Win 7 troubleshooting tools and tips / Managing Hyper-V

September 16, 2009 Published by  SearchSystemsChannel.com Systems Channel Advisor Windows 7 troubleshooting tools and tips Paul McFedries, Sams Publishing After you've determined the root cause of your customers' Windows 7 problems, it is equally important to know how to remediate the issues. Windows 7 comes with diagnostic tools -- together, they're called the Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure -- that can detect impending failures and alert you to take corrective or mitigating action (such as backing up your files). The sections in this chapter excerpt describe these tools and gives information on understanding disk diagnostics, resource exhaustion detection, the Windows Memory Diagnostics tool and more. RELATED: Troubleshooting Windows 7 problems by determining the root cause Managing Hyper-V with Citrix Essentials vs. Microsoft SCVMM If you're trying to figure out whether to manage Hyper-V with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager or Citrix Essentials, this tip pegs the essential selection criteria. Read this tip. Tuning vSphere 4 hardware for optimal performance If your customers want to implement vSphere 4, this tip tells you how to advise them on hardware, achieve maximum performance per host and suggests recommendations for disk I/O. Read this tip. LTech adds Google Apps Power Panel to cloud repertoire The LTech Power Panel is hosted on the Google App Engine cloud platform and gives solutions providers advanced management options for Google Apps deployments. Read this Systems Channel News Roundup.   ADVERTISEMENT   Get answers to all your channel questions on ITKnowledgeExchange.com Get answers to your vendor, managed services, product evaluation and vendor support questions today. View all the latest channel related questions and answers. Ask your IT questions today and get answers from your peers. View all channel related questions recently answered by the IT Knowledge Exchange community.   Need systems channel answers? Ask your own question or browse thousands of IT answers on IT Knowledge Exchange. ABOUT THIS E-NEWSLETTER This e-newsletter is published by SearchSystemsChannel.com, part of the TechTarget network. TechTarget provides IT professionals with the resources they need to perform their jobs: Web sites, newsletters, forums, blogs, white papers, webcasts, events and more. Copyright 2009 TechTarget. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. If you no longer wish to receive Systems Channel Advisor from SearchSystemsChannel.com go to unsubscribe: http://searchSystemsChannel.techtarget.com/u?track=NL-677&em=charles%40cpedley.com&uid=6486075&eid=725280& Unsubscribe requests may take up to 24 hours to process; you may receive additional mailings during that time. A confirmation e-mail will be sent when your request has been successfully processed. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. Contact Us: SearchSystemsChannel.com Member Services 117 Kendrick Street, Suite 800 Needham, MA 02494 Contact: Webmaster@techtarget.com When you access content from this newsletter, your information may be shared with the sponsors or future sponsors of that content as described in our Privacy Policy: PRIV LINK