6 septembre 2010

Most people I know who have spent a lot of time with Hyper-V have had the experience of accidentally taking too much memory away from the parent partition.  This happens when they start too many virtual machines – and all of a sudden the performance and responsiveness of the parent partition goes down significantly. The response from people who hit this is usually to stop the last virtual machine that they started, to reduce its memory, and then start it up again. This solution has worked in the past – but is no longer an... [Lire la suite]

In 2010 SP1 RTM, nothing has been changed in the DAG options that has been exposed in the console compared to SP1 Beta. Exchange Team has exposed more options related to Database Availability Group (DAG) in 2010 SP1 RTM Console compared to 2010 RTM. In the RTM version of Exchange 2010, IP address for a DAG has to be set manually using the shell and this was one of the option many exchange admins (who are not comfortable with the shell) wanted to see in the console. Guess what? More options, including setting a static IP address... [Lire la suite]

If you were using static RPC ports for Address Book service in 2010 RTM, you will notice that you can't connect to the address book after the SP1 upgrade. The issue is that the 2010 RTM way of assigning a static port for address book service has been changed in 2010 SP1. In 2010 RTM, the static port was assigned by editing the microsoft.exchange.addressbook.service.exe.config file in the Bin directory. In SP1 RTM, Exchange Product Group has moved this option to the registry, in line with assigning a static port for the RPC Client... [Lire la suite]

Recently released on the PowerCLI site there has been an updated version of the PowerCLI Poster, this time the PowerCLI Documentation and Engineering teams have done a great job of updating it into a readable poster and have even added my quick reference guide to it to make it an awesome document. Included in this poster you will not only find every cmdlet collated into some nice readable sections but also code examples and further PowerCLI and PowerShell resources, download the pdf from below: ... [Lire la suite]

L’information circule sur la toile depuis hier soir. Intel serait sur le point d’acquérir Neocleus, petite start-up spécialisée dans la virtualisation du poste de travail, créée en 2008. Neocleus a en effet annoncé la nouvelle à travers un billet sur son blog, mais l’a immédiatement retiré.Cependant, sur Google, le titre de ce billet y figure encore…”This is an exciting developpement for the employees and management team of Neoclus”. L’information est probablement vraie, sinon pourquoi Neocleus l’aurait-il écrit sur son blog ?... [Lire la suite]

Philippe Gillet *, expert reconnu dans la virtualisation et Directeur de la SSII Virtuali (voir sa bio plus bas) nous livre en exclusivité pour www.virtuanews.fr son opinion sur les annonces View 4.5 et Horizon, et plus généralement sur la stratégie de VMware déroulée hier lors du keynote d’ouverture de VMworld 2010. Une belle démonstration, il faut le dire ! VMware View 4.5 et projet Horizon : VMware souhaite il éliminer Microsoft de l’équation ? Lors des Keynotes de ce mardi au VMworld, VMware a levé le voile sur le projet... [Lire la suite]

VMworld 2010 a ouvert ses portes à San Francisco, avec le keynote attendu du CEO Paul Maritz, et qui cette fois, a également été accompagné du keynote du CTO Dr Stephen Herrod. Du deux en un, pour l’un des keynotes les plus riches jamais vus à VMworld !!! Parenthèse, Rick Jackson, CMO de VMware, a démarré la session avec un chiffre qui laisse rêveur : l’édition 2010 enregistre pas moins de 17 021 participants. Digne d’un Oracle World…. Les nouveautés de View Mais revenons au présent. La première étape de cette nouvelle vision ?... [Lire la suite]

Last week the network monitoring and management company SolarWinds announced its second free tool for VMware administrators: VM Console. The first one, VM Monitor, monitors ESX hosts health, providing statistics about the virtual machines state (vCPUs, vRAM, vNICs) and best practices thresholds to recognize performance degradation. This new product instead allows administrators to view, search for, take a snapshot, shutdown and restart the VMs without any interaction with vCenter. SolarWinds published a video to demonstrate... [Lire la suite]