Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Microsoft is developing System Center Operations Manager 2007, the sucessor of MOM 2005.

Important Changes:

Proactively manages business critical IT services including applications, the supporting infrastructure and hardware, and end user clients.
 
Reduce the complexities of managing your IT environment by providing a monitoring solution that is designed with ease of use in mind.
 
Include management packs with prescriptive knowledge developed by the application and OS development teams at Microsoft and verified in production deployments to improve monitoring, troubleshooting, and problem resolution for more than 50 Microsoft applications and Windows server components.
 
If you want to test the System center Operations Manager 2007, register to the Beta Program on :

http://connect.microsoft.com/programdetails.aspx?ProgramDetailsID=500

Microsoft introduces in Microsoft VirtualServer R2, support to some Linux as Guest.

To better the performance in this scenarios, is recommend install Virtual Server Additions on Guest machines.

To get the VirtualServer Additions to Linux, access this url :

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/evaluation/linuxguestsupport/default.mspx

Important, the following Enterprise/Standart distributions are supported to install additions :

• Enterprise distributions:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (update 6)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0
 
 
• Standard distributions:
• Red Hat Linux 7.3
• Red Hat Linux 9.0
• SuSE Linux 9.2
• SuSE Linux 9.3
• SuSE Linux 10.0
 
 

If you want to download the free version, access the following link :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6DBA2278-B022-4F56-AF96-7B95975DB13B&displaylang=en

Attention to the requerid operational systems and hardwares below.

Requirements for x86 version
Supported Operating Systems
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
• Windows XP Professional Edition
• Windows XP Service Pack 2
 

Requirements for Use
• Computer with a 550 MHz or faster processor; 1.0 GHz or faster recommended
• Requires an Intel Celeron, Pentium III, Pentium 4, or Xeon processor; or AMD Opteron, Athlon, Athlon 64, Athlon X2, Sempron, or Duron processor
• All physical processors supported by the host operating system
• Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, or Datacenter Edition or later
• Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition or Premium Edition
• Windows XP Professional (for non-production use only)
• 256 MB of RAM minimum (additional memory needed for each guest operating system)
• 2 GB of available hard-disk space (additional disk space needed for each guest operating system)
• Super VGA (800 × 600) or higher-resolution monitor recommended