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Microsoft releases Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
02 years ago
by Bart Timmermans
in Uncategorized
The System Center Operations Manager 2007 guide, updated for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, outlines the critical infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation of System Center Operations Manager. The reader is guided through the step-by-step process of designing components, layout, and connectivity in a logical, sequential order. Identification and design of the required management groups are presented in simple, easy-to-follow steps, helping the reader to design and optimize management infrastructure.
Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Windows Deployment Services updated for Windows Server 2008 R2
02 years ago
The Windows Deployment Services guide, updated to reflect the new features and functionality that Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced, outlines the critical infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation of Windows Deployment Services. Following the six steps in this guide will result in a design that is sized, configured, and appropriately placed to enable rapid deployment of Windows operating systems, while also considering the performance, capacity, and fault tolerance of the system.
File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 available for download
02 years ago
Source: Microsoft Storage Team
Version 1.0 of the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) was announced yesterday during a presentation by Jian Yan and Bartosz Nyczkowski at SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA. The presentation covered a number of details about FSCT and included a demo running FSCT with the HomeFolders workload.
If you are not familiar with FSCT, the download page offers this overview: “File server capacity planning and performance troubleshooting are critical aspects of high-level network administration. Central file servers and distributed client workstations are now the norm in most corporate networks. This structure reduces storage capacity requirements, centralizes backup, increases the availability of files, and simplifies the document revision and review process. However, because data storage and access are centralized, performance limitations impact the entire network population. Accurately projecting the number of users that hardware can support under a specific workload, and understanding when and where bottlenecks occur, are critical to making efficient improvements to the server configuration. File server capacity planning tools can be valuable in choosing new hardware for purchase, identifying the capacity of existing hardware, locating existing bottlenecks, and planning for resource expansion in advance of resource exhaustion. The throughput capacity of a file server can be expressed either as the maximum number of operations per second or a maximum number of users supported by the configuration. These values are influenced by several factors, some of which include processor speed, available memory, disk speed, network throughput and latency, and the speed with which SMB requests are processed.”
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