מאת: עידן יונה, מנהל תחום טכני סיסטם סנטר במגזר המקצועי (נס ישראל) אחת המשימות העיקריות שמוטלות על צוותי ה-IT היא ניצול מקסימלי של משאבי המחשוב העומדים לרשותם. ההיגיון פשוט: אף אחד לא מתכוון לאשר רכישה של שרתים או אחסון נוסף, עד שהוא יהיה בטוח שהציוד הקיים מנוצל במלואו. בעזרת שרתי הניהול של מיקרוסופט ממשפחת System Center ניתן להגיע לניצול מקסימלי של יכולות המחשוב, במיוחד כאשר מדובר במכונות וירטואליות. אבל פעמים רבות כשאני מגיע לארגונים, אני מגלה שלא תמיד הם מודעים ל PRO tips, אחד הכלים המתקדמים של...

With this release you will be able to do: Fabric Management Hyper-V and Cluster Lifecycle Management – Deploy Hyper-V to bare metal server, create Hyper-V clusters, orchestrate patching of a Hyper-V Cluster Third Party Virtualization Platforms - Add and Manage Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX Hosts and Clusters Network Management – Manage IP Address Pools, MAC Address Pools and Load Balancers Storage Management – Classify storage, Manage Storage Pools and LUNs Resource Optimization Dynamic Optimization...

שלום לכולם, רציתי לעדכן שהשנה התבקשתי להעביר בטקאד את ההרצאות הבאות: 1. Opalis IT Process Automation - Introduction & Technical Overview (יום שני ב-11:30) – מעבר על מוצר ה-Run Book Automation החדש שרכשה מיקרוסופט לפני שנה ונכלל היום בחבילת System Center. בהרצאה אני אראה איך אפשר להשתמש ב-Opalis כ-"מוח הניהול" המרכזי ולהגדיר בו Workflows שיאפשרו לדוגמא למשתמש קצה למלא Change Request בפורטל ה-Helpdesk שבעקבותיו ירוץ תהליך אוטומטי מורכב של יצירת סביבה וירטואלית שלמה (כולל הגדרות ב-SAN...

  System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM) is a comprehensive management solution for the virtualized data center, enabling increased physical server utilization, centralized management of virtual machine infrastructure, and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator, delegated administrator, and authorized end users. VMM 2008 can manage hosts that are running Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, Virtual Server 2005 R2, and VMware ESX through VirtualCenter Server. Recently...

You can now download VMM 2008 R2 Beta from https://connect.microsoft.com . I’ve already tested it with Live Migration and it work great! (we had a demonstration for it at a Municipality Convention in Jerusalem recently) so take the time to play with it a little. What's New in VMM 2008 R2 Beta System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM) is a comprehensive management solution for managing virtualized infrastructure running on Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, Virtual Server 2005 R2 and VMware...

Hi, this will be a quick review about 2 approaches for Hypervisor implementation which is the basis to any part of an enterprise virtualization server both MS or other.. this is a high technical review and I’ll try not to dig really deep and yet explain the basics. OK ! so there are 2 parts of virtualization platform before even getting in to Hypervisor and its important to understand both, you all know the products so I’ll be rapid. VMM – Virtual machine monitor is the part of the product that actually...

Microsoft has just announced the availability of Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer 2008 (VMMCA). Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Configuration Analyzer (VMMCA) is a diagnostic tool that you can use to evaluate important configuration settings for computers that either are serving or might serve Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) roles or other VMM functions. To download VMMCA 2008 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=02d83950-c03d-454e-803b-96d1c1d5be24&displaylang...

Hi All, in this post I want to write about SCVMM or how the “natives” call it “System Center Virtual Machine Manager” link to product in MS sites here . a lot can be told about VMM (short for SCVMM 2008) , we can sit here and read about how it is a competitor to VMware Virtual Center and how VMM is better for you then Virtual Center.. I think the link I gave to VMM MS site will defiantly cover it.. so I don't really want to write to you about it, I do want to concentrate on several properties...

I had the opportunity today (16.9.08) to participate in Microsoft’s getVIRTUALnow event, and to present the session " Physical and Virtual Server Management " I presented my take on data center management, which involves automating management tasks in response to system\application states. It was impressive to see the number of vendors that were present in the event. Microsoft seem to be quick in building the required ecosystem of partners that will push it's Virtualization offerings...

Come & visit our booth at the "Get Virtual Now" conference at Avenue Airport City. Amit Gatenyo will deliver a lecture about the advantages of Hyper-V for you organization with emphasis on management. At our booth you can see the Hyper-V technology in action via our presentations, and learn more about how Dario IT Solutions can assist your organization's IT needs. Hyper-V Capabilities Demo