23 septembre 2013
Les nouvelles fonctionnalités de vSphere 5.5
Le VMworld US débute avec l’annonce de VMware vSphere 5.5 et ses nouvelles fonctionnalités
Support for VMDK files of max. 62 TB filesize (x34) for VMFS5 and NFS
No change in the pricing of vSphere editions.
4 new features: AppHA*, Reliable Memory, Flash Read Cache and Big Data Extensions
Latency-sensitivity feature for applications like very high performance computing and stock trading apps
vSphere Hypervisor (free) has no physical memory limit anymore
Maximum RAM per host 4 TB (x2)
Virtual CPUs per host 4096 (x2)
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06 juin 2013
What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
On TechEd Windows Server 2012 R2 is announced. Here are some highlights of “Hyper-V – What’s New in Windows Serve 2012 R2” session (MDC-B330):
Windows Azure IaaS compatibility—Windows Azure IaaS uses exactly the same virtualization as Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. So VM’s on-premise can be moved to Azure (Iaas) without problems
Generation 2 Virtual Machines (VMs). In the generation 2 VM are many emulated devices removed and it boots from virtual SCSI or synthetic network adapters. In earlier releases the VM booted from... [Lire la suite]
30 janvier 2013
Top 5 Windows 8 Enterprise Features
I've already written a fair amount about Windows 8 and my experiences with Microsoft's latest client OS, and have presented some reasons why you should and shouldn't deploy it. Of all the various editions of Windows 8, the one that admins should be most concerned about is Windows 8 Enterprise, the volume-licensed version of Windows 8 that most organizations with more than five PCs will likely deploy. If you want to deploy Windows 8 Enterprise, you'll also need to be a Microsoft Software Assurance (SA)
--> please see the rest on... [Lire la suite]
21 avril 2011
What’s In Exchange 2010 SP2?…
Tony Redmond explains his TEC experience in his blog and he mentions about the updates in Exchange 2010 SP2 that was discussed in the conference. He writes,
**** In terms of what’s next for Exchange, Kevin (Exchange GM) briefly talked about features that will appear in Exchange 2010 SP2 later this year. Three major updates were discussed:
Address Book Policies (ABPs), also known as “GAL segmentation”. This feature is described for Exchange 2007 in a white paper but Microsoft knew that the approach taken (ACLs) would break in the... [Lire la suite]
12 août 2010
Six dossiers complets sur la fonctionnalité Dynamic Memory du SP1 de 2008 R2
C’est certainement la fonctionnalité qui fait couler le plus d’encre lorsque l’on évoque le futur Service Pack 1 pour Windows Server 2008 R2. En effet ce prochain SP très orienté virtualisation va apporter un grand changement dans Hyper-V puisqu’il va permettre l’allocation dynamique de mémoire aux machines virtuelles.
Pour rappel, il va désormais être possible d’allouer non plus une taille fixe de RAM nécessaire à votre VM mais une fourchette, allant du minimum requis pour démarrer cette VM à la quantité maximal de RAM qu’elle... [Lire la suite]
14 avril 2010
Exchange 2010 SP1 Personal Archive Mailboxes on Separate Databases
Exchange 2010 introduced the ability to move your personal archive mailbox to a separate mailbox database. This was a common request due to the limitations in Exchange 2010 RTM where the personal archive mailbox would be housed on the same database as the user mailbox. This would of course limit the ability to use a tiered storage model.
In order to move the personal archive mailbox, we would need to ensure both the user mailbox as well as the archive mailbox are on SP1. So if you are in a multi-server environment where... [Lire la suite]
15 décembre 2008
Windows 7 for the Enterprise
La page produit de Windows 7 Entreprise a été mise à jour et contient un bon résumé des nouvelles fonctionnalités et scénarios d’utilisation de Windows 7 pour l’entreprise.
C’est à l’adresse suivante : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/enterprise/windows7.mspx
http://blogs.technet.com/windows7/archive/2008/12/12/windows-7-for-the-enterprise.aspx