Features

Features

• Choosing a wireless networking vendor

  When selecting wireless networking vendors as partners, you want to make sure you fully understand the benefits as a reseller. This Partner Program Directory examines wireless vendors across the board, including major vendors and some smaller ones. ...  Continue Reading

• Using the reliability and resource monitor in Windows 7

  Solutions providers can ensure Windows 7 operating system stability by using the reliability monitor. The resource monitor will help keep track of system usage, including CPU.  Continue Reading

• Windows task manager: Viewing Windows 7 processes and applications

  If applications or processes in a customer's Windows 7 operating system aren't responding, you can use the task manager to view, end and restart them.  Continue Reading

• How to save Perfmon data using Windows 7 performance monitor

  There is a great deal of performance data to sort through in Windows 7, but the performance monitor uses data collector sets to allow you to view and analyze collected data.  Continue Reading

• Using system properties to configure Windows 7 options

  The system properties dialogue box in Windows 7 is split up into five tabs that let you change your customer's computer name or dual-boot settings.  Continue Reading

• Citrix XenServer 5.6: What's new?

  Citrix XenServer 5.6 offers advanced hardware support and other new features, such as live memory snapshots, but it lacks notable management  Continue Reading

• 802.11 wireless network attacks: Prevent them on customers' networks

  In order to stop wireless network attacks on behalf of your customers, you must understand wireless network attacks. This chapter excerpt examines 802.11 attacks, including the TJX security breach, and how WEP, WPA and WPA2 can be cracked.  Continue Reading

• Windows 7 administrative tools: Creating shortcuts

  Windows 7 administrative tools such as the iSCSI Initiator may be under your radar, but you can use them to help customers more easily manage everyday tasks.  Continue Reading

• NAS clustering: What it is and how it's being used

  Find out about the different meanings of the term NAS clustering, how it's being used for scalability, its limitations and how it differs from file virtualization.  Continue Reading

• VSphere management FAQ: Virtual machine host resources

  Get answers to your frequently asked questions about vSphere management, including information on virtual machine (VM) host resources and how to configure VM settings.  Continue Reading

• NAC security: Network access control policy, product best practices

  A network access control (NAC) policy can make or break the security of your customer's network. Learn about the benefits of NAC and implementation in this cheat sheet comprised of our best NAC security content.  Continue Reading

• Distributed Resource Scheduler and vSphere management: An FAQ podcast

  Solutions providers can use VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler to improve vSphere management for customers, maximize resources and monitor virtual machines.  Continue Reading

• Unified computing alliances: Opportunity for VARs

  Find out what opportunities the unified computing alliances among vendor heavyweights such as Cisco/EMC/VMware and NetApp/VMware/Cisco hold for storage VARs, in this FAQ podcast with StorageIO's Greg Schulz.  Continue Reading

• HA cluster configuration: Requirements and steps

  Consider these requirements and settings, such as admission control, prior to a HA cluster configuration and use the HA restart priority and isolation response post-configuration.  Continue Reading

• VMware HA implementation and ESX/ESXi host addition

  Implementing VMware HA, which offers automatic failover for virtual machines, requires you to ensure the DNS server is configured and to add ESX/EXSi hosts to a VMware HA cluster.  Continue Reading