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Virtual machine provisioning and configuration As a server virtualization administrator, one of your chief goals is finding ways to ease the administrative and management burdens of your virtualized server environment. How you provision virtual servers and configure virtual machines (VMs) is a critical piece of streamlining those management challenges, especially as your virtualized environment grows. In this section, we offer advice, case studies and step-by-step tutorials on efficient, rapid provisioning and configuration software for VMs; automated tools to provision, configure, and load-balance virtual machines; using PowerShell scripts to power on VMs, how to use templates to provision and manage VMs; and we coach you on how to compare provisioning and configuration tools from various virtualization providers.



IN THIS TOPIC:	NEWS (23) , EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE (48) , REFERENCE & LEARNING (2) , WEBCASTS (1) , DEFINITIONS (2)


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	Xen to get fault tolerance: News in brief SearchServerVirtualization.com \| 10 Nov 2009 ARTICLE - A new open source project strives to bring VMware-like fault tolerance to Xen hypervisor environments, and other news in brief.


	VMware takes first stab at capacity planning: News in brief SearchServerVirtualization.com \| 20 Oct 2009 ARTICLE - VMware has released the long-awaited CapacityIQ -- but only for ESX 3.x virtualization environments; and more.


	Virtualization management tool adoption stalls SearchServerVirtualization.com \| 08 Oct 2009 ARTICLE - Whether it's the economic downturn or a perceived lack of need, IT managers aren't buying third-party management tools for their virtualization environments.


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EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 48


	A Sun VirtualBox P2V server conversion walkthrough 24 Nov 2009 TIP - Sun VirtualBox physical-to-virtual conversions can be daunting because the offering lacks native support for a P2V conversion. But fear not; VirtualBox P2V is possible.


	The top free VMware scripting and command-line tools 15 Nov 2009 TIP - This section of our virtualization freeware guide explains how free VMware scripting and command-line tools such as VMware PowerCLI automate key vSphere administration tasks.


	The best free virtualization tools guide 15 Nov 2009 TIP - This best free virtualization tools guide covers topics such as free command-line tools and VM performance monitoring tools.


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REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 2 of 2


	Server consolidation and virtualization project planning guide SearchServerVirtualization.com \| 08 Jul 2009 GUIDE - Combining server consolidation with virtualization can boost server utilization and reduce power consumption. Here are strategies to maximize server consolidation project benefits.


	Managing Microsoft Virtual Server performance SearchServerVirtualization.com \| 20 Jun 2007 SCREENCAST - This screencast provides a live demonstration of how you can manage Virtual Server's weight-based and constraint-based resource allocation tools for optimal VM performance.


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VM Performance Tuning - Expert Webcast

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PREMIERED:	05 OCT 2006, 09:00 EDT (13:00, GMT)
SUMMARY:	Attend this expert webcast to learn about the most common Virtual Machine (VM) performance challenges and how to overcome them.


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DEFINITIONS: 1 - 2 of 2


	virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) 06 Apr 2007 WORD - Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is the practice of hosting a desktop operating system within a virtual machine (VM) running on a centralized server. VDI is a variation on the client/server computing model, sometimes ...


	VSMP (virtual symmetric multiprocessing) 01 Dec 2006 WORD - VSMP (virtual symmetric multiprocessing) is a method of SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) in which two or more virtual processors are mapped inside a single virtual machine or partition. This makes it possible to assign ...


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Capacity planning for virtualization, P2V, V2V and V2P migration, Virtual machine performance management, Virtual machine monitoring, troubleshooting and alerting

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