July 2010 - Posts

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 Release Candidate

The Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 (VMMSSP) is a fully supported, partner extensible solution that can be used by customers to pool, allocate, and manage their compute, network and storage resources to deliver the foundation for a private cloud platform in their datacenter.
 
Built on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, and System Center VMM. You can use it to pool, allocate, and manage resources to offer infrastructure as a service and to deliver the foundation for a private cloud platform inside your datacenter. VMMSSP includes a pre-built web-based user interface that has sections for both the datacenter managers and the business unit IT consumers, with role-based access control.
 
VMMSSP also includes a dynamic provisioning engine. VMMSSP reduces the time needed to provision infrastructures and their components by offering business unit “on-boarding,” infrastructure request and change management. The VMMSSP package also includes detailed guidance on how to implement VMMSSP inside your environment.

To download a release candidate build go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fef38539-ae5a-462b-b1c9-9a02238bb8a7&displaylang=en

 

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Dynamic Memory Technical Overview Whitepaper.

Microsoft has published a technical whitepaper on Dynamic Memory and this paper can be downloaded from http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/0/5/E05DF049-8220-4AEE-818B-786ADD9B434E/Implementing_and_Configuring_Dynamic_Memory.docx

 

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Public Beta Now Available for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1

On July 12, 2010, at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Washington, D.C., Microsoft announced the public availability of the beta for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1). In addition to SP1 beta availability, Microsoft is also provided important updates regarding estimated SP1 timing, end user downgrade rights and general Windows product lifecycle policy. You can download the beta of SP1 from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/ff183870.aspx?ITPID=wtcfeed

 

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Insight Control for Microsoft System Center 6.1 now available

New Features
• Support for new ProLiant G7 servers and iLO 3
• Support for ProLiant Support Pack 8.40
• Support for user configurable non-local accounts for Server Discovery and Server Monitoring
• Additional HP Inventory Tool attributes
• New Setup and Installation Guide for HP Catalog for ProLiant Server Updates


Software Download location:
The location in Software Depot is
www.hp.com/go/HPICE (HP Passport ID required)

Instructions:

To download the ISO image, click the Receive for Free button.  Download the ISO image “Insight Control for System Center 6.1 CD ISO - Jul 2010 (594131-002.iso)” 

 

Patrick Lownds

New Windows Azure Training Kit Now Available

Microsoft have released the Windows Azure Platform training kit whcih is now available and ready for download at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/06/11/new-windows-azure-training-kit-now-available.aspx. This training kit has everything you need to get started and then dig deep into the Windows Azure platform.

 

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How Microsoft does IT - Part 3 How microsoft.com Moved to a Virtualized Infrastructure

Microsoft virtualization technologies and SAN-based clustered storage solved numerous ongoing challenges. Implementing a dynamic compute infrastructure enabled Microsoft.com Operations to increase architectural flexibility and optimize use of resources. To read the technical case study and watch the video go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff728013.aspx 

 

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How Microsoft does IT - Part 2 Reducing Costs and Improving Systems Management with Hyper-V and System Center Operations Manager

Microsoft E&D IT leverages System Center Operations Manager and Hyper-V to Manage over 170 different applications and a 600+ Server Environment to streamline application and server Infrastructure management. To read the technical case study and watch the video go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff772001.aspx

 

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How Microsoft does IT - Part 1 Project Carnation

Project Carnation (a major storage consolidation project) involved migrating 211 storage frames at the end of their lifespan to 11 high-density SAN devices resulting in improving both redundancy and scalability of the storage platform while dramatically lowering power consumption and operating costs. To read the entire case study go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795580.aspx

 

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