Dugie’s Pensieve

It’s been a longer than I would have liked, but here is a rollup of links I thought interesting, but didn’t blog at the time:

• MS WINCAT-  Virtualization IT Administration Model - Allen Stewart is after your experiences; An Administration model that will win out and your thoughts on the topic because this should drive flexible administration models in virtualization products *Recommended Reading*
• Moving a virtualized data center « Documenting a virtualization project - Field notes on relocating 150 servers (30 physical servers) to a new data centre 60 km away
• VDI: Operational and stable - real life from the field notes on their production VDI implimentation
• VMRCplus on Microsoft Downloads
• Cache and memory with many-cores - Virtualization consumes more cores and more simultaneous threads — this means more contention for shared resources, specifically cache space and memory bandwidth. Good article covering this
• Tracing with VHDMount - functionality to see when something goes wrong when trying to mount a VHD file
• Upgrading Windows Server 2003 R2 to SP2 with WDS - If you upgrade Windows Server without belonging to a domain, WDS will NOT work when you try and configure it
• How do you route between Virtual Networks?  - Various ways from RRAS to Dedicate Routing VM
• Windows Server Platform Directions (Sean McGrane)  - improved hardware error handling, and server consolidation to improve server usage by using technologies like
• Windows Server Virtualization Scenarios and Features (Jeff Woolsey and Chris Corio)  - It looks in depth at the server consolidation, business continuity, development and test, and dynamic datacenter scenarios
• How to disable F12 keypress in WDS and RIS  - ’nuff said
• Blog P2V and all that - P2V alternatives to VSMT
• Backup!, Here Comes Protection - DPM and Virtual Server from the DPM blog