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Microsoft has updated licensing for many server applications to be more in line with their Dynamic Systems Initiative. These chages that will take affect Septermber 1, 2008 will simplify moving application workloads between physical servers and more importantly among virtualized infrastructure. Anyone responsible for data center operations or server administration should review the license brief. See the full Microsoft Press Release.
Microsoft is offering a free e-learning clinic on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-v. The course is "Clinic 5935: Introducing Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008" and is intended teach hyper-v management and implementation skills to IT pros.
If you are running vmware ESX 3.5 Update 2 - you may want to check out this news from NeoWin.net. Quoted from the posted article…
“This was first reported yesterday [August 11, 2008] evening on both the VMWare Community forums and on DeployLinux.com. From what anyone can tell, there is a bug in the VMWare License Management code and it is causing any system that is running ESX 3.5U2 to not be able to boot this morning.” Continue reading the article at the source.
You may also find the post helpful from the vmware community site.
Tripwire recently released a tool to check the security configurationof VMware ESX Servers called ConfigCheck.
The free utility runs only on Windows and connects remotely to ESX hosts. The tool verifies the ESX configuration against a specific security guideline that VMware published.
Tripwire also has a free document that guides admins in correcting any reported configuration issues.
Tripwire also offers an enterprise version of this tool through BMC.
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Apple released the 10.5.3 update this week an is recommending all users update Leopard to this latest version. You can get the details and the download from Apple Support here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1141
You can get a list of all the Apple security updates here - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
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