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Got any zombies on your network? That probably depends on how you define “zombie,” right? Virtual Machine Zombies A zombie could be a lost, lone virtual machine languishing on your network. Or a zombie might be a dummy machine, taken over by a spammer, sending out spam messages whenever it’s ordered to. Whether you’re…
Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Brandon Shopp about improving systems management for Microsoft environments. He explores a range of considerations. Microsoft offers some of its own monitoring options, such as System Center and Windows Admin…
Hello there, we have been successfully using Orion NPM 10.4.1 to monitor our Hyper V estate for a while but now we have added a few new Hyper V servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 the statuses are not being displayed and we get a "Host Status: Could not poll" message. The servers respond correctly to remote…
The ability to monitor and send alerts based on the status of Hyper-V replicas is critical to our operation. It is our DR strategy to use Hyper-V replica and we have found occasions when some Replica's have stopped replicating. Currently we have to run PowerShell to monitor this across multiples sites and multiple…
In NPM 10.4 the Vitualization section recently includes a Hyper-V section. Is there any information available on this? NPM don't automaticaly reconize my Hyper-V servers.
Disk performance statistics are not functional for VMs when they are hosted on Microsoft Scale-Out File Server. Specifically important is disk latency read and write, disk IOPs, bytes per read and bytes per write. Scale-Out File Server for Application Data Overview Deploy Hyper-V over SMB This is the defacto enterprise…
We compared vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 2012 in terms of their capabilities of Storage Management, Memory Handling & CPU Scheduling earlier in this blog series. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how both the hypervisors help manage data and workload migration and provide virtual machine (VM) mobility. VMware has been offering…
We compared the analyzed vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 2012 in terms of their capabilities of Storage Management and Memory Handling earlier in this blog series. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how both the hypervisors perform CPU scheduling and manage CPU resources. When there’s workload running on a virtual machine (VM), the…
Picking up the discussion from where we left in Part 1 – Storage, let’s move on to explore how vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 2012 handle virtualization memory management. Memory Management in Hyper-V 2012 Hyper-V 2012 offers some distinct memory management options that help avoid memory over-commitment and efficient virtual…
This is one of the most highly trending topics storage and virtualization admins are trying to follow and cash in on. Server virtualization has evolved over the years beyond myths and apprehensions into a stable, secure and much-sought technology for improved productivity and resource efficiency. VMware has been the major…
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