell solution allowed us to engage FRM technologies and still have more overall RAM capacity compared to the 16-slot HP server. The Dell PowerEdge M620 offered maximum memory capacity and protection with Fault Resilient Memory to keep your database workloads running strong and available for your business needs.
The document discusses VCE Vblock systems, which are converged infrastructure solutions for data centers. It notes that maintaining current IT operations accounts for 70% of IT budgets on average. VCE Vblock systems aim to address challenges in IT by providing an integrated platform that can be deployed and managed as a single system, with benefits including five times faster deployment, four times less staff resources needed, and 83 times lower costs compared to traditional infrastructure. The solutions provide tools for converged management and operations across compute, storage, networking and virtualization.
This document provides information on Microsoft's cloud computing solutions and capabilities across four requirements:
1) Help customers solve complex problems and provide deep application insight and management.
2) Offer comprehensive management of heterogeneous IT environments across platforms.
3) Enable customers to build a true cloud platform that goes beyond virtualization.
4) Allow customers to distribute IT across public and private cloud models with common tools.
Microsoft Products: Advanced discusses several Microsoft client applications and server products. It describes specialized Microsoft Office applications like Visio for diagrams and Project for project management. It also outlines enterprise project management solutions using Project Server. Finally, it discusses security products like Forefront and system management offerings within the System Center family.
Learn about IBM SmartCloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 VDI Reference architecture. This document describes the reference architecture for IBM SmartCloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012. For more information on IBM Systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
The Dell PowerEdge VRTX is an all-inclusive platform, suitable for rapid deployment of a virtual environment, such as Citrix XenDesktop 7.5. The integrated components of the VRTX means your business has a centralized management console for the necessary data center components that support VDI environments. We found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX and XenDesktop set up, configured, and deployed VDI users easily. The addition of Dell Wyse terminals demonstrates how your end-users can access your XenDesktop VDI environment with efficient hardware and little administrative effort. The combination of Dell PowerEdge VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 7.5 can offer a unified, efficient, and simple enterprise-value VDI solution for your business, but without the resources and commitment need for supporting an enterprise data center.
Notable Changes In Windows 7 And Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1Timothy Jeffries
This document summarizes notable changes in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. Key changes include the addition of Dynamic Memory and Microsoft RemoteFX features for Windows Server 2008 R2 to improve virtualization capabilities. The document also outlines minor changes for Windows 7 related to printing, audio devices, and folder restoration. It provides information on prerequisites, installation methods, and concludes by stating SP1 represents Microsoft's commitment to ongoing quality improvements.
VDI performance and price comparison: AMD-based Open Compute 3.0 server vs. H...Principled Technologies
Any organization using virtual desktop infrastructure can benefit by investing in servers that deliver high performance at a reasonable price. In our test, the AMD-based Open Compute 3.0 server hosted a few more virtual desktop sessions that the HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server did, while costing less than half as much.
The document outlines a plan to upgrade a customer's content management system from SDL Tridion 2013 to SDL Web 8. It discusses the customer's current CMS setup, reasons for upgrading to Web 8, and how the vendor can help through a proof of concept migration. The plan includes setting up servers for the new system, migrating content and databases, testing functionality, and addressing potential challenges in under 2 months to learn lessons for a full upgrade.
TECHNICAL BRIEF▶ Backup Exec 15 Blueprint for Large InstallationsSymantec
This Backup Exec Blueprint presentation includes example diagrams that contain objects that represent applications and platforms from other companies such as Microsoft and VMware. These diagrams may or may not match or resemble actual implementations found in end user environments. Any likeness or similarity to actual end user environments is completely by coincidence.
The goal of the diagrams included in this blueprint presentation is not to recommend specific ways in which to implement applications and platforms from other companies such as Microsoft and VMware but rather to illustrate Backup Exec best practices only.
For guidelines and best practices on installing and configuring applications and platforms from other companies, please refer to best practice documentation and other resources provided by those companies.
The document describes how Tideway Foundation can help populate a CMDB by regularly discovering configuration items (CIs) like servers, software, and dependencies across the IT environment. It captures this information and automatically transfers it to populate and maintain an accurate, up-to-date view in the BMC Atrium CMDB with minimal manual effort. Key benefits include accelerated CMDB deployment, improved data quality through regular updates, and generation of impact analysis reports for change management. The Tideway adapter transfers discovery data to Atrium using its Java API. Example outputs demonstrate the level of configuration data captured for servers and how dependencies are mapped into business services views that can be viewed in both Foundation and Atrium.
Competitive advantages-of-hyper-v-server-2012-over-v mware-v-sphere-hypervisorI-r Papa
The document compares the scalability, performance, and features of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 and the VMware vSphere Hypervisor. It finds that Hyper-V Server 2012 offers significantly greater scalability across hosts, VMs, and clusters. It supports larger host processors and memory, more VMs per host, and larger cluster sizes than the vSphere Hypervisor. The vSphere Hypervisor also imposes restrictions like capping memory at 32GB that limit its ability to run demanding workloads at scale, requiring customers to purchase additional vSphere editions.
Exploring the Upgrade from VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage 6 5 to 6 7Global Knowledge Training
VMware vSphere: ICM 6.7 is the foundation for most other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center. The recent update from 6.5 brings important new features and enhancements. Learn more about vSphere Client, vCenter Server Converge Tool, Enhancements for HCI and vSAN and vMotion.
https://ter.li/vm9888
Windows Embedded Compact 7 enables developers to build connected embedded devices. It features a DirectShow multimedia pipeline for playback, a Media Library for organizing media content, and a Media Player for local and networked playback. It also supports interaction with DLNA devices to allow sharing and streaming of media across a home network. Compact 7 provides tools and an OS to integrate devices into the Windows ecosystem and enable rich user experiences.
Windows Embedded Compact 7 is an evolution of the Windows Embedded CE platform that provides OEMs tools to build devices faster. It features simplified information access for enterprises, rich connected experiences for consumer devices, and resources for OEMs and developers. Silverlight for Windows Embedded allows creation of intuitive UIs more quickly using XAML. Windows Embedded Compact 7 provides performance, reliability, flexibility, and speed to market value for OEMs developing devices in industries like wind power, automotive, and medical. Evaluation and full product toolkits are available for download starting March 1, 2011.
VBLOCK produces, delivers, and manages IT infrastructure as a service. It provides pre-engineered and integrated compute, storage, and networking solutions from Cisco and EMC. VBLOCK platforms range from small entry-level configurations to large-scale solutions. It aims to accelerate customers' virtualization journeys and help them produce and consume IT as a service through standardized, automated, and policy-driven infrastructure. VBLOCK solutions are supported globally through dedicated joint support labs and follow-the-sun support.
This document provides an overview of an IBM reference architecture for implementing high availability and disaster recovery for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 using AlwaysOn Availability Groups. The solution leverages IBM Flex System x240 compute nodes, Flex System V7000 storage, and Storwize V7000 and V3700 storage. It allows for automatic failover between two nodes in the main data center and manual failover to a node in a remote disaster recovery site, with the possibility of some data loss during asynchronous replication. The document describes the requirements, hardware components, architectural design, and deployment considerations for the solution.
Fusion-io Virtualization Reference Architecture: Deploying Server and Desktop...Principled Technologies
In our testing, Fusion ioControl, Cisco UCS, and VMware technologies created a high-performance, easy-to-configure and manage solution that could handle a demanding mixed application environment consisting of common virtualized business applications and VDI. By prioritizing performance resources with ioControl QoS service levels and policies, we demonstrated that mission-critical and business-critical applications will run at optimum performance levels in a 600 virtual desktop boot storm, or an OLTP heavy-workload use case. By adding Fusion ioTurbine software and Cisco Fusion ioDrive2 into the UCS Blade Server, we further extended OLTP performance with no additional solution footprint. With the Fusion ioControl UI and ioSphere UI integration with vCenter Server, you can manage all aspects of storage, both ioControl and UCS-side Fusion ioDrive flash, from within vCenter console. Fusion ioControl Hybrid Storage and Cisco UCS is a strong solution to meet today’s demanding mixed workloads in your VMware virtualized data center.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) offers significantly improved memory availability and parallel processing performance compared to the 32-bit version. It is optimized for 64-bit processors like Itanium 2, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon. The 64-bit architecture allows for a larger addressable memory space, enhanced parallelism up to 64 processors, and faster data movement. These advantages enable SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) to handle more complex workloads, consolidate databases, and scale processing demands better than the 32-bit version. The document discusses considerations for choosing the 64-bit version and deployment best practices.
Microsoft Virtualization for VMware ProfessionalsEduardo Castro
Esta es la presentación utilizada en el WebCast de Semana de la Nube
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=es-AR&EventID=1032491907&CountryCode=AR
En este evento encontrará una introducción a la virtualización con productos y soluciones Microsoft para los VMware Professionals.
VMmark 2.5.2 virtualization performance of the Dell Storage SC4020 arrayPrincipled Technologies
The Dell Storage SC4020 array paired with Dell PowerEdge R620 servers supported 30 tiles of the VMmark 2.5.2 virtualization benchmark for a total of 240 running virtual machines. The system achieved a score of 31.35 at 30 tiles, indicating it can handle multiple virtualized applications and hypervisor operations while maintaining strong performance. Testing showed the SC4020 provided consistent I/O operations per second around 43,000 and latency mostly under 4 milliseconds. This performance demonstrates the SC4020 is suitable for increasing virtualized workloads supported by solid-state drives without degrading storage performance.
Database performance and memory capacity with the Intel Xeon processor E5-266...Principled Technologies
The Dell PowerEdge M620 offers 24 memory slots, 50 percent more than the 16 slots offered by the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8, which enables the Dell solution to provide greater performance while delivering memory error protection. We found that the Dell PowerEdge M620 solution, built on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600v2 Series, delivered 182.2 percent more database performance and 92.0 percent faster response times than the previous version Intel Xeon E5-2640 processor-based HP ProLiant BL460c Gen 8 solution, while providing 12.5 percent more available memory and error protection. The additional memory capacity of the Dell solution allowed us to engage FRM technologies and still have more overall RAM capacity compared to the 16-slot HP server. The Dell PowerEdge M620 offered maximum memory capacity and protection with Fault Resilient Memory to keep your database workloads running strong and available for your business needs.
The document discusses VCE Vblock systems, which are converged infrastructure solutions for data centers. It notes that maintaining current IT operations accounts for 70% of IT budgets on average. VCE Vblock systems aim to address challenges in IT by providing an integrated platform that can be deployed and managed as a single system, with benefits including five times faster deployment, four times less staff resources needed, and 83 times lower costs compared to traditional infrastructure. The solutions provide tools for converged management and operations across compute, storage, networking and virtualization.
This document provides information on Microsoft's cloud computing solutions and capabilities across four requirements:
1) Help customers solve complex problems and provide deep application insight and management.
2) Offer comprehensive management of heterogeneous IT environments across platforms.
3) Enable customers to build a true cloud platform that goes beyond virtualization.
4) Allow customers to distribute IT across public and private cloud models with common tools.
Microsoft Products: Advanced discusses several Microsoft client applications and server products. It describes specialized Microsoft Office applications like Visio for diagrams and Project for project management. It also outlines enterprise project management solutions using Project Server. Finally, it discusses security products like Forefront and system management offerings within the System Center family.
Learn about IBM SmartCloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 VDI Reference architecture. This document describes the reference architecture for IBM SmartCloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012. For more information on IBM Systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
The Dell PowerEdge VRTX is an all-inclusive platform, suitable for rapid deployment of a virtual environment, such as Citrix XenDesktop 7.5. The integrated components of the VRTX means your business has a centralized management console for the necessary data center components that support VDI environments. We found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX and XenDesktop set up, configured, and deployed VDI users easily. The addition of Dell Wyse terminals demonstrates how your end-users can access your XenDesktop VDI environment with efficient hardware and little administrative effort. The combination of Dell PowerEdge VRTX and Citrix XenDesktop 7.5 can offer a unified, efficient, and simple enterprise-value VDI solution for your business, but without the resources and commitment need for supporting an enterprise data center.
Notable Changes In Windows 7 And Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1Timothy Jeffries
This document summarizes notable changes in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. Key changes include the addition of Dynamic Memory and Microsoft RemoteFX features for Windows Server 2008 R2 to improve virtualization capabilities. The document also outlines minor changes for Windows 7 related to printing, audio devices, and folder restoration. It provides information on prerequisites, installation methods, and concludes by stating SP1 represents Microsoft's commitment to ongoing quality improvements.
VDI performance and price comparison: AMD-based Open Compute 3.0 server vs. H...Principled Technologies
Any organization using virtual desktop infrastructure can benefit by investing in servers that deliver high performance at a reasonable price. In our test, the AMD-based Open Compute 3.0 server hosted a few more virtual desktop sessions that the HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server did, while costing less than half as much.
The document outlines a plan to upgrade a customer's content management system from SDL Tridion 2013 to SDL Web 8. It discusses the customer's current CMS setup, reasons for upgrading to Web 8, and how the vendor can help through a proof of concept migration. The plan includes setting up servers for the new system, migrating content and databases, testing functionality, and addressing potential challenges in under 2 months to learn lessons for a full upgrade.
TECHNICAL BRIEF▶ Backup Exec 15 Blueprint for Large InstallationsSymantec
This Backup Exec Blueprint presentation includes example diagrams that contain objects that represent applications and platforms from other companies such as Microsoft and VMware. These diagrams may or may not match or resemble actual implementations found in end user environments. Any likeness or similarity to actual end user environments is completely by coincidence.
The goal of the diagrams included in this blueprint presentation is not to recommend specific ways in which to implement applications and platforms from other companies such as Microsoft and VMware but rather to illustrate Backup Exec best practices only.
For guidelines and best practices on installing and configuring applications and platforms from other companies, please refer to best practice documentation and other resources provided by those companies.
The document describes how Tideway Foundation can help populate a CMDB by regularly discovering configuration items (CIs) like servers, software, and dependencies across the IT environment. It captures this information and automatically transfers it to populate and maintain an accurate, up-to-date view in the BMC Atrium CMDB with minimal manual effort. Key benefits include accelerated CMDB deployment, improved data quality through regular updates, and generation of impact analysis reports for change management. The Tideway adapter transfers discovery data to Atrium using its Java API. Example outputs demonstrate the level of configuration data captured for servers and how dependencies are mapped into business services views that can be viewed in both Foundation and Atrium.
Competitive advantages-of-hyper-v-server-2012-over-v mware-v-sphere-hypervisorI-r Papa
The document compares the scalability, performance, and features of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 and the VMware vSphere Hypervisor. It finds that Hyper-V Server 2012 offers significantly greater scalability across hosts, VMs, and clusters. It supports larger host processors and memory, more VMs per host, and larger cluster sizes than the vSphere Hypervisor. The vSphere Hypervisor also imposes restrictions like capping memory at 32GB that limit its ability to run demanding workloads at scale, requiring customers to purchase additional vSphere editions.
Exploring the Upgrade from VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage 6 5 to 6 7Global Knowledge Training
VMware vSphere: ICM 6.7 is the foundation for most other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center. The recent update from 6.5 brings important new features and enhancements. Learn more about vSphere Client, vCenter Server Converge Tool, Enhancements for HCI and vSAN and vMotion.
https://ter.li/vm9888
Competitive advantages-of-windows-server-hyper-v-over-v mware-v-sphereMotty Ben Atia
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V provides significant scalability, performance, and density advantages over VMware vSphere 5.1. Key advantages include support for up to 64 virtual processors and 1TB of memory per virtual machine, 320 logical processors per host, and 1,024 active virtual machines per host. It also supports larger cluster sizes of up to 64 nodes and 8,000 virtual machines per cluster. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V also has enhanced storage capabilities like support for virtual fiber channel, 4KB disk sectors, and larger 64TB virtual disk sizes.
Presentation step into virtualization and transform your itsolarisyourep
This document discusses virtualization and VMware solutions. It begins with an overview of common SMB business challenges like growing revenue and containing costs. It then discusses the IT challenges that result from trends like increased mobile devices and cloud adoption. The rest of the document discusses VMware and its virtualization platform vSphere. It provides information on getting started with vSphere Hypervisor and managing virtual infrastructure. Finally, it discusses additional resources for learning more about virtualization and VMware solutions.
This document provides a summary of a white paper about implementing the server virtualization technology Hyper-V. It describes how Hyper-V can: reduce physical server infrastructure needs and costs by consolidating workloads; preserve performance of business services; improve backup/recovery reliability and simplify disaster recovery; and help IT manage applications that support core business operations. The document then provides more details about what server virtualization and Hyper-V are, and how Hyper-V can reduce costs by increasing server utilization rates compared to physical servers.
VMware provides several technology extensions for ISVs to extend their product capabilities in virtual and cloud environments. These include vSphere client plugins, SRM SRA adapters, VAAI plugins, and vCO plugins. These integration points allow ISVs to integrate their solutions into the VMware ecosystem to deliver value to customers through increased efficiency, reduced costs, improved performance, and ensuring SLAs are met.
This document discusses migrating virtual machines from VMware to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. It finds that over 70% of customers are considering using multiple virtualization platforms. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers several benefits compared to VMware, including open source flexibility, industry-leading performance, robust enterprise features, and lower costs. The document outlines the migration process, which involves assessment, preparation, evaluation, execution and testing phases. Tools are available to automate the conversion of VMware VMs to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization format.
Win Connections Technical Overview (Harold W)Harold Wong
The document summarizes new features in Windows Server 2008 R2 including improvements to Active Directory, Windows PowerShell, group policy, remote desktop services, file classification, and power management. It highlights technologies like DirectAccess and BranchCache that enable better integration with Windows 7. The presentation provides overviews and demos of Active Directory Administrative Center, Best Practices Analyzers, Windows PowerShell, group policy improvements, and other new capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2.
Win Connections Technical Overview ( Harold W)Harold Wong
The document summarizes new features in Windows Server 2008 R2 including improvements to Active Directory, Windows PowerShell, group policy, file classification, remote desktop services, and power management. It highlights technologies like DirectAccess and BranchCache that enable better integration with Windows 7. The presentation provides overviews and demos of Active Directory Administrative Center, Best Practices Analyzers, Windows PowerShell, core parking for power savings, and Group Policy starter GPOs. It encourages attendees to learn more about Windows Server 2008 R2 through technical resources, community sites, hands-on training, and evaluation downloads.
This document provides best practices for running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V virtualization environment on Windows Server 2008. It discusses storage configuration recommendations, test methodologies used to evaluate performance overhead and scalability, and results from testing various SQL Server workloads including OLTP, reporting, and database operations. The testing showed that SQL Server 2008 can provide stable performance within a Hyper-V guest virtual machine when the workload is within the capacity of the virtual machine.
Material de la Charla de Virtualizacion de la Comunidad Windows del 10 de Setiembre del 2009
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
http://comunidadwindows.org
ecastro@grupoasesor.net
Ing. Eduardo Castro Martinez, PhD
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
http://mswindowscr.org
http://comunidadwindows.org
This document discusses why VMware is the best choice for server virtualization over other solutions. It provides several key advantages of VMware:
1) VMware vSphere is the most trusted virtualization platform due to its secure and reliable hypervisor architecture that is purpose-built for virtualization, unlike competitors that rely on general-purpose operating systems.
2) vSphere is proven to support business-critical applications requiring high availability and performance through features like HA, DR, and workload optimization.
3) vSphere delivers the lowest total cost of ownership through reduced hardware costs, simple management, and automation that decreases operational expenses.
VMworld 2013: Virtualization Rookie or Pro: Why vSphere is Your Best ChoiceVMworld
VMworld 2013
Eric Horschman, VMware
Jeff Margolese, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Running Head VIRTUALIZATION 1VIRTUALIZATION 1Virt.docxrtodd599
Running Head: VIRTUALIZATION
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Janella Lawton
September 7, 2018
Dr. Reddy Urimindi
CIS 512
Virtualization
Information technology systems are growing, and their use is increasing significantly in many technology organizations. An example of an IT technology that is heavily embraced by organizations is virtualization. This technology involves the development of a virtual rather than an actual representation of the version of the product such as a server, operating system, a network resource system and a device for storing data. Virtualization allows the user to operate more servers as well as multiple applications which significantly improves the efficiency of data centers. It becomes easy to deploy workloads in a faster more convenient way which increases opportunities and automating operations. This makes the daily operations smooth and easy to manage. Also, the cost of running operations is reduced as you operate these activities. The key characteristics of virtualization include; Isolation, encapsulation, hardware independence and partitioning. The software can divide the resources and the system between the identified virtual systems (Bull & Matthews, 2016). The performance of organizations can be preserved using more advanced and updated resources controls. Information technology management for business has improved business operations and creates opportunities through server virtualization.
Top Three Brands of Virtualization Software Available
The main reason most businesses are embracing virtualization is due to consolidations. These are very effective strategies that allow the business managers to stretch the server to its maximum capacity using the installation of different types of software on one unit of hardware. Another remarkable reason that business managers go for virtualization for their IT departments is that a virtual machine enhances technology in an energy efficient way compared to the dedicated servers. Also, too many virtual servers can be chosen rather than having too many dedicated servers which will still save the operational cost by being energy efficient.
The first virtual software available in the market and used by the information technology departments of businesses is VMware which is supported by their vSphere/ESXi.The product comes in different packages of free editions and that of five commercial editions. VMwaredominated the business market when it designed innovative features like the Storage vMotion, vMotion, memory overcommitment and Fault Tolerance (Lee, 2014). VSphere allows its users to virtualize applications that can operate on stronger computers and applications that can operate on any regular computers.
The second virtual software that is available in the market for businesses is Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. This software always emerges among the top three competing with vSphere and XenServer. This software offers clients a reliable and flex.
This document discusses Microsoft's virtualization strategy and products. It highlights key benefits of virtualization like cost reduction through server consolidation, increased efficiency, and business agility. Microsoft presents Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager as solutions that offer high availability, rapid provisioning, management of both physical and virtual environments across hypervisors, and lower costs compared to alternatives. Customer case studies demonstrate how virtualization can virtualize various workloads and reduce costs.
Most medium and large sized IT organizations have deployed several generation of virtualized servers, becoming more comfortable with the performance and reliability with each deployment. As IT organizations started to increase VM density, they hit the limits of Hyper-V software and server memory, CPU, and I/O.
A new VM Engine is now available and this documents describes how it can help IT organizations maximize use of their servers running Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012.
PHD Virtual Backup v7.0 is a backup and recovery solution for virtual environments including Hyper-V. The new v7 architecture features a presentation role for management, and engine roles that perform backups across Hyper-V, vSphere, and XenServer hypervisors. Installation involves deploying lightweight PHD Hyper-V services to each host and a Virtual Backup Appliance. Version 7.0 is free to use with optional support contracts, allowing users to upgrade features in future releases. The presentation demonstrated PHD Virtual Backup's capabilities for backing up and recovering Hyper-V VMs.
Windows server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5Tũi Wichets
The document compares the scalability, performance, and storage capabilities of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 RC versus VMware vSphere 5.0. Key points include:
- Hyper-V 2012 supports more virtual CPUs, memory, and VMs per host than ESXi 5.0 or vSphere 5.0
- Hyper-V provides greater storage capabilities like larger virtual disks, native 4K sector support, and offloaded data transfer without additional licensing costs.
- VMware restricts capabilities in ESXi 5.0 and charges more for features in vSphere 5.0 that are included in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.
The document discusses a customer's needs around managing their private and public clouds with a single solution, having over a dozen management tools from various vendors that do not integrate well, and wanting predictable spending on datacenter management; it then discusses how a solution can provide a single view of private and public clouds, consolidate management tools into a common solution, and provide predictable spending on datacenter management.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
Infrastructure Challenges in Scaling RAG with Custom AI modelsZilliz
Building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems with open-source and custom AI models is a complex task. This talk explores the challenges in productionizing RAG systems, including retrieval performance, response synthesis, and evaluation. We’ll discuss how to leverage open-source models like text embeddings, language models, and custom fine-tuned models to enhance RAG performance. Additionally, we’ll cover how BentoML can help orchestrate and scale these AI components efficiently, ensuring seamless deployment and management of RAG systems in the cloud.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.