Virtual Computing Resources - update

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  1. Kitkatninja
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    Hi All,

    In regards to Leehaa's thread regarding updates to Phoenix's thread on Virtual Computing Resources, thought that I'd make a start with the following:

    Software:

    VMware Workstation (latest trial)
    VMWare Server
    Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, SP1 version here.
    Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 (IIS based)
    Microsoft Hyper-V for 2008 (MMC based, update)
    System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (eval)
    Virtual PC for Mac (discontinued, download from 3rd party site)
    Various Linux Distro's and VirtualBox
    Citirx Xen Server Express

    Resources:

    Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
    Technet, White Papers, Virtual Server CBT, Resource Kit (book)

    Microsoft Hyper-V
    Technet, White papers (bottom left of page), Free E-learning from MS, Resource Kit (Book), Free E-Book from MS, Understanding Microsoft Virtualization - Free eBook

    Microsoft Virtual PC
    MS release notes, Technical overview (XPS)

    System Centre Virtual Machine Manager
    Data Sheet, Technet, Free E-learning from MS

    Xen Server
    Documentation Index, Citrix CBT, Book, Xen Virtualization Essentials (online reference/"book")

    VMWare
    White Papers (General), White Paper (Server), Technical Papers, VMWare CBT, VMbook - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

    VirtualBox
    Documentation (Technical & User), Wiki, How to install (link to another forum :( )

    General
    Compare VMWare to MS Hyper-V (from VMWare)
    Hyper-V Side by Side Comparison (from VMWare)
    General overview of Hyper-V, VMWare & Xen
    Free E-books about Virtualisation
    Free Virtualization for Dummies eBook

    not finished/more to follow :)

    -Ken
     
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  2. craigie

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    Ken,

    For the Virtual PC 2007, you might want to link to this as it contains MS VP 2002 SP1 as well.

    It includes support for:

     
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    Also cbtnuggets they have various material including Citrix & VMware videos.
     
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    I'll add to this - if you;re looking for 'real' virtualisation from VMWare (i.e. bare-metal hypervisor) they have a 60 day free trial of VI (which includes ESX Server and Virtual Center) here

    If you want to run this properly and play with all the big benefits of ESX (Vmotion, DRS, HA etc) then you'll need shared storage. There are various solutions available to you - including running something like the Virtual SAN appliance from Xtravirt or, if you can find it, EMC's Celerra simulator - which installs as an ovf and is available from a few places on the net (although nowhere 'officially' from EMC). However, my personal favourite is to use an old box and run OpenFiler 2.3 on it

    Finally, for anyone looking seriously at building an ESX test lab at home, this blog post from KiwiSi (techhead.co.uk) is the Rosetta Stone to use as a reference.
     
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    Great stuff. Thanks Ken. :thumbleft
     
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  8. Obinna Osobalu

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    Quite a handful of resources.

    -Obie
     
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  9. Dell mountainman

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    Great information Thanks for sharing. The host operating system and physical hardware should be considered as important as the most important virtual machine/guest operating system on it.
     

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