Dugie’s Pensieve

Well, System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) aka Carmine hit Beta 2 this week, so here are a couple of posts definitely worth checking out

• Windows Server Blog - Download SCVMM Beta 2 and you could win an Xbox 360 ?!  As always US only I’m afraid.
• DABCC Über Console - MVP Douglas Brown does a great writeup of SCVMM features and screenies
• VMM Beta 2 V2V - Tony Soper gives a run down on VMware to Microsoft VM conversion with the command line
• VMM Beta 2 What Are You Talking About - and again with a comprehensive glossary of all the SCVMM buzzwords
• VMM Beta 2 Reporting - and again with the A - Z of Ops Manager reporting (this rocks!)
• MM Beta 2 Built on Windows PowerShell - and again with Powershell.  Face it Powershell rocks, and SCVMM console is just a front end to powershell, why not cut out the middle man :)
• VMM Beta 2 How to P2V - and again with the command line P2V, very useful if you want to multi-batch many conversions

…on a side note there is over 11,000 registered users for SCVMM beta 2!  Lastly on almost relevant links, Hitachi have the 1Tb desktop drives to store all those VMs you are about to work with.  Ok so it’s only 930 Gb usuable by Windows, but what’s a few gig between friends.