23 septembre 2013
Paper: Decoding Microsoft’s VDI Licensing Arcanum
Login Consultants has released a paper titled: “Decoding Microsoft’s VDI Licensing Arcanum“. The paper which contains 43 pages is written by Falko Gräfe can be downloaded for free from the Login Consultants website after registration.
The paper covers Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) licensing and compares this against Server Based Computing licensing and single user terminal server licensing being used by some of the Desktop as a Service (DaaS) providers nowadays.
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19 novembre 2012
Paper: Best Practices for Oversubscription of CPU, Memory and Storage in vSphere Virtual Environments
VKernel, now part of DELL has released a paper titled:"Best Practices for Oversubscription of CPU, Memory and Storage in vSphere Virtual Environments". The paper which can be downloaded after registration contains 13 pages and is written by Scott D. Lowe and provides insight in the pros and cons of oversubscription of Processing, Memory and Storage resources. Scott also details how far oversubscription should be taken before it becomes dangerous.
Scott uses vOps Server Explorer, for which VKernel recently released version 6 as the... [Lire la suite]
03 février 2011
Plans de reprise d’activité sous VMware
Alors que les projets de virtualisation fleurissent dans les entreprises, le recours aux outils traditionnels est encore largement répandu, notamment pour les stratégies de sauvegarde. « The Essential Guide to Legacy-Free Disaster Recovery » est un livre blanc qui identifie les écueils des systèmes de protection de données traditionnels et propose des pistes d’évolution en environnement VMware. Sean Clark, auteur de ce white paper (visible ici) et expert VMware, explique comment réorganiser ses données en s’appuyant sur les solutions... [Lire la suite]
06 décembre 2010
More Whitepapers to Help You Securely Publish Exchange
A few months ago we published a Whitepaper detailing the steps required to securely publish Exchange to the Internet using TMG and UAG. (That document has recently been updated by the way, and the newest version is available here White Paper - Publishing Exchange Server 2010 with Forefront).
At the end of the last post I hinted at some related upcoming Whitepapers. The first two of them are ready. The first is about using IPsec to restrict access to OWA and Outlook Anywhere to machines you control or manage, and it is available... [Lire la suite]
02 juin 2010
Try Out the Microsoft Desktop Player
Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility Results Are InCheck out the Cross-browser Test Results Summary for Internet Explorer 9. Take the IE 9 Test Drive, and then see Solutions for Virtualizing Internet Explorer to learn how to create a virtual operating environment in which you can run earlier versions of IE. Try Out the Microsoft Desktop PlayerThe Microsoft Desktop player allows IT professionals to access technical content (videos, webcasts, podcasts, white papers, and more) and links to resources (such as IT evangelists, local... [Lire la suite]
02 février 2009
Hyper-V R2 Live Migration Overview & Architecture
There is a new whitepaper that details how live migration in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2 works:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fdd083c6-3fc7-470b-8569-7e6a19fb0fdf&DisplayLang=en
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2009/01/29/hyper-v-r2-live-migration-overview-architecture.aspx
03 décembre 2008
Hyper-V : Articles - White Papers
Retrouvez ci dessous l'ensemble des articles et white papers disponibles autour d'hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Technical Overview
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Datasheet
Top 10 Reasons for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Virtualization Product Overview
Windows Server 2008 Quick Migration with Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Advanced Virtualization Benefits
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/white-papers.aspx
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04 novembre 2008
Livre blanc sur les performances de RDP 6.1 disponible
The “RDP Performance White Paper” (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/ts-product-home.aspx) describes the performance characteristics of several scenarios that include some of the key features in RDP 6.1. It also includes performance considerations for individual features that can help guide your decisions when modifying your deployment configuration to improve performance or tune it to the specific needs of your end users.
Plus de detail sur... [Lire la suite]