This week’s VMware Community Roundtable covered lots of ground. No guests, just our panel talking about various topics in virtualization. As always, listen by clicking on the gadget to the right or download the mp3 directly. (1:06 duration)
- Eric Siebert
- Top 10 free tools that should be in every VMware administrator’s toolkit at vmware-land.com
- Top 10 free tools that should be in every VMware administrator’s toolkit at Virtual Strategy Magazine
- Mike Laverick
- More PowerShell
- if you’d like more, check out this new podcast with product manager Carter Shanklin and power user Hal Rottenberg at RunAs Radio: Using PowerShell with VMware podcast. They have some good stories. (They bring up an interesting future: imagine wiring the PowerShell toolkit with in-guest technologies like Record/Replay and VProbes…)
- Carter also suggested these books:
- Good intro book: free Windows PowerShell workshop book
- More advanced stuff: Windows PowerShell v1.0: TFM, 2nd Edition
- Very advanced: Windows PowerShell in Action
- Hey, did you hear Hyper-V was finally released?
- Eric Siebert: Why (or why not) switch from VMware to Hyper-V?
- David Davis: How VMware ESX performance trumps Hyper-V’s price
- Chris Wolf: Hyper-V goes RTM – Deep Impact
- Randall C. Kennedy: Hyper-V’s Achilles’ Heel
- Microsoft Action Pack
- Record/replay in VMware Workstation 6.5 beta
- ntpro.nl: VMware Marriage Ritual – Zach’s dunk
- Kevin Fogarty @ CIO: Budget Blowback: Virtualization Isn’t as Easy as it Seems
- VMware Virtualization Forum 2008
