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Bookmarks for December 3, 2009

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:59:50 +0000

Links for December 3, 2009:

Creating a new EC2 AMI from within VMware or from VMDK files – TheWebFellas – Ruby on Rails Development Specialists UK – "Creating the AMI from VMware was easier than I thought – but just in case anyone else is looking to do it then I thought it worthy of a blog post. There are two options for migration – one is to create the image from within the running VMware machine, the other is to convert the VMDK file into a RAW image."

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:10:17 +0000

Links for November 16, 2009:

Performance Study of VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning – VMware whtepaper on the effects of Thin, Thick and Eager-Zeroed Thick VMDKs on performance.
NetApp Technology Network: Verifications are maxing out my… – Discussion of doing off-production Exchange server backup verifications using SnapManager for Exchange.

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:07:55 +0000

Links for November 5, 2009 through November 6, 2009:

RTFM Education » Blog Archive » Scripted ESX4 Installations & Partitioning – Reader Email – Blog post on scripting vSphere 4 installs with kickstart, noting that the COS resides on a VMDK in vSphere.
NetApp – The Virtual Storage Guy: VCE-101 Thin Provisioning Part 1 – The Basics – Post "reviewing the three types of virtual disks available in vSphere including their similarities, differences, weaknesses, and strengths" – thick, thin and eager zeroed thick.
Mark's Blog : The Machine SID Duplication Myth – "It’s a little surprising that the SID duplication issue has gone unquestioned for so long, but everyone has assumed that someone else knew exactly why it was a problem. To my chagrin, NewSID has never really done anything useful and there’s no reason to miss it now that it’s retired. Microsoft’s official policy on SID duplication will also now change and look for Sysprep to be updated in the future to skip SID generation as an option."