Sikkerhet:
More secure alternative to VPN og  VPNs and IPsec
Security Baselines for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8
Using ILM for DMZ Account Management
How to convert local and global groups to universal groups
What I Look for When Hiring IT Security Staff
Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series

Backup:
Learn more about system image backup 

Exchange:
Automating Exchange 2010 Pre-Requisits on Windows Server 2008 
Exchange Server 2010 RTM Upgrade and Installation Notes

System Center:
Renaming the Configuration Manager 2007 Database

Virtualisering: 
EMC Whitepaper Powerpath/VE beskriver forskjellene mellom Powerpath/VE og MRU, Fixed og Round Robin (EMC Performance Optimazion for VMware)
So What Exactly is a Nexus 4000
Cisco Nexus 4001I Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter og Cisco
Vmware vSphere 4 the CPU Cheduler
Nyttige Hyper-V PowerShell script
Increasing the Availability of Virtualised Applications and Services

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010
Windows 7 Deployment Tools part 1 – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee530017.aspx
Windows 7 Deployment Tools part 2 – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee524789.aspx
Windows 7 Deployment Tools part 3 – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee529974.aspx
Windows 7 Deployment Tools part 4 – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee530027.aspx

Litt om  lisensnøkler – MAK og KMS

Hver fjerde it-sjef i Norge prioriterer virtualisering i 2009. Gartner spår en vekst i salg av virtualiserings-software på 43 prosent i samme tidsrom. Det er mange tilbydere der ute, og mulighetene er overveldende. På dette lynkurset deler våre fagspesialister Madjid Saeedi og Lars Jostein Silihagen sine erfaringer med virtualisering av servere og drift og overvåkning av virtuell infrastruktur. De lærer deg hvordan du velger riktig tilbyder og hvilke muligheter de ulike teknologien gir deg. Viktig for deg som skal investere!

Lynkurset vil bli holdt i Sterias lokaler tirsdag 25 august, meld deg på her: http://www.steria.no/gloria/id/11004464/subid/0

Stein Wilhelmsen

Stein Wilhelmsen, Senior Partner SE, VMware Norge holdt en presentasjon om VMware vSphere 4 og ”whats new” og ”Virtual Data Center Operating System”  under VirtualPower 09. Presentasjonen med video finner dere her: http://commaxx.exss.no/webtv/pages/?clipid=22&sid=0  (ca 45 minutter)

Part 1: Grunnleggende om allocated memory, reservations, limits, shares og resource pools. http://www.van-lieshout.com/2009/04/esx-memory-management-part-1/

Part2: Hvordan den enkelte virtuelle maskin bruker minne http://www.van-lieshout.com/2009/05/esx-memory-management-part-2/

Part3: Transparent Page Sharing (TPS), ballooning, tips til bruk av esxtop, swapping og idle memory tax.  http://www.van-lieshout.com/2009/05/esx-memory-management-%e2%80%93-part-3/

De som ønsker å gå i dybden for hvordan limit innstillinger påvirker de virtuelle maskinene bør lese denne bloggartikkelen av VMGuru.com, Scott Herold: http://www.vmguru.com/index.php/articles-mainmenu-62/mgmt-and-monitoring-mainmenu-68/96-memory-behavior-when-vm-limits-are-set

• VMware.com – vSphere Product page
• VMTN – Introducing VMware vSphere 4 – The Industry’s First Cloud Operating System
• VMTN – VMware vSphere Resources And Webcasts Customers Should Know About!
• VMTN Community – VMware vSphere Community is here – plus some rearrangement…
• DABCC.com – Vmware vSphere – Intial Comparison with Hyper-V and Xen
• Vroom – Database sizing charts for vSphere 4.0
• VMware (pdf’s) – vSphere list of Key Features
• VMware (pdf’s) – vStorage: What’s New Whitepaper
• VMware (pdf’s) – vNetwork: What’s New Whitepaper
• VMware (pdf’s) – vSphere Pricing, Packaging, and Licensing Whitepaper
• HyperVizor – The ultimate vSphere4 learning path
• SearchVMware.com – A guide to VMware vSphere 4
• Redmondmag.com – Vmware Unveils vSphere

..og for de som virkelig er på hugget kan vSphere screensaver lastes ned fra denne linken..: http://www.xs4all.nl/~omerta/vsphere_screensaver.zip

The presentation is written in Norwegian.

The book looks so far very good, too.

http://www.vmware.com/sdk/vitk_win/index.html?src=EM_0803_VMW_OTHER_VITOOLKIT_DOWNLOAD

After you have installed PowerShell and VI Toolkit on your computer, you have to add the VI Toolkit powershell snapin:

# List the snappins you allready have installed:
PS C:\> get-pssnapin

# List registered snapins:
PS C:\> Get-PSSnapin -Registered

# Add the VMware.VimAutomation.Core snappin:
PS C:\> Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

# Connect to your Virtual Center server:
PS C:\> Get-VIServer x.x.x.x -User admin -Password xxxxxxx

# List virtual maschines who are powered on:
PS C:\> get-vm | Where-Object {$_.powerstate -eq ‘PoweredOn’}

• Support for Quad-Core AMD Opteron 8300 and 2300 series processor families (codename Barcelona)
• Support for Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5200 series processors (codename Wolfdale)
• Enhanced patch management
• Support for new / updated guest OS; Windows 2003 R2 Data Center Edition and Red Hat Enterprise 5.1
• Update for service console from RHEL3 U8 to RHEL3 U9

http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/releasenotes_esx303.html#resolvedissues