A rough and ready attempt to collate some of the interesting tech stuff filling up my inbox!
From Veeam Community Forums Digest – Jun 17
Hyper-V 2012 cool new features include:
- 64TB
Virtual Disks
- Shared
nothing live migration
- TRIM/UNMAP
support*
*On-the-fly wasted guest disk space
reclamation; which returns reclaimed disk space to your SAN, and all
you need is an OS that implements TRIM.
From
blogs.vmware.com
– Jun 19
5 New
Free elearning Courses:
From
blogs.msdn.com
– Jun 27
Free
videos on Windows Server 2012 from the Jump Start series:
• Windows
Server 2012 Jump Start (01): Core
Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (02a): Virtualization Infrastructure, Part 1
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (02b): Virtualization Infrastructure, Part 2
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (03a): Storage Architecture, Part 1
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (03b): Storage Architecture, Part 2
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (04): Continuous Availability
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (05a): Multi-Server Management, Part 1
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (05b): Multi-Server Management, Part 2
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (06a): Security and Access, Part 1
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (06b): Security and Access, Part 2
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (07): Remote Connectivity and Networking
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (08): IIS, DHCP and IPAM
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (02a): Virtualization Infrastructure, Part 1
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (02b): Virtualization Infrastructure, Part 2
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (03a): Storage Architecture, Part 1
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (03b): Storage Architecture, Part 2
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (04): Continuous Availability
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (05a): Multi-Server Management, Part 1
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (05b): Multi-Server Management, Part 2
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (06a): Security and Access, Part 1
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (06b): Security and Access, Part 2
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (07): Remote Connectivity and Networking
• Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (08): IIS, DHCP and IPAM
From Veeam Community Forums Digest –
Jul 1
Windows
Server 2012 does post-process dedupe (similar to ExaGrid and
Falconstor!)
From VMware
vCloud Blog – Jul 2
VMware's First Cloud Certification
released: VCP-IaaS
From Dell
Customer Stories – Jun 1
Interesting PDF article regarding
Dell's Compellent SAN solution for the University of North Texas –
a 36'000 student, and 3'200+ employee sized organization!
Services:
Dell Compellent
Copilot Optimize
Dell Compellent
Copilot Support
Dell Support Services – Dell
ProSupport Mission Critical
Hardware:
Brocade 48000 Directors
Dell Compellent
Storage Center SANs
Dell PowerEdge R910 servers with Intel
Xeon 7500 series processors
Dell PowerEdge R710 servers with Intel
Xeon 5600 series processors
Software:
Dell Compellent
Data Progression
Dell Compellent
Dynamic Capacity
Dell Compellent
Fast Track
Dell Compellent
Live Volume
Dell Compellent
Remote Instant Replay
From VMware
Community – Jul 5
VMware Mobile Secure Desktop Bootcamp
From kb.vmware.com
– Jul 3
Sample configuration of EtherChannel /
Link aggregation with ESX/ESXi and Cisco/HP switches – KB1004048
From kb.vmware.com
– Jul 3
Best practices for performing storage
performance tests within a virtualized environment
From NetApp
Communities – Jul 4
Setting a new standard: The new
FAS2200 Series, Flash, and Data ONTAP 8.1.1
created by Jason Blosil
The FAS2200 Series (FAS2220 and
FAS2240) includes the NetApp
Virtual Storage Tier
approach to leveraging the power of flash technology
with the Flash
Pool feature.
Flash pool combines the performance of SSD with the capacity of HDD,
is extremely easy to set up and use, and is fully integrated with the
upcoming release of System Manager. Also, with the new release of
Data
ONTAP 8.1.1, all NetApp's entry systems support Clustering.
Fig. NetApp Flash Pool
From NetApp
Communities - Jun
Virtual Storage Tiering (VST)
changes the game again with Flash Pool
created by Paul Feresten
And now, with Data ONTAP 8.1.1, the
Virtual Storage Tier has a new family member... Flash Pool.
Flash
Pool, like its Flash
Cache sibling,
implements VST through intelligent caching of hot data thus
delivering real time performance improvement with the right mix of
Flash and HDD. Flash Pool, is actually a specific type of Data ONTAP
aggregate which is composed of both HDD and SSD devices. While Flash
Cache (implemented as a PCI-e attached controller cache) accelerates
random read operations for all data on the storage system, Flash Pool
is enabled for specific data sets and provides caching of random
write operations as well as random reads. And since Flash Pool is
physically implemented at the disk shelf level, it provides a cache
that follows data persistently, even in the event of HA failover
events. You can deploy Flash Cache and Flash Pool independently or
combine them on the same storage system giving you the ability to
tune VST to the requirements of specific workloads-you can use Flash
Pool for workloads with lots of random writes and Flash Cache will
cover the rest.
From TheRegister
- Jul 6
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Licensing: four builds – Datacenter, Standard, Essentials, and
Foundation (OEM).
Fig. Windows Server 2012 Editions
From Dell
Customer Stories – Jun
Interesting PDF article regarding
Dell's solution for the Caterham F1 Team!
Hardware:
Intel Cluster Ready HPC
Dell PowerVault MD3200 and MD1200
storage arrays
Dell EqualLogic PS6000S storage arrays
Dell PowerEdge R210 and R710 Servers
with Intel Xeon processors X5570
Dell PowerEdge M1000e module blade
enclosures
Dell Latitude E6500 and E4300 laptops
Dell Precision M6600 and M4600 mobile
workstations
Dell PowerConnect 6xxx/7xxx/8xxx series
switches
Dell Force10 switches for iSCSI
Dell PowerVault TL2000 backup appliance
Dell Latitude ST Tablets
Dell Alienware Area-51 desktops
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