Nov 18 2008 10:00PM GMT
Posted by: David Davis
Networking,
Cisco
You don’t see a lot of Cisco and Microsoft “joint announcements”. In this case, Microsoft and Cisco jointly announced a new networking appliance - Windows on WAAS. The “WAAS” is Cisco’s Wide Area Application Services initiative (read more about WAAS here). WAAS is designed to accelerate application performance to remote offices and by having Windows 2008 Server virtualized inside the WAAS Appliance, there is no need for a separate Windows Server. In this way, the WAAS Appliance (and embedded Windows Server) can provide necessary branch office services like Active Directory (AD), DHCP, DNS, and File Services.
To learn more, take a look at Microsoft & Cisco’s Joint website on Windows on WAAS.
Also, check out these videos covering WAAS:
Nov 18 2008 8:30PM GMT
Posted by: David Davis
Network Management,
Virtualization,
VMware
In my latest SearchVMware.com article, I show you, step by step, how to enable and configure SNMP in VMware ESX and ESXi Server. From there, I move on to demonstrating a few different applications that can be used to monitor your VMware ESX Servers using SNMP. Monitoring VMware ESX Servers with SNMP applications is becoming more and more common so I hope you will read my article to learn more about it.
To see the full article, visit: Use SNMP with VMware ESX to monitor server statistics
Nov 14 2008 4:21PM GMT
Posted by: David Davis
Networking,
Cisco,
Routing
In a recent article, I covered the Cisco service provider router lineup. These amazing routers are what allow us to surf the web and watch IPTV. In this article I cover routers like the CRS-1 (Cisco’s most powerful router) and the new Cisco ASR 9000 and 1000 routers. To see the full article, read Check out the most powerful Cisco routers ever made
Nov 13 2008 8:49PM GMT
Posted by: David Davis
Cisco,
Virtualization,
VMware
Hyper9 is a VMware Virtual Infrastructure Management platform. The most powerful feature is its “search engine” for your virtual infrastructure. As Hyper9 can do so much, it is difficult to describe. That is why I recommend you watch this YouTube video covering Hyper9.
If you have a VMware Infrastructure with at least 2 servers, 20 VMs, and would like to obtain one of my exclusive Hyper9 Beta program invitations, please contact me, David Davis. I will put you in contact with the Hyper9 beta program manager.
Once you see Hyper9 in action, I think you will be as impressed as I was!
Nov 11 2008 5:57PM GMT
Posted by: David Davis
Cisco,
VMware
Besides Cisco’s Nexus 1000V virtualization switch that integrates with VMware ESX Server “4.0″, Cisco now has a much larger stake in the success of VMware. Cisco recently announced plans to take another stake in VMware with a $13.3 million investment. That meanst that Cisco now owns about 1.7 percent of VMware!
For more information, read these stories about the enhanced partnership between VMware and Cisco:
Oct 31 2008 3:15PM GMT
Posted by: David Davis
Networking,
CCIE,
Cisco
Are you interested in obtaining a CCIE Security certification? I have taken the lab and I can tell you it was very tough. Well, its about to get even harder. Cisco made this announcement concerning big changes to the Cisco CCIE Security lab exam…
Effective April 2009, important content changes will be implemented in the CCIE Security Lab exams. Candidates for lab exams scheduled mid-April 2009 or later should prepare using the v3.0 Lab Equipment and Software Versions and v.3 Blueprint. Candidates prior to mid- April 2009 should continue using the v2.0 Lab Equipment and Software Versions and v 2.0 blueprint.
Oct 31 2008 2:46PM GMT
Posted by: David Davis
Networking,
Cisco,
Network Management,
Security
In my latest article, I covered a new Cisco IOS feature used to prevent multipe admins from making changes on a Cisco router IOS, at the same time. This could prevent downtime and outages due to partially implemented or conflicting configurations. Read how to configure the new Cisco IOS configuration lock in my latest article.
Oct 31 2008 2:31PM GMT
Posted by: David Davis
Networking,
Network Management,
Virtualization,
VMware
I attended a webinar put on by PacketTrap network management this week. I was interested to see one of their latest features of their network management system - Perspective. The new feature is VMware Virtualization support.It works like this - PacketTrap uses SNMP to talk to each VMware ESX host system, pulling back statistics on host and guest performance. Perspective collects the following data:
- Hostname
- IP address
- Operating System
- Application Statistics
- Services Running
- CPU
- VM Memory
- Disk Usage by VM
You can download a free evaluation of PacketTrap Perspective and their virtualization features at their website.
Oct 27 2008 8:40PM GMT
Posted by: David Davis
Virtualization,
VMware
I recently completed my updated VMware ESX Server 3.5 video training course. For over a year now, my ESX 3.0 training course has been a “best seller”, helping thousands of IT Pro’s learn VMware ESX & VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure Suite. In the new course, I have updated videos on how to use VMware’s latest features. The videos include- Update Manager, Storage VMotion (SVMotion), and how to run ESX 3.5 inside VMware Workstation. The latest video offers all my video training (over 20 videos and 17+ hours) in Windows Media format AND in MP3 and iPod formats so that you can watch/listen to the VMware ESX training “on the go”. To view a free demo of my training course, please visit Train Signal.com - VMware ESX 3.5 Video Training.
