February 02 2012 8:33 AM

Hotfix: SCDPM 2010 Interoperability Hotfix for Centralized Management with SCDPM 2012 Beta

This interoperability patch enables your SCDPM 2010 servers to be centrally managed using the Central Console feature available with SCDPM 2012. Once you have installed this hotfix, you can monitor and manage both SCDPM 2010 and SCDPM 2012 servers using...

February 02 2012 8:31 AM

Webcast: Inside the EMC / Microsoft Partnership for MMS 2012

This is a pretty informative video about how EMC is involved in MMS 2012 Inside the Partnership is your link to happenings, events and news between the EMC and Microsoft Partnership. Inside The Partnership (EMC/MSFT) - ITP19 - 2012 Overview and Getting R...

January 31 2012 9:39 PM

[Private Cloud]: Configuring anti-affinity between VMs on Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 and VMM 2012

Sometimes, virtual machines that should not reside on the same virtualization host. This comes into play with virtualized Exchange server roles, VMs that are part of a failover cluster, virtualized Active Directory domain controllers or sometimes a VMs i...

January 27 2012 1:29 PM

Cloud: A quick note on accurately measuring Hyper-V host performance and utilization

Just a quick note on monitoring overall Hyper-V host processor utilization. You may be tempted to monitor Processor \ % Processor Utilization…but this would be incorrect. Why? For purposes of measuring processor utilization, the host operating system is...

January 27 2012 4:41 AM

Where to find details on the System Center 2012 Licensing Plan (downloadable datasheets and FAQ)

I recently attended a discussion / briefing on the new licensing model, which I think is going to simplify things for orgs like mine. Microsoft has recently posted downloadable datasheets to help customers sort this out, including a 27 question FAQ sheet...

January 26 2012 4:23 PM

MMS 2012 Technology Survey (management, virtualization and cloud)

A few weeks ago we posted a survey in response to a suggestion in the community that interest in private cloud was not a topic of interest in the System Center community (which sounded completely crazy to me). With the survey response now maxed out, the...

January 24 2012 5:29 AM

Private Cloud in the real world: 5 lessons from the private cloud fabric

When I first said I wanted to talk about private cloud in the real world, I was thinking to share some deep insights. In reality, some of the insights are not so deep, but rather just part of the long list of little things you must get right to deliver o...

January 18 2012 7:36 AM

How to prepare for Orchestrator? Learn Opalis in a month of Friday afternoons! (free online resources)

“Should I learn learn System Center now, or what until System Center 2012 comes out?” I hear this question fairly often from customers. What if I told you that a month from now, you could add a relevant, important skill to your resume in a month of Frida...

January 17 2012 11:59 AM

Why I am no longer an Operations Manager MVP… but I am a System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP!

There was an interesting discussion today (Taming IT with the Microsoft Private Cloud) which shows the deeper level of integration occurring in the System Center space. The following is my “Summary for Geeks” from the meeting above: Packaging and Pricing...

January 05 2012 8:43 AM

Virtual Event: Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud

Big news coming on Jan 17th folks! Don’t miss it! Registration Register Now for the virtual event Tuesday, January 17th 8:30 AM PST | 16:30 UTC Hear from other senior IT professionals about how cloud computing can help you gain maximum competitive advant...