Dugie’s Pensieve

Ugh, what a week, definitely time for another speedlink post.  Here is a list of posts I thought were interesting this week:

• The Orcas March CTP VPC is available for download at 6 Gb
• New Exchange rebasing tool in a VM — It’s great to see ready to run VHDs getting some traction
• Interesting security posts for Virtual Server:  Virtual Server security; Improving security with virtual machine log file monitoring and Examining the compromised Virtual Server 2005 host
• Ben Armstrong has post an update to the HP ProLiant Server Sizer for Virtual Server 2005 R2
• Tony Soper has done a nice roundup of resources for the  Microsoft Virtualization Strategy — The items are platform, management, applications, interoperability and licensing  from Mike Neil’s post
• Virtual switch security- VMware, Virtual Server and XenExpress – Now this was very interesting from Chris Wolf.  Armed with Wireshark and some curiosity checks out the default network isolation of VMware Server, Virtual Server and XEN
• Lastly, a thought provoking discussion,  Does-virtualization-makes-monitoring-obsolete — No commentary for this one, just read the article :)

The last two post are recommend reading, and I’ll mostly likely post back on these two with more info.