templates

December 3, 2009 | 14 comments

While Microsoft marketing material claims Hyper-V and SCVMM can transfer large virtual machine files and templates over a SAN, the truth is that all VM transfers are done over the network. Only VMware ESX leverages high-speed storage area networking for VM migration.

July 22, 2009 | 15 comments

With SCVMM, VM templates are generalized with Sysprep before storing in the image library -- the original VM is destroyed and cannot be updated. vCenter only Syspreps after cloning.

February 19, 2009 | 4 comments

Hyper-V Linux guests (SUSE) do not yet have integration components or customization capabilities. Nor can you P2V a Linux system to Hyper-V.

January 22, 2009 | 1 comment

Although SLES 10 is supposedly supported by SCVMM 2008, administrators must look elsewhere for a Linux guest customization solution.

January 14, 2009 | 3 comments

Even though the VI Client does not offer creation of VMs with thin-provisioned disks, they may exist. Use a PowerShell script to identify them.