It's all about Microsoft Infrastructure... https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/schadinio/feed.xml here you can find information about Virtualization, System Center, Unified Messaging, Directory Services, Deployment, MS Certification and much more... Mon, 02 Nov 2015 07:52:51 GMT en-US hourly 1 Software-Defined Networking with Windows Server and System Center Jump Start https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/schadinio/software-defined-networking-with-windows-server-and-system-center-jump-start Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:47:26 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/schadinio/2014/03/07/software-defined-networking-with-windows-server-and-system-center-jump-start/

Free online event with live Q&A with the networking team: https://aka.ms/SftDnet

Wednesday, March 19th from 8am – 1pm PST

Are you exploring new networking strategies for your datacenter? Want to simplify the process? Software-defined networking (SDN) can streamline datacenter implementation through self-service provisioning, take the complexity out of network management, and help increase security with fully isolated environments. Intrigued? Bring specific questions, and get answers from the team who built this popular solution!
Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 are being used with SDN implementations in some of the largest datacenters in the world, and this Jump Start can help you apply lessons learned from those networks to your own environment. From overall best practices to deep technical guidance, this demo-rich session gives you what you need to get started, plus in-depth Q&A with top experts who have real-world SDN experience. Don't miss it!

Register here: https://aka.ms/SftDnet

Check out the www.MicrosoftVirtualAcademy.com for other free training and live events.

]]> Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System Center https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/schadinio/virtualizing-your-data-center-with-hyper-v-and-system-center Mon, 10 Feb 2014 05:02:49 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/schadinio/2014/02/10/virtualizing-your-data-center-with-hyper-v-and-system-center/

Free online event with live Q&A: https://aka.ms/virtDC

Wednesday, February 19th from 9am – 5pm PST

If you're new to virtualization, or if you have some experience and want to see the latest R2 features of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V or Virtual Machine Manager, join us for a day of free online training with live Q&A to get all your questions answered. Learn how to build your infrastructure from the ground up on the Microsoft stack, using System Center to provide powerful management capabilities. Microsoft virtualization experts Symon Perriman and Matt McSpirit (who are also VMware Certified Professionals) demonstrate how you can help your business consolidate workloads and improve server utilization, while reducing costs. Learn the differences between the platforms, and explore how System Center can be used to manage a multi-hypervisor environment, looking at VMware vSphere 5.5 management, monitoring, automation, and migration. Even if you cannot attend the live event, register today anyway and you will get an email once we release the videos for on-demand replay! 

Topics include

• Introduction to Microsoft Virtualization

• Host Configuration

• Virtual Machine Clustering and Resiliency

• Virtual Machine Configuration

• Virtual Machine Mobility

• Virtual Machine Replication and Protection

• Network Virtualization

• Virtual Machine and Service Templates

• Private Clouds and User Roles

• System Center 2012 R2 Data Center

• Virtualization with the Hybrid Cloud

• VMware Management, Integration, and Migration

Register here: https://aka.ms/virtDC

Also check out the www.MicrosoftVirtualAcademy.com for other free training and live events.

]]> Ask an expert your Windows Azure questions https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/schadinio/ask-an-expert-your-windows-azure-questions Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:52:49 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/schadinio/2013/08/14/ask-an-expert-your-windows-azure-questions/ On August 27, MVA continues its monthly series of free Q&A sessions led by Microsoft technical evangelists. This month, we’re following-up to our 5 Star Rated course, Windows Azure for IT Professionals Jump Start by inviting Microsoft Technical Evangelist David Tesar to answer any questions you may have about the product.

Space is limited: Register now.

The live, audience-led discussion is geared toward IT professionals that are interested in Windows Azure. Attendees can get answers to their questions on technical capabilities, get advice for using products in a live environment; and learn from their peers in the industry and Microsoft expert David Tesar.

This MVA Live Q&A session will focus on topics covered in the previous Windows Azure courses posted on MVA. Prepare for this event by taking the following courses and testing your knowledge with the module self-assessments:

]]> CISCO NEXUS 1000V AVAILABLE FOR HYPER-V https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/schadinio/cisco-nexus-1000v-available-for-hyper-v Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:38:19 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/schadinio/2013/06/10/cisco-nexus-1000v-available-for-hyper-v/

Cisco Cloud Networking and Services Platform team is excited to announce the availability of Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V as a part of our hypervisor-agnostic cloud networking strategy. This represents a major milestone for the Nexus 1000V platform which already has more than 7000 customers. 

We are also shipping Virtual Services Gateway (VSG) and Virtual Network Management Center ( VNMC)  for Hyper-V. With this introduction, enterprise and cloud provider customers will be able to extend Nexus experience to Hyper-V virtual environments. Learn More

 

Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V Solution Highlights

· Advanced NX-OS features and associated partner ecosystem to Windows Server 2012

· Consistent operational model across hypervisors (vSphere & Hyper-V)

· Innovative network services architecture (via vPath) to support secure multitenant environments

· Tight integration with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) as well as support for PowerShell

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Cisco Nexus 1100 Cloud Services Platform also supports Nexus 1000V for Hyper-V to host VSM and VSG virtual appliances.

Features and Functionality

Capability

Features

Switching

L2-Switching, PVLANs, QoS, ACLs, port security etc.

Security

DHCP snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection, and IP source guard

Monitoring

NetFlow, packet statistics, SPAN, and ERSPAN

Manageability

SNMP, NetConf, syslog, REST-APIs etc.

Virtual services

vPath architecture to enable services like VSG etc.

Note: Nexus 1000V feature-set will be consistent across all hypervisors

 

More Information

Nexus 1000V for Hyper-V with Microsoft SCVMM integration w/ live demo

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Resources

· Cisco Nexus 1000V for Hyper-V internal field portal: 
https://savtg.cisco.com/go/1000vhyper-v/

· Cisco Nexus 1000V for Hyper-V external cisco.com page: 
https://www.cisco.com/go/1000v/hyper-v/

· Cisco Nexus 1000V Public Community: 
https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter/nexus1000v/

· Cisco-Microsoft partnership page: 
https://www.cisco.com/go/microsoft/

 

]]> Capacity Planner for Hyper-V Replica https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/schadinio/capacity-planner-for-hyper-v-replica Wed, 22 May 2013 21:16:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/schadinio/2013/05/22/capacity-planner-for-hyper-v-replica/ Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 includes a new capability called “Hyper-V Replica”. Hyper-V Replica allows administrators to replicate their virtual machines from a primary server/cluster to a replica server/cluster.  I have been asked many times , how much bandwidth we need for the Hyper-V replica.

And I usually gave a typical consultant answer:  It depends Smile    …  which is true, but not satisfying.

 

The Capacity Planner for Hyper-V Replica guides the IT administrator to design the server, storage and network infrastructure which is required to successfully deploy Hyper-V Replica.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=39057

 

would be good to get some feedback from you on real life scenarios and how accurate the planning tool is

Willy

]]> SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Support for System Center 2012 SP1 products https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/schadinio/sql-server-2012-alwayson-support-for-system-center-2012-sp1-products Sun, 19 May 2013 08:48:22 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/schadinio/2013/05/19/sql-server-2012-alwayson-support-for-system-center-2012-sp1-products/ During my project I tried to find out which System Center 2012 SP1 products support SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn functionality . I took me quite some time after browsing all products for supported configuration I finally found following technet article https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj628198.aspx  which provides exactly the information I was looking for.

 

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Support

In System Center 2012 SP1, SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn is supported in the following components:

  • App Controller
  • Operations Manager
  • Orchestrator
  • Service Manager
  • VMM

SQL Server AlwaysOn is not supported with Data Protection Manager (DPM) and Configuration Manager.

 

A Word document describing SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn can be found at SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn: Multisite Failover Cluster Instance.

 

 

Hope this helps saving some time

Willy

]]> How to design a Microsoft Private Cloud in a predictable and supported way https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/schadinio/how-to-design-a-microsoft-private-cloud-in-a-predictable-and-supported-way Wed, 15 May 2013 19:54:42 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/schadinio/2013/05/15/how-to-design-a-microsoft-private-cloud-in-a-predictable-and-supported-way/ A Product Line Architecture (PLA) is a set of rules and architectural patterns that provide a method for predictable and supportable deployments

These documents provides specific guidance for developing fabric architectures (compute, network, storage, and virtualization layers) of an overall private cloud solution. Using PLA allows you to have a clear decision path across the full scope and will avoid running into some unknown or new issues during the deployment.  These PLA delivers the highest quality deployment by following proven design principles. The

Benefits of using the PLA include:

  • Proven deployment model
  • Deployed right the first time
  • Reduced time to deployment
  • Predictable and achievable SLA’s
  • The best user experience
  • All workload capabilities realized

]]> Where can I find information about Security for Microsoft Private Cloud https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/schadinio/where-can-i-find-information-about-security-for-microsoft-private-cloud Wed, 15 May 2013 19:41:53 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/schadinio/2013/05/15/where-can-i-find-information-about-security-for-microsoft-private-cloud/ As I am working for large National Cloud project for a Government very high Security standard and a lot of requirements for security, compliance and auditing coming up every day.

As Microsoft we are using following building blocks to build an Architecture  for a Microsoft Private Cloud

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Security components for Private Cloud can be found under following link

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6642.a-solution-for-private-cloud-security.aspx

 

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]]> TechEd Europe - Speaker–“Envisioning the Modern Datacenter” https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/schadinio/teched-europe-speakerenvisioning-the-modern-datacenter Wed, 15 May 2013 01:25:16 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/schadinio/2013/05/15/teched-europe-speakerenvisioning-the-modern-datacenter/ Are you struggling to keep critical services running in your Datacenter in accordance to agreed upon SLAs? Are you finding it difficult to control and manage various and heterogeneous environments and keep them from growing out of control? If so, how would you like to learn how Microsoft manages its own Datacenter which host over 400 services accessed by millions of customers daily?

Join Wilfried Schadenboeck (Datacenter Solutions Architect) from Microsoft's World Wide Cloud Center of Excellence for Modern Datacenter  as he discusses how Microsoft approached running some of the largest Datacenters in the World. He covers the principles that govern the management and operations of these Datacenters and how these learning's drive innovations within the Microsoft System Center family of products. Now is the time to rethink your approach to managing Datacenters to leverage the capabilities that not only enhance IT Service Management but Infrastructure Deployment and Application Management as well.

]]> Looking for Standards how to design Datacenters? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/schadinio/looking-for-standards-how-to-design-datacenters Wed, 15 May 2013 00:26:16 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/schadinio/2013/05/15/looking-for-standards-how-to-design-datacenters/ Beside the approach Microsoft takes to design Modern or Modular Datacenters which is very advanced and innovative,  there exists some de-facto standards from the industry.

 

BICSI 002  (www.bicsi.org) , updated in 2011, sets forth requirements, recommendations and additional information that should be considered when working with critical systems, like the electrical, mechanical, and telecommunication networks, as well as other significant needs, such as site selection, security, and building needs.

To accomplish the delivery of these diverse subjects within a single volume, BICSI 002 integrated the key concepts and requirements from other documents and standards, from ISO, IEC, TIA, ASHRAE, NFPA and others, while providing reference to specific documents where more considerations or information is available. This feature, unique to BICSI 002, provides a comprehensive document, which covers following areas on datacenter design:

1 Introduction
2 Scope
3 References
4 Definitions, Acronyms, Abbreviations, And Units Of Measurement
5 Space Planning
6 Site Selection
7 Architectural
8 Structural
9 Electrical Systems
10 Mechanical
11 Fire Protection
12 Security
13 Building Automation Systems
14 Telecommunications
15 Information Technology
16 Commissioning
17 Data Center Maintenance
Annex A: Design Process (Informative)
Annex B: Reliability And Availability (Informative)
Annex C: Referenced Documents (Informative)

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