Event Review: Using Windows System Resource Manager with Windows Server 2003 (Session TNT1-137)

Session Outline

Windows System Resource Manager with Windows Server 2003 (WSRM) provides resource management and enables the allocation of resources, including processor and memory resources, among multiple applications based on business priorities. With WSRM, you can implement tight operational processes to predictably meet your service-level requirements, maximize the return on your IT investments, and manage a changing mix of workloads. This session covers the business requirements for server consolidation and utilization. It then looks at WSRM including usage scenarios, resource allocation policies, accounting, and advanced usage of WSRM.

Session Agenda

• Business requirements for server consolidation and utilization
  
• Microsoft Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) usage scenarios
  
• WSRM resource allocation policies
  
• WSRM accounting
  
• Advanced usage of WSRM
  

Related Links

• Windows System Resource Manager
  
• Windows System Resource Manager Technology Center
  
• Windows System Resource Manager Fast Facts
  
• Windows System Resource Manager Interactive Simulation
  

Microsoft Press Books

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator's Companion
  

  Summary: This comprehensive administrator's reference describes operating system features and capabilities and provides easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for on-the-job results with the Windows Server 2003 family.
  

• Microsoft. Windows. Server 2003 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
  

  Summary: Don't get caught at work without this handy guide to Windows Server 2003. It puts all the answers to questions about system administration at your fingertips.

• Microsoft. Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit
  

  Summary: Get the essential reference for managing and optimizing Windows Server 2003 with expert insights and best practices from those who know the technology best-Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), field consultants, and the Microsoft Windows Server team. Featuring six volumes of in-depth technical information along with 200+ timesaving tools and scripts, this official Microsoft Resource Kit helps Windows administrators optimize performance, implement security services, manage users and computers with Group Policy, master the Registry, troubleshoot Windows servers, and automate administration.
  

Third-Party Books

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Unleashed, 2nd Edition
  

  Summary: Get a fresh perspective on planning, designing, implementing, and migrating to a Windows Server 2003 environment. The authors rely on their experience from several large client implementations to compile best practices, installation and migration tips and tricks, performance optimization techniques, configuration tuning, and server management techniques.

• The Ultimate Windows Server 2003 System Administrator's Guide
  

  Summary: Windows Server 2003, the successor to Windows 2000 and Windows NT, accommodates the seamless exchange of information through Web services. It delivers the increased flexibility and power needed to administer networks as global entities, but its enhanced management tools and security features present as many challenges as opportunities. This book helps readers negotiate these challenges while taking advantage of the opportunities

• Inside Windows Server 2003
  

  Summary: This book contains comprehensive information on deploying, managing, and troubleshooting systems using both Windows Server 2003 and its predecessor. Each chapter contains a lively feature description followed by extensively illustrated procedures for setting up and managing each service.

• Inside Active Directory: A System Administrator's Guide
  

  Summary: This book helps provide a solid understanding of Active Directory fundamentals. It demonstrates how Active Directory can store and access data and how it uses industry standards such as LDAP. Numerous diagrams and tables explain the sometimes complex technologies involved in migrating to Windows 2000 from Windows NT or other platforms.

Training and Certification

• Course 2274: Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment: Five days Instructor-led
  

  Summary: This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage accounts and resources in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment. The course is intended for systems administrator and systems engineer candidates who are responsible for managing accounts and resources. These tasks include managing user, computer, and group accounts; managing access to network resources; managing printers; managing an organizational unit in a network based on the Active Directory directory service; and implementing Group Policy to manage users and computers

• Course 2275: Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment Three days Instructor-led
  

  Summary: This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills that are needed to effectively maintain server resources, monitor server performance, and safeguard data on a computer running one of the operating systems in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family.