Hovhannes Avoyan

At Monitis we want to make the lives of web developers and system administrators easy! We have reviewed the 10 most popular open source ecommerce platforms for Joomla and Drupal and would like to share our thoughts with you. In our two articles there is a list and short analysis of the 10 open source ecommerce software products to help guide you in finding a solution that best suits your needs. Our first article will cover the following 5 products/vendors: Hikashop, SimpleCaddy, OpenCart, redShop and RokQuickCart. 1. Hikashop – www.hikashop.com Developed by the private French company, Hikari Software, Hikashop is used as an ecommerce Joomla extension. The application provides a wide variety of marketing tools, statistics and a convenient dashboard to suit any website ecommerce needs. Pros Easier to configure in comparison to similar products. Excellent customer ... (more)

Performance Tuning Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

This is our second article in our series about tuning performance of your Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V environment. In our first article we discussed the considerations you should make when selecting the hardware components for your Hyper-V server(s). We mentioned in our first article that the way the hypervisor virtualizes the physical processors is by time-slicing between the virtual processors. Obviously, moving a workload into a virtual machine increases CPU usage. In this article we’ll discuss how to optimize the processor(s).p VM Integration Services The VM Integration Se... (more)

Performance Tuning Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V: Hardware Selection

After our previous article “XenDesktop on Microsoft Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V: Best Practices”, we decided to expand on this series and post some additional articles that are more specific to Hyper-V itself and in particular, tuning performance of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. We’ll discuss processor, memory, disk I/O, and network I/O tuning tips, but first let’s look at the type of hardware you would need to ensure Hyper-V performs well when running multiple virtual machines. After all; all virtual machines that run on a Hyper-V system share the same hardware. The hardware consi... (more)

Monitor Everything with Monitis – And do it easily with PowerShell – Part 13

Monitoring out of Paper with Monitis (Printer Monitoring) Last time, we scratched the surface of what you can do with performance counters and Monitis.  Today, we’ll show you a fun performance counter to help automate your office, and also show you how you can use the Monitis module to make and updating custom monitors a lot simpler. One of the fun sets of performance counters are the printer counters: Get-Counter -ListSet *print*queue* | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Paths You can see all of the out of paper errors, for all printers on a machine, with this line: Get-Counter "\Prin... (more)

Virtual Machines: Usage and Performance

Virtualization vs Virtual Machines Virtualization is the process or system that separates the physical hardware from its operating system to provide greater utilization of IT resources and a more flexible system. Virtual machines are a software representation of a physical computer with its own set of virtual hardware within which an operating system and applications are loaded. Virtualization Challenges Developing a virtualized system can have its benefits, but the hidden cost associated with such a system is seldom considered. A company seeking to implement a virtualized system ... (more)