Scratch The Surface : System Center Stuff, Hyper-V

Server and Client Virtualization day to learn more about Microsofts virtualization technology.

Bart Bultinck — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:27:35 GMT

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TechNet Event: Learn how to use Virtualization from the Desktop to the Datacenter

Using products that span the desktop to the data center, you can bring capacities online in real-time, as needed; streamline and provision applications, services and data on-demand; accelerate backup and recovery, and enhance availability so that your users are well protected against system failure and service interruptions.
This event will consist out of two tracks one for Data Center Virtualization and one for Desktop Virtualization.
Following technologies will be covered:

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization
Application Virtualization
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Windows Server 2008 R2 - Hyper-V
System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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System Center Data Protection manager 2007 - SP1 features.

Bart Bultinck — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:53:00 GMT

Back in june i posted this blogpost on what to expect from DPM2007 SP1.
Some weeks ago I attended a session hosted by the Belgian system center user group about DPM where there was a slide on what will be included in SP1.

SCR protection for Exchange 2007
support for mirrored Databases and for SQL2008
support for indexes in sharepoint
support for HyperV !
and local datastorage backup
you will be able to use shared tape librairies

You can also view this session as it was recorded for the Technet Chopsticks website

//Bart Bultinck

ISCSI target software for short term lab projects....

Bart Bultinck — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:44:00 GMT

Hi!

Just did another implementation of a DELL Equallogic PS5000XV iscsi array which is very nice and powerfull equipment well suited for the virtualisation project I'm currently working on.
I just had a "few thingies" I wanted to try out offline so I booted up my virtual lab and started to search for iscsi target software.
I used openfiler before and as this is great software (and free) I was going to build me a openfiler VM again just when I happened to cross a blogpost about the MS ISCSI target software trial software used in their storage server suite.

So i didn't have to build another VM and i could just load the trial software on a VM . 2 mins later I had a working iscsi target server. Hooray for productivity !

Download the trial by clicking here.
Source : http://blogs.technet.com/quenguyen/archive/2008/10/16/test-driving-windows-storage-server.aspx

//Bart

my 15 minutes of fame - SCVMM & SCDPM customercase

Bart Bultinck — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:35:56 GMT

Some time ago my customer and myself joined the IT-PRO MOMENTUM program in order to accelerate our roll-out of system center virtual machine manager and system center data protection manager.

And last week we made a small video about this project that will be appearing later on Technet Edge i believe. Looking forward for the results...
I'll be posting more stuff about this project later on...

Yours truly explaining why SCVMM and SCDPM are great (not much explaining needed)

A little powder to make the head less shiny :-)

//Bart Bultinck