Month: December 2011

System Center Operations Manager 2012 RC Review for 4Sysops–part 8

 

The final part of my SCOM 2012 RC review for 4Sysops is now online here. In this part I talk about the new dashboards and how easy it is to create them as well as wrap up with some final words.

Enjoy and thanks for reading. 

System Center Operations Manager 2012 RC Review for 4Sysops–part 7

The seventh part of my SCOM 2012 RC review for 4sysops is now live, covering Linux cross platform monitoring (enhanced compared to SCOM 2007 R2) and Java Enterprise Edition machine monitoring (new in SCOM 2012). Read it here.

Enjoy and thanks for reading.

System Center Operations Manager 2012 RC Review for 4Sysops–part 6

And the sixth part of my SCOM 2012 RC review is now online at 4sysops. In this part I look at Application Performance Monitoring, APM, which is the new name for the technologies acquired by Microsoft from AVICode. Read it here.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

Put Hyper-V into hyper drive–part 1 for Virtualization Review

I’m now writing weekly for Virtualization Review about all things virtualization, especially Hyper-V, System Center and related Microsoft / third party products. This first part looks at processors in Hyper-V, both how to select the right CPU for your hosts as well as assigning virtual CPUs to VMs, read it here.

Enjoy and thanks for reading.

System Center Operations Manager 2012 RC Review for 4Sysops–part 4

The fourth part of my SCOM 2012 review for 4Sysops is now online here. This time I cover infrastructure improvements such as the really cool built in High Availability, just add another server and they’ll form a resource pool.

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.

System Center Operations Manager 2012 RC Review for 4Sysops

I’ve written a long review of System Center Operations Manager 2012 for 4Sysops, the first part is now online. SCOM 2012 has a ton of new and improved features so the series is well worth reading, check it out here. 

Enjoy! And thanks for reading.