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SCOM: Moving the Opsdb Datawarehouse to another drive

April 13th, 2011 by

Recently I got a question of a customer to move the Opsdb Datawarehouse (DW) to another drive because the disk on which it was originally installed was not big enough. In fact they wanted to move the DW to an iscsi disk to boost performance. To verify whether there would be an issue or it …

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Preparing SCOM for cross platform monitoring

April 8th, 2011 by

Today at a customer I came across a problem with cross platform monitoring. They had several Linux servers running with RedHat distro. They installed the Linux monitoring pack for cross platform monitoring their Linux environment. They installed all the agents on the Linux servers but did not configure the proper action accounts to perform the …

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SCOM: #Exchange 2010 SP1 MP is here

April 8th, 2011 by

Today the updated management pack for Exchange 2010 with support for SP1 is published. It can be downloaded from the MS Download site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7150bfed-64a4-42a4-97a2-07048cca5d23 The new version is: 14.02.0071.0 Be sure to download also the explanatory doc which holds all the changes to this management pack. Some great info in there! Download the correct file …

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First insight into SCOM 2012: What’s up next…

April 8th, 2011 by

There were actually quite some sessions which gave a good preview of the SCOM2012 version which is pre-beta now and will become RTM by the end of 2012. Until then more and more features will be communicated. One of the most interesting features actually is that SCOM 2012 will tackle one of the biggest nightmares …

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SCVMM Dynamic Memory: Do we need it?

April 8th, 2011 by

Among a lot of new things implemented with the recent SP release for Windows Server 2008 R2 were also 2 nice features for Hyper-V. Dynamic memory and Remote FX. This blog post I’ll discuss Dynamic Memory. Dynamic Memory solves a question a lot of customers (and admins) ask me when implementing an Hyper-V environment. How …

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