A set of links with
some brief notes and images, of interesting tech things unearthed since 4th
November. With stuff from: Citrix, Huawei, Microsoft, Netapp, StarWind, and VMware!
Personal favourite(s):
Citrix
Knowledge Center Top 10 – October 2012
## Citrix ##
If Citrix is your
thing, I’d highly recommend running through Citrix KC Top 10 October list!
“ShareFile with StorageZones
gives IT the flexibility to choose between customer-managed StorageZones
allowing IT to leverage on-premises storage within their private cloud or
Citrix-managed secure cloud storage options in multiple worldwide locations.”
Think Dropbox for Enterprise with on-premise!
A very useful set
of recommended antivirus
exclusions for Citrix Provisioning Server!
A few recommended
Server Side file exclusions:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CVhdBusP6.sys => (PVS 6.1)
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CVhdBus2.sys => (PVS 5.6)
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CFsDep2.sys => (PVS 5.6
and PVS 6.1)
C:\Program Files\Citrix\Provisioning Services\BNTFTP.EXE
=> (PVS 5.6 and PVS 6.1)
C:\ProgramData\Citrix\Provisioning
Services\Tftpboot\ARDBP32.BIN => (PVS 5.6 and PVS 6.1)
D:\Store => (i.e. local vdisk store)
A few recommended
Server Side processes to be excluded:
C:\Program Files\Citrix\Provisioning
Services\StreamService.exe => (All versions)
C:\Program Files\Citrix\Provisioning
Services\StreamProcess.exe => (All versions)
C:\Program Files\Citrix\Provisioning
Services\soapserver.exe => (All versions)
A few recommended
Target Device exclusions:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\bnistack.sys => (Only
targets, Win2003/XP)
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\bnistack6.sys => (Only
targets, 2008/Win7)
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\BNNF.sys => (Only targets)
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\BNNS.sys => (Only targets,
Win2003/XP)
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\BNNS6.sys => (Doesn’t
exist anymore with PVS6.1 Agent)
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\BNPort.sys => (Only
targets)
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CFsDep2.sys => (Only
targets, Win2003/XP)
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CVhdBusP52.sys => (Only
targets, Win2003/XP)
C:\Program Files\Citrix\Provisioning
Services\BNDevice.exe => (Only targets, 2008/Win7)
C:\Program Files\Citrix\Provisioning Services\TargetOSOptimizer.exe
=> (Only targets, 2008/Win7)
## Huawei ##
“Chinese storage
interloper Huawei has shattered standards body SPEC's sfs2008 Network File
System (NFS)
benchmark, scoring 3,064,602
IOPS, 49 per cent more than an Avere cluster and 51 per cent more than a
NetApp cluster.”
## Microsoft ##
Don’t like Windows
8’s missing start button – try Classic Shell!
“Take a short
survey that assesses your current IT environment with regard to systems,
processes, and productivity. The survey
information creates a custom non-commercial report that provides
recommendations on your IT state and helps you evaluate the benefits of cloud computing.”
Sysinternals Live Sync Tool!
Ever wanted to keep
the sysinternals packages on a server up to date - now you can!
More flexible than
the built-in MMC Remote Desktops snap-in!
“Download the
datasheets, white papers and technical presentations that will help you
evaluate Microsoft SQL
Server 2012” – a hefty 129.8MB of information!
“Windows Azure hosts do not offer
a feature which Hyper-V has called Live Migration. Azure runs a dedicated, Microsoft developed
hypervisor, not Hyper-V. Azure has been designed for a PaaS role in which an
application is served by multiple instances, and when a single instance fails
there are no issues. So in the architecture of Azure, a Live Migration feature
was not a requirement.”
## NetApp ##
“Our new NetApp FAS3200 Series
enables flash, clustering to improve IT performance and agility.”
More on the new
FAS3200 range:
“We now get:
- A FAS3220, an uprated 3210, with up to 480 drives, 1.44PB
capacity, and 1TB of flash
cache; its drive count and flash cache amount have both doubled.
- A FAS3250 with a maximum of
720 drives, 2.16PB
of capacity, and 2TB of flash
cache – replace(s) both the FAS3240
and the FAS3270 …”
Exchange 2010 two member
DAG virtual server OS, DB, and Log volume migration to Netapp
No link, just a
note from a discussion on Linkedin:
Use NetApp SnapDrive to migrate Exchange
2010 from EqualLogic to NetApp, and then SnapManager for Exchange (SME) to back it up.
## StarWind Software ##
A couple of
interesting StarWind iSCSI SAN PDFs for HA Shared Storage:
## VMware ##
What’s new in the VMware IO Analyzer 1.5?
- Test scheduler
- More detailed storage/network/CPU
statistics
- Tests and results
annotation
Download from: http://labs.vmware.com/flings/io-analyzer
Comments
Post a Comment