Posted by: pnr in Untagged on
May 14, 2009
1. Inleiding
Virtualisatie is vandaag de dag niet meer weg te denken in de IT. VMware is een grote speler in deze virtualisatiemarkt. Met de producten van VMware is een organisatie in staat grootte gedeelten van het datacenter te virtualiseren. Het virtualiseren van het datacenter heeft vele voordelen zoals: serverconsolidatie, maximale resource benutting, de schaalbaarheid, backup en disaster recovery.
Posted by: pnr in Untagged on
May 14, 2009
Key new features of Exchange Server 2007 SP2 unveiled today include:
- Enhanced Auditing - New Exchange auditing events and audit log repository enable Exchange administrators to more easily audit the activities occurring on their Exchange servers. It allows the right balance of granularity, performance, and easy access to audited events via a dedicated audit log repository. This simplifies the auditing process and makes review of audited events easier by segregating audited events in a dedicated location.
- Exchange Volume Snapshot Backup Functionality - A new backup plug-in has been added to the product that will enable customers to create Exchange backups when a backup is invoked through the Windows Server 2008 Backup tool. Exchange Server 2007 didn't have this capability on Windows Server 2008 and additional solutions were required to perform this task.
- Dynamic Active Directory Schema Update and Validation - The dynamic AD schema update and validation feature allows for future schema updates to be dynamic deployed as well as proactively preventing conflicts whenever a new property is added to the AD schema. Once this capability is deployed it will enable easier management of future schema updates and will prevent support issues when adding properties that don't exist in the AD schema.
- Public Folder Quota Management - SP2 enables a consistent way to manage quotas by improving the current PowerShell cmdlets to perform quota management tasks.
- Centralized Organizational Settings - SP2 introduces new PowerShell option that enable centralized management of many of the Exchange organization settings.
- Named Properties cmdlets - SP2 enables Exchange administrators to monitor their named property usage per database.
- New User Interface for Managing Diagnostic Logging- SP2 enables Exchange administrators to easily configure and manage diagnostic logging from within the Exchange Management Console
Posted by: pnr in Untagged on
May 14, 2009
We all know that SCOM 2007 is a realy cool solution to monitor your environment. From the microsoft.com site you can download a lot of free management packs. Last week I was looking for a management pack for Oracle and could'nt find something I like, until I found the Quest management Xtension for SCOM 2007! You had to pay for it, but it's realy a strong solution!
The EDA is typically used in enterprise environments where it not only deploys new ESX hosts but also redeploys them in case of an error.
Posted by: hbr in Untagged on
Apr 11, 2009
The EDA is a linux appliance that is dedicated to deploying ESX in the most efficient, easy and fastest way possible. It will deploy dozens of hosts in minutes. It also has a script-builder that makes creating %post-scripts a breeze so the server automatically gets fully configured to be used as soon as the installation is done. That way the appliance can also be used as a disaster recovery tool. It's faster to redeploy an ESX server (takes only 2 minutes!), fully configured, than to restore it from whatever backup mechanism available today.
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