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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.



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	Free VMware Orchestrator could drive VM automation SearchServerVirtualization.com \| 24 Jun 2009 ARTICLE - VMware's vCenter Orchestrator, once available only as an add-on to VMware Lifecycle Manager, can now automate common tasks such as virtual machine provisioning and de-provisioning.


	Wind River launches its own hypervisor: News in brief SearchServerVirtualization.com \| 16 Jun 2009 ARTICLE - In today's news in brief, Wind River launched its own hypervisor as part of its multicore software technology for device development, and VMware signs a new OEM agreement with HP.


	Oracle to acquire virtualization provider Virtual Iron SearchServerVirtualization.com \| 13 May 2009 ARTICLE - Oracle will purchase Virtual Iron's technology to bolster Oracle VM's capacity utilization and virtual machine configuration capabilities.


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	Deploying and migrating virtual machines faster with VSM tools Submitted By: SearchServerVirtualization.com \| 01 Jul 2009 TIP - Migrating and deploying virtual machines can be faster and less of a hassle with virtual systems management tools such as inventory management and patch distribution software.


	Configuring Hyper-V hosts with Microsoft's VMMCA 30 Jun 2009 TIP - Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer can verify that a host server is ready for Hyper-V R2 and, after installation, validate the configuration.


	How to use PowerShell or VBScript scripting with Hyper-V Submitted By: SearchServerVirtualization.com \| 25 Jun 2009 TIP - Microsoft's Hyper-V includes scripting options to manage virtualization environments. See examples of how to automate and configure in PowerShell or VBScript.


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	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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	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 monitoring, troubleshooting and alerting, Virtual machine performance management

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