SCVMM 2012: Top Features That Will Rock Your Virtual World! Free webinar: January 31st, 2012 – 12pm EST / 6pm CET Click here to register! System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Cloud computing represents a new era of significant cost savings combined with unprecedented speed and agility. A core component of Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy is System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. This new version of SCVMM presents a huge shift from managing virtual machines to managing the entire virtualized datacenter. The shift is so dramatic that “System Center Data Center Manager” might be a more appropriate name. If you’re …

Performance problems are always difficult to address. Especially in case of a multi-tiered application that gets its data from another system. Multiple customers have contacted our support team with the question why their Live Maps Web Console is slow. In almost all cases it is because the Operations Manager RMS is too busy to handle all the requests generated by the SDK calls in time. But it is not a good thing to automatically blame another product if your product is not performing as expected. This is why we added a little feature to Live Maps v5.1.1 that will do …

When System Center Operations Manager alerts you to issues in your IT environment, Vital Signs is the perfect tool to quickly pinpoint and resolve the root cause of the problem. Vital Signs will automatically pull in the most current alerts from Operations Manager and display them in the context of the ever-evolving, real-time monitoring data. Further, historical data retrieved from Operations Manager will show you how your applications and servers should be performing. In this post, we will show a tiny feature that will enable you to get quickly from alert to cause to resolution. Once you have received an …