10 septembre 2009

L'AMD Opteron 6000 et ses douze cœurs sont fonctionnels, voyons les premiers benchs et le premier overclocking de ce nouveau processeur ! AMD devrait introduire sa nouvelle plateforme « Maranello » au premier trimestre 2010. Au coeur de celle-ci, on retrouvera les Opteron 6000 « Magny-Cours ». Exploitant un nouveau socket, le G34, ils contiendront deux dies « Instanbul » côte à côte, connectés via des liens HyperTransport à 6,4 GT/s. Un contrôleur mémoire DDR3 à quatre canaux sera présent aux côtés des 12 Mo de mémoire cache L3 de... [Lire la suite]

Mike Laverick has just announced that he made his book available as a Free Download from Lulu. That’s a great move from Mike. As after VMworld he is in early stage of writing the upcoming version which will be updated for  the VMware SRM 4.0 product. VMware SRM is currently in beta. Great possibility for everyone you guys to explore through 298 pages this amazing technology and ultimate recovery scenarios. For your information, as Mike said on his blog, you can still get a printed copy, for almost no cost (just paper and... [Lire la suite]

Ok, I already posted a guide about how to configure Openfiler Linux for free as a shared storage for your Virtual Infrastructure. If you’re not into linux, you can just try Starwind for free too…. (up to 2 TB of Data !!). Here is a PDF guide (it’s for ESX 3.5 but the princip is the same for ESXi 4. You must create a virtual disk storage which will became a iSCSI Target. Thist target will then be presented to your ESX server as a shared storage. You’ll be able to setup Starwind iSCSI SAN in only about 10 minuts. In the Free... [Lire la suite]

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer le démarrage de la 2ème édition des Microsoft Days qui se dérouleront sur toute la France du 6 octobre au 4 novembre 2009 ! Les Microsoft Days sont la réunion sur 2 jours des Rencontres Partenaires 360°, des Rencontres Techniques (RT) pour nos audiences IT Pros & Devs et des Rendez-vous des Décideurs Informatiques (RDI) pour notre audience ITDM. Cette édition sera placée sous le signe exceptionnel des lancements conjoints de Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange Server 2010 et... [Lire la suite]

Welcome to Exchange Server 2010! Exchange Server 2010 continues the tradition of providing more and more Messaging features for the enterprise, and at the same time, significantly lowering mailbox associated costs. This new version brings a slew of features to your messaging and communication infrastructure such as: Archiving, Compliance, High Availability, Enhanced Messaging experiences from various entry points, and so on. Naturally, with a set of new features, comes the requirement for managing these features. As you are all... [Lire la suite]

I am sitting in the VMworld session “TA3880 - Head-To-Head Comparison: VMware vSphere and ESX vs. Hyper-V and XenServer”.  It is interesting to listen to VMware’s perspective on this. One point that they have raised – which I have heard before – is that VMware ESX has better scalability than Hyper-V because they run their drivers in the hypervisor, while we run our drivers in the parent partition.  VMware usually then continues to say that they tried this approach (drivers in the parent partition, or the “service console”... [Lire la suite]

I have been inundated by people here at VMworld 2009 with tons of questions on Hyper-V and who want to see demos of Hyper-V. This blog post attempts to put together a list material for folks. Given the large amount of material this list is only a snapshot but one which will provide you enough to get started. First off there is a huge amount of technical articles, documentation, whitepapers, case studies, API documentation that’s available. Your start point should be the Virtualization page here. That site provides links to... [Lire la suite]

Réussissez votre déploiement vers Windows 7 et Windows Server 2008 R2 !! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-a0c1-fe871c461a89&displaylang=en&tm Deploy Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with the newly released Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. MDT is the recommended process and toolset for automating desktop and server deployment. MDT provides you with the following benefits: Unified tools and processes required for desktop and server deployment in a common deployment... [Lire la suite]