These are the articles and links for the last week:

1.VMware Certified Professionals command higher salaries, report shows via Server Virtualization Blog
2.Free Virtualization Capacity Planning, Courtesy of Microsoft MAP via Virtualization.com
3.Cool Technology of the Week via Life as a Healthcare CIO
4.My Thoughts on the Live Migration-Quick Migration Discussion via Scottlowe.org
5.Microsoft Blogs Part II via Yellow Bricks

Enjoy!

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

Besides knowing how to manage the Hypervisor, administrators are expected to interact with at least the storage, backup and networking teams in order to provide a complete virtualization solution. Because of that, I would like to recommend you the following links since they talk about the interaction between the different players in a virtualization project, network design with Cisco devices and best practices:

1. Server Virtualization: Network Implications and Best Practices by Maurizio Portolani

2. Challenges integrating VMware into Cisco networks by Colin McNamara

Enjoy!

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

These are the new features of the Beta 2:

Change history View an annotated history of actions on a configuration.
Guest customization This feature replaces the VM Personalizer utility.
Service template Stage Manager administrators can set up and change a default service template, used for creation of new services
Partial deployment of configurations Deploy portions of a configuration rather than the whole configuration.
Demote configuration Demote a configuration to any prior stage.

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Download the Program here

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

Implement a consistent, automated process for managing the lifecycle of virtual machines in the data center, from provisioning to operation to retirement. With VMware Lifecycle Manager, automate the virtualization workflow to improve efficiency and productivity, and ensure strict corporate compliance with company policies.

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Download Lifecycle Manager

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

Here is the list of links and articles for this week:

1. Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator via Microsoft Technet
2. A Really Useful List of Rundll32 commands for Windows via Gus Pinto MVP Blog
3. Windows Server 2008 Israeli Launch Event & Presentations by Daniel Petri via Petri IT Knowledgebase
4. Remaindered links for March21, 2008 via VMTN Blog
5. The CareGroup Network Outage via Life as a Healthcare CIO

This is a blog focused on IT Infrastructure Management, so you can expect to find here articles about Virtualization, Microsoft & Open Source Technologies, IT Management and Security.

The main objective is to share ideas and experiences through simple posts that can serve as on-line reference and hopefully provoke some thoughts.

Also, feel free to visit http://it-infrastructure-management.blogspot.com/ for more weekly updates!

Posted By Gabriel Maciel