1. World of HELIOS – CeBIT time
2. HELIOS Admin Tips & Tricks - Column heading
3. HELIOS cold spare agreement (SE003) on a different platform
4. HELIOS "mkisofs" – UDF disk image backup utility
2. HELIOS Admin Tips & Tricks - Column heading
3. HELIOS cold spare agreement (SE003) on a different platform
4. HELIOS "mkisofs" – UDF disk image backup utility
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HELIOS Newsletter 3/2007 |
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Dear HELIOS client,
Welcome to the latest information from the world of HELIOS. Keep your networking lead and stay one step ahead. Turn your colleagues on to this newsletter as well, subscription details are below. Enjoy the news.
Your HELIOS team
Helmut Tschemernjak, CEO & President
Welcome to the latest information from the world of HELIOS. Keep your networking lead and stay one step ahead. Turn your colleagues on to this newsletter as well, subscription details are below. Enjoy the news.
Your HELIOS team
Helmut Tschemernjak, CEO & President
1. World of HELIOS – CeBIT time
Like every year, CeBIT keeps Hannover busy and the weather went crazy during the show. It was very interesting to see the Sun 4500/4600 x64 based servers as well as Sun's new dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter. IBM showed a very impressive Virtualization Manager demo (upcoming), which migrates a running AIX system from one server to a second physical server without any interrupts for all running programs and connected clients. Microsoft didn't become tired to preach their Vista features, and Sony presented the PlayStation 3 powered by an IBM/Sony/Toshiba cell processor offering computing power unseen before.
Helmut Tschemernjak, HELIOS Software GmbH
2. HELIOS Admin Tips & Tricks - Column heading
Did you know that the column headings in HELIOS Admin can be re-ordered by selecting the column title and moving the columns? A control-click (or right-click) on the column title allows disabling (uncheck) columns you don't need. Here you can see how it works:
HELIOS Admin will remember this setting the next time you log in. Window location and size will be remembered as well. Also, column width is easily adjusted – simply click and drag the vertical divider between column headings. Note that a minimum window size is always enforced when you re-open HELIOS Admin, to allow identifying the window content.
3. HELIOS cold spare agreement (SE003) on a different platform
HELIOS changed its policy: Cold spare agreement customers can use a cold spare server on a different UNIX based platform, e.g.:
Main server is Sun SPARC (sol4), Backup server is Sun x86 (solx86)
Main server is Sun SPARC (sol4), Backup server is Linux (linux)
Main server is Mac Xserve-Intel (macosx86), Backup server is Mac G5 (macosx)
With today's modern storage and synchronization solutions server data can be copied to a different backup server platform, or just mounted if the file system is compatible between platforms. Basically, any HELIOS UB supported UNIX platform can be used as a cold spare server. This allows very flexible and cost-effective backup server configurations.
Ask your HELIOS partner for details.
4. HELIOS "mkisofs" – UDF disk image backup utility
In today's world, there seems to be a nifty open source utility for just about any basic computing need. But sometimes they just don't meet the expectations. When it came to the open source "mkisofs" utility, HELIOS developers set to work to turn it into a world-class tool, eliminating size limitations, and adding extensive cross-platform support. Now you can download the free HELIOS mkisofs, to archive Mac, Windows, and UNIX files, with their attributes preserved, into UDF disk images. If you want to try something really cool, set up HELIOS Script Server hot folders to enable server-based drag-and-drop disk image creation!
Learn more about it and get a free download:
http://www.helios.de/news/news07/mkisofs.phtml
Like every year, CeBIT keeps Hannover busy and the weather went crazy during the show. It was very interesting to see the Sun 4500/4600 x64 based servers as well as Sun's new dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter. IBM showed a very impressive Virtualization Manager demo (upcoming), which migrates a running AIX system from one server to a second physical server without any interrupts for all running programs and connected clients. Microsoft didn't become tired to preach their Vista features, and Sony presented the PlayStation 3 powered by an IBM/Sony/Toshiba cell processor offering computing power unseen before.
Helmut Tschemernjak, HELIOS Software GmbH
2. HELIOS Admin Tips & Tricks - Column heading
Did you know that the column headings in HELIOS Admin can be re-ordered by selecting the column title and moving the columns? A control-click (or right-click) on the column title allows disabling (uncheck) columns you don't need. Here you can see how it works:
HELIOS Admin will remember this setting the next time you log in. Window location and size will be remembered as well. Also, column width is easily adjusted – simply click and drag the vertical divider between column headings. Note that a minimum window size is always enforced when you re-open HELIOS Admin, to allow identifying the window content.
3. HELIOS cold spare agreement (SE003) on a different platform
HELIOS changed its policy: Cold spare agreement customers can use a cold spare server on a different UNIX based platform, e.g.:
Main server is Sun SPARC (sol4), Backup server is Sun x86 (solx86)
Main server is Sun SPARC (sol4), Backup server is Linux (linux)
Main server is Mac Xserve-Intel (macosx86), Backup server is Mac G5 (macosx)
With today's modern storage and synchronization solutions server data can be copied to a different backup server platform, or just mounted if the file system is compatible between platforms. Basically, any HELIOS UB supported UNIX platform can be used as a cold spare server. This allows very flexible and cost-effective backup server configurations.
Ask your HELIOS partner for details.
4. HELIOS "mkisofs" – UDF disk image backup utility
In today's world, there seems to be a nifty open source utility for just about any basic computing need. But sometimes they just don't meet the expectations. When it came to the open source "mkisofs" utility, HELIOS developers set to work to turn it into a world-class tool, eliminating size limitations, and adding extensive cross-platform support. Now you can download the free HELIOS mkisofs, to archive Mac, Windows, and UNIX files, with their attributes preserved, into UDF disk images. If you want to try something really cool, set up HELIOS Script Server hot folders to enable server-based drag-and-drop disk image creation!
Learn more about it and get a free download:
http://www.helios.de/news/news07/mkisofs.phtml
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