Microsoft Datacenter Blog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/heartland_datacenter_specialists/feed.xml Microsoft Heartland Datacenter Specialists Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:30:09 GMT en-US hourly 1 Building your own Private Cloud with Step by Step guideance https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/heartland_datacenter_specialists/building-your-own-private-cloud-with-step-by-step-guideance Tue, 28 May 2013 11:08:32 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heartland_datacenter_specialists/2013/05/28/building-your-own-private-cloud-with-step-by-step-guideance/ A great BLOG from a colleague in our geo, Keith Mayer, with Step-by-Step guidance in building your own Private Cloud with Windows Server/System Center and Windows Azure

 https://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/05/18/build-your-private-cloud-in-a-month-new-article-series.aspx#.UaTx4cLD-71

 

 

 

]]> Windows Azure: Improvements to Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and a new Ruby SDK https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/heartland_datacenter_specialists/windows-azure-improvements-to-virtual-networks-virtual-machines-cloud-services-and-a-new-ruby-sdk Tue, 14 May 2013 07:20:14 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heartland_datacenter_specialists/2013/05/14/windows-azure-improvements-to-virtual-networks-virtual-machines-cloud-services-and-a-new-ruby-sdk/ Recently released enhancements to Windows Azure for the areas below.   Read more from Scott Gurthrie's blog on these topics further.
capabilities include:

  • Virtual Networks: New Point-to-Site Connectivity, Software VPN Device and Dynamic DNS Support
  • Virtual Machines: Remote PowerShell and Linux SSH provisioning enhancements
  • Cloud Services: Enable Remote Desktop Support Dynamically on Web/Worker Roles
  • Ruby SDK: A new Windows Azure SDK support for Ruby

 

https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/04/26/windows-azure-improvements-to-virtual-networks-virtual-machines-cloud-services-and-a-new-ruby-sdk.aspx

]]> What's coming with System Center 2012 SP1 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/heartland_datacenter_specialists/whats-coming-with-system-center-2012-sp1 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:26:32 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heartland_datacenter_specialists/2012/08/21/whats-coming-with-system-center-2012-sp1/ System Center 2012 SP1 (currently in CTP2) includes the following update and enhancements to the following System Center 2012 components:

  • Virtual Machine Manager
    • Improved Support for Network
            Virtualization
    • Extend the VMM console with
            Add-ins
    • Support for Windows
            Standards-Based Storage Management Service, thin provisioning of logical
            units and discovery of SAS storage
    • Ability to convert VHD to
            VHDX, use VHDX as base Operating System image
  • Configuration Manager
    • Support for Windows 8
    • Ability to deploy Windows 8
            Apps
    • Real-time administrative
            actions for Endpoint Protection related tasks
  • Data Protection Manager
    • Improved backup performance
            of Hyper-V over CSV 2.0
    • Protection for Hyper-V over
            remote SMB share
    • Protection for Windows
            Server 2012 de-duplicated volumes
    • Uninterrupted protection for
            VM live migration
  • App Controller
    • Service Provider Foundation
            API to create and operate Virtual Machines
    • Support for Azure VM;
            migrate VHDs from VMM to Windows Azure, manage from on-premise System
            Center
  • Operations Manager
    • Support for IIS 8
    • Monitoring of WCF, MVC and
            .NET NT services
    • Azure SDK support
  • Orchestrator
    • Support for Integration
            Packs, including 3rd party
    • Manage VMM self-service User
            Roles
    • Manage multiple VMM ‘stamps’
            (scale units), aggregate results from multiple stamps
    • Integration with App
            Controller to consume Hosted clouds
  • Service Manager
    • Apply price sheets to VMM
            clouds
    • Create chargeback reports
    • Pivot by cost center, VMM
            clouds, Pricesheets
  • Server App-V
    • Support for applications
            that create scheduled tasks during packaging
    • Create virtual application
            packages from applications installed remotely on native server
]]> Transforming IT with the Microsoft Private Cloud https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/heartland_datacenter_specialists/transforming-it-with-the-microsoft-private-cloud Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:33:41 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heartland_datacenter_specialists/2012/01/19/transforming-it-with-the-microsoft-private-cloud/ Come and learning more about our recent announcements around the Microsoft Private Cloud from our senior executives and learning further around our announcments for System Center 2012.

Microsoft Private Cloud is built on solid investments you have made with Windows Server, System Center, Active Directory and others to provide the most comprehensive solution giving you choice and flexibility on your terms (key word choice!).  Learn more from a recent keynote delivered -  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/new.aspx,

 

 

]]> Validated Private Cloud with Cisco, NetApp and Microsoft https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/heartland_datacenter_specialists/validated-private-cloud-with-cisco-netapp-and-microsoft Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:55:21 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heartland_datacenter_specialists/2012/01/02/validated-private-cloud-with-cisco-netapp-and-microsoft/ Cisco and NetApp have jointly developed a pre-validated private cloud offering through the Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program.  Learn more at  - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/hyper-v-fasttrack-offering-now-available-from-cisco-and-netapp.aspx

]]> Hyper-V for Windows 8 workstations announced https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/heartland_datacenter_specialists/hyper-v-for-windows-8-workstations-announced Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:39:30 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heartland_datacenter_specialists/2011/09/09/hyper-v-for-windows-8-workstations-announced/ A  really exciting announcment shared on Windows 8.     For those of you that would like to run Hyper-V on your workstation as you do testing as a developer, architect evaluating solutions and so on, we are now providing Hyper-V for Windows 8 to run on the desktop.  For further details, please inquire further on the Building Windows 8 BLOG site at -  https://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/07/bringing-hyper-v-to-windows-8.aspx

 

 

 

]]> System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2012 BETA is now available https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/heartland_datacenter_specialists/system-center-data-protection-manager-dpm-2012-beta-is-now-available Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:30:55 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heartland_datacenter_specialists/2011/09/06/system-center-data-protection-manager-dpm-2012-beta-is-now-available/ Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 continues to build on the legacy of providing unified data protection for Windows servers and clients as a best-of-breed backup & recovery solution from Microsoft, for Windows environments. DPM provides the best protection and most supportable restore
scenarios from disk, tape and cloud -- in a scalable, manageable and cost-effective way.

Based on valuable customer feedback since the 2010 release, DPM 2012 provides System Center integration with a single console for managing all of your DPM servers. Also new in the 2012 release is certificate based protection, media co-location, generic data source protection and virtual enhancements to help you reduce the costs of managing your existing IT environment.

Already a critical part of Microsoft Hyper-V Private Cloud infrastructures, DPM provides the capability to protect virtual machines in your IT environment, as well as the applications running on them. With the 2012 release DPM grows these existing capabilities with support for item level recovery, even when DPM is running in a virtual machine.

To learn more from the product team post, please reference -  https://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2011/09/01/system-center-data-protection-manager-2012-beta-now-available.aspx

 

]]> Microsoft - SUSE 2.0 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/heartland_datacenter_specialists/microsoft-suse-2-0 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:28:40 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heartland_datacenter_specialists/2011/07/26/microsoft-suse-2-0/ As we continue to invest in our Interoperability, we have recently announced that Microsoft has formally extended our strategy Windows-Linux interoperability we previously had with Novell to SUSE.   To learn more, please reference the following BLOG post    https://blogs.technet.com/b/openness/archive/2011/07/25/microsoft-suse-2-0.aspx

 

Regards,

Your local Microsoft Heartland Datacenter team

]]> System Center Operations Manager 2012 BETA released https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/heartland_datacenter_specialists/system-center-operations-manager-2012-beta-released Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:25:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heartland_datacenter_specialists/2011/07/19/system-center-operations-manager-2012-beta-released/ Today, the BETA of SCOM 2012 was released.

System Center Operations Manager 2012 provides the solution to the challenges mentioned above by:

  • Delivering flexible and cost effective enterprise-class monitoring and diagnostics while reducing the total cost of ownership by leveraging commodity hardware with standard configurations to monitor heterogeneous environments.
  • Helping to ensure the availability of business-critical applications and services through market-leading .NET application performance monitoring and diagnostics plus JEE application health monitoring.
  • Providing a comprehensive view of datacenters, and private and public clouds.

Here’s what’s new

  • Rich application performance monitoring and diagnostics for .NET applications plus JEE application health monitoring
  • Support for monitoring heterogeneous environments
  • Integrated network device monitoring and alerts
  • Simplified management infrastructure
  • Common console across datacenter and clouds with customizable dashboards

Microsoft Download link : DOWNLOAD
Microsoft Official announcement : Read it

 

Regards,

Your local Heartland Datacenter team

]]> System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Dynamic Optimization / Power Optimization https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/heartland_datacenter_specialists/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2012-dynamic-optimization-power-optimization Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:28:53 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heartland_datacenter_specialists/2011/06/28/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2012-dynamic-optimization-power-optimization/ Within the upcoming version of Virtual Machine Manager 2012, we are including some optimization capabilties in which we think will make a big difference in helping you maximize your virtual resources in your datacenter.    Please reference the site below for a good breakdown on Dyanmic and Power Optimization with VMM 2012.

https://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2011/05/04/dynamic-optimization-and-power-optimization-in-scvmm-2012.aspx

 

 

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