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.
KVM has made a place for itself among the industry’s most outstanding hypervisors for Linux. Currently, this hipervisor is deployed in a wide variety of processor architectures; even in mobile devices.
In addition, KVM is an important element in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), since it drives the networking software to hardware with high performance and low cost.
Top500.org has published one more time the list of the 500 world’s most powerful supercomputers. And once more, Linux is the operating system with the strongest presence in these machines.
98’8% of supercomputers run Linux, and the remaining 1,2% run Unix.
This list is published twice a year and the last six rankings had Tianhe-2 in the first position. This supercomputer was developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology
EMC Corporation today announced the availability of a range of products and solutions designed to seamlessly connect primary storage and data protection systems to private and public clouds.
As a result, organizations will be better equipped to take advantage of both the agility and unlimited scalability of public cloud services and the control and security of a private cloud infrastructure. Customers will be able to deploy a storage environment where data can be automatically tiered to both public and private clouds.
oVirt and VMware have been the focus of our blog during last two weeks. The most read articles are related to UDS Enterprise integration with oVirt and VMware vSphere.
In case you haven’t yet had the opportunity to read these posts, below you can find the links so that you can keep up to date with the most outstanding virtualization and Open Source news according to our followers:
Video: UDS Enterprise & oVirt VDI
