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Symon’s Server & Cloud Resources for IT Professionals – Volume 2

Posted By: Symon Perriman
Publish Date: 11/01/2012

Hi,

This is the second of a series of blog posts showing you some of the best server and cloud resources produced by Microsoft.  My goal is to help IT Professionals understand our products and capabilities so they can start taking advantage of the industry’s leading datacenter technologies.  These resources are based on a Microsoft internal newsletter that I am now sharing with our customers.

Previous posts

• Volume 1 (October, 2012)

You can connect with me on any of these networks to stay on top of the latest cloud resources:

• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Twitter @SymonPerriman
• TechNet Videos and Training
• The Edge Show for IT Professionals

Private Cloud Exam Resources

Many people are now taking the Microsoft Leaning exams 70-246 (Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012) and 70-247 (Configuring and Deploying a Private Cloud with System Center 2012) for the MCSE Private Cloud Certification.

Here are list of resources that may be helpful:

• Exam Overviews
• 70-246: Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012
• 70-247: Configuring and Deploying a Private Cloud with System Center 2012
• Microsoft Learning Training
• 10751A: Configuring and Deploying a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 (5 Days)
• 10750A: Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 (5 Days)
• Private Cloud Evaluation Bits
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx
• Guided Private Cloud Virtual Labs
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh913012.aspx
• Private Cloud Virtual Labs on TechNet
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/bb539977
• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Configuring & Deploying Microsoft’s Private Cloud
• Enhancing Your Business & Career with the Private Cloud
• Introduction to the Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud
• Introduction to the Microsoft Private Cloud
• Introduction to System Management & Service Delivery
• Introduction to Virtualisation
• Licensing the Private Cloud
• Microsoft Solution Accelerators for the Private Cloud
• Microsoft Virtualization  for VMware Professionals
• Management
• Platform
• VDI
• Preparing the Datacenter for a Private Cloud
• Private Cloud
• Application Services Management
• Infrastructure Components
• Infrastructure Management
• Service Delivery & Automation
• System Center 2012
• Advisor
• Configuration Manager
• Data Protection Manager
• Licensing
• Operations Manager
• Orchestrator & Service Manager
• Virtual Machine Manager
• What’s New
• Understanding Microsoft’s High-Availability Solutions

Microsoft Assessment & Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7 Released!

Get ready for Windows Server 2012 with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0.  The latest version of the MAP Toolkit adds several new planning scenarios that help you build for the future with agility and focus while lowering the cost of delivering IT.  Download MAP 7.0 and begin planning your server deployments today!

New capabilities allow you to:

• Understand your readiness to deploy Windows Server 2012 in your environment
• Determine Windows 8 readiness
• Investigate how Windows Server and System Center can manage your heterogeneous environment through VMware migration and Linux server virtualization assessments
• Size your desktop virtualization needs for both Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and session-based virtualization using Remote Desktop Services
• Ready your information platform for the cloud with the SQL Server 2012 discovery and migration assessment
• Evaluate your licensing needs with usage tracking for Lync 2010, active users and devices, SQL Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012

Resources

• Download the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 7.0.
• Download of the Getting Started Guide for the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit.
• Download of the Training Kit for the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit.
• Get more related resources for the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit.

Private Cloud Evaluation Guide Updates

The Private Cloud Evaluation Guide is built to give you the necessary information to evaluate the private cloud. In this evaluation guide, you will go through an entire scenario that you can use to evaluate the private cloud on your own premises in a proof of concept environment. The first part will walk you through deploying and configuring the infrastructure for the private cloud. The second part will go through the service model and application performance management as well as how to gain operational benefits through service delivery and automation. 

The guide has an introduction to the Microsoft private cloud, then an overview of deploying and configuring the infrastructure for the private cloud, and finally it discusses the service model and application performance management as well as how to gain operational benefits through service delivery and automation.

Get the guide here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/6/2/B62D29FD-4C1D-47C0-AA4D-1E6C898ACBE8/Microsoft%20Private%20Cloud%20Evaluation%20Guide.pdf

Private Cloud Economics Tools Updates

We have updated the Private Cloud Economics whitepaper, Private Cloud Economics and the Server Virtualization  calculators to reflect Windows Server 2012 (& ECI) pricing and licensing.   With WS 2012, our licensing cost advantage holds (several times less expensive than VMware depending on VM density) and there is no charge or tax for any virtualization, memory, or density increases.

Resources

• Private Cloud Economics whitepaper
• Private Cloud Economics Tool
• Calculate the licensing cost of creating a Microsoft based Private Cloud solution
• Discover the benefits of Microsoft over VMware for building private clouds
• Learn how customers like Pella switched from VMware to a Microsoft private cloud to improve IT service delivery
• Server Virtualization Tool
• Calculate the cost of creating a Microsoft based Server Virtualization solution
• Discover the licensing & cost benefits of Microsoft vs. VMware based Server Virtualization solutions

Windows Server & Cloud Platform Blog

The Windows Server team regularly posts announcements, events, customer success stories and much more on their team blog. 

Here are their recent posts:

• October 24 - Windows Azure Service Bus Comes to Windows Server
• October 17 - In case you missed it: Richard Fichera of Forrester on Windows Server 2012
• October 16 - Customer Spotlight: Marquette University reins in storage costs with Windows Server 2012, goes with Hyper-V over VMware
• October 16 - Microsoft Reaches Definitive Agreement to Acquire StorSimple
• October 10 - Survey data in NetworkWorld says: Watch out VMware, because Microsoft is coming.
• October 9 - MMS 2013 in Las Vegas, April 8-12
• October 8 - Bringing Windows Azure Services to Windows Server – Beta Release
• September 18 - Windows Server 2012 Ask the Expert Sessions
• September 12 - Important Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps
• September 10 - Customer Insights on Windows Server 2012, Virtualization and Private Clouds Presented in an Infographic
• September 10 - System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Beta and Windows Intune Update
• September 10 - System Center 2012 SP1 Beta available - evaluate with Windows Server 2012
• September 7 - Windows Azure Online Backup
• September 6 - Windows Server 2012 Facts and Figures
• September 5 - Windows Server 2012 and Dell – A Powerful Portfolio of Private Cloud Solutions
• September 4 - Windows Server 2012 is here -- and so is the Cloud OS
• August 28 - Download Forefront UAG 2010 SP2
• August 14 - Virtualizing Enterprise Applications With Confidence
• August 10 - FreeBSD Support for Windows Server Hyper-V Available
• July 16 - Go Beyond Virtualization with the "Switch to Hyper-V" Program
• July 12 - Bringing Windows Azure Services to Windows Server
• July 9 - Independent Third Party Assessments of Hyper-V
• June 22 - Beyond Server Virtualization: Common Technologies for Your Move to Cloud Computing

Please let me know if there is anything else you are looking for by posting a comment on this page.

Thanks!

Symon Perriman
Technical Evangelist
Microsoft

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