This Jump Start Training was held live last month and now it is available as a recordings. This course is led by Microsoft Senior Technical Evangelist Rick Claus and Ed Liberman from TrainSignal. The course is divided in 12 topics which can be found as separate videos here.
Category: Virtualization
HYPER-V 2008 R2 SP1 Best Practices
Roger Osborne a Microsoft PFE posted some general best practices for Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 on Ask Premier Field Engineering (PFE) Platforms blog. He also promises to update these practices for Hyper-V 2012 so we will be waiting.
How VMware calculate cost per application compared to Microsoft
There is a published article titled “VMware (finally) admits that its costs are higher than Microsoft’s” on Microsoft Server and Cloud blog. If you are VMware fan you probably will not believe any word in it but if you are impartial you can make up your own conclusions.
Hyper-V and SQL 2012 – better together
Microsoft gave the task to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) to make Workload Performance Analysis of using Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2012. Findings of this report you can find in this article.
System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta Integration Pack for Windows Azure
Customers who have Hybrid Clouds want to automate their Private Cloud as well as their Public Cloud. Now this task can be easier with the new System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Integration Pack for Windows Azure. This integration pack for Orchestrator is still in beta but you can download it and start testing it. The integration pack includes activities as:
- Azure Certificates- the Azure Certificates activity is used in a runbook to add, delete, and list management and service certificates
- Azure Deployments- the Azure Deployments activity is used in a runbook to create, delete, get, and swap deployments, change deployment configurations, update deployment statuses, rollback an update or upgrade, get and change deployment operating systems, upgrade deployments, walk upgrade domains, and reboot and reimage role instances
- Azure Cloud Services- the Azure Cloud Services activity is used in a runbook to create, delete, and get cloud services, check cloud service name availability, and create affinity groups
- Azure Storage- The Azure Storage activity is used in a runbook to create, delete, update, and list storage accounts, get storage account properties, get and regenerate storage account keys, create, list, and delete containers, and put, copy, delete, list, snapshot, and download blobs
- Azure Virtual Machine Disks- the Azure Virtual Machine Disks activity is used in a runbook to add, delete, update, and list virtual machine disks and virtual machine data disks
- Azure Virtual Machine Images- the Azure Virtual Machine Images activity is used in a runbook to add, delete, update, and list virtual machine operating system images
- Azure Virtual Machines- the Azure Virtual Machines activity is used in a runbook to create virtual machine deployments, download virtual machine remote desktop files, as well as get, delete, start, restart, shutdown, capture, and update virtual machine roles
Download the integration pack from here.
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