The Linux Foundation has launched a web series to bring awareness to the huge use of Linux in our everyday lives.
Under the title A world without Linux, these funny stories show the ubiquity of this technology while highlighting the importance of developers and supporting companies.
EMC keeps on moving towards Open Source. After open sourcing CoprHD project, announced at EMC World, they have just released RackHD under Apache 2.0 license.
In this way, this project can be improved by the community and vendors can include support for their infrastructure products.
If you are an IT administrator and you manage VMware vSphere virtualization platform, have a look at these useful tips:
-Don’t use Raw Device Mappings (RDMs). Try VMware Virtual Volumes instead, which is far less complex and more useful.
-See VMFS volumes and make sure they are upgraded.
-Use vSphere tags and categories. They help you organize virtual machines (VMs) in a customized way, considering elements not related to infrastructure. You can arrange them, for example, by production, development, off-site DR…
Nutanix Ready certification achieved by UDS Enterprise, the growing success of KVM Linux hypervisor and the integration of our multiplatform connection broker for Windows & Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) have been the most read posts in our blog during the last two weeks.
Find below the link to these topics in case you dind’t have the chance to read them yet:
Active Directory (AD) is one of the most used features in Windows Server. It enables administrators to manage devices and users implementing and reinforcing security policies. It also provides a centralized and hierarchical directory to manage all network resources.
In this post we’re talking about tools and best practices to ease restore & backup processes in AD.
Are you a Hyper-V user? Don’t miss these useful tips by Virtualization Review:
-Use PowerShell to create a list of all your virtual machines(VM) including name and IP address without logging or going to networking tab.
-Enable router guard and DHCP guard options to avoid unauthorized networking accesses. You can do it using VM libraries, PowerShell or Set-VMNetworkAdapter cmdlet.
