Michael Nystrom is the speaker.<\/p>\n
I arrived in 5 minutes to late (work interfering!).\u00a0 This guy needs to realise he has an audience.\u00a0 He was muttering away to himself while using WSIM and MDT on a huge resolution screen.\u00a0 These tools have tiny writing to begin with and are already confusing even for someone familiar with them.\u00a0 I was half way down the room and couldn’t make out what he was doing.\u00a0 A smaller resolution, some step-by-step bullet points in a powerpoint and a zoom utility would help – and stop muttering to yourself.\u00a0 This is unfortunate because he appears to know this stuff inside\/out but he’s not good at getting it across to a large room.<\/p>\n
Hyper-V point: Make sure the time zone is set correctly on the VM.\u00a0 Even if you disable all integration services, the VM will synch the clock with the host when it boots up.<\/p>\n
It appears<\/em> the concept he’s trying to get across is that you can have many machine profiles that specify virtual machine specifications.\u00a0 You can use answer files created in WSIM to configure Vista or Windows Server 2008 installation and configuration.\u00a0 Deployment of the VM’s and configuration of the OS would be almost completely automated.\u00a0 These can be made available via the self-service portal in VMM 2008.\u00a0 Non-host administrators can select the "templates" to deploy new VM’s.\u00a0 The resources available to them are controlled by a quota.\u00a0 VMM 2008 Intelligent Placement will pick a VM to locate the VM on a host.\u00a0 <\/p>\n There’s no discussion here of the storage\u00a0 side of things – Windows 2008\/Hyper-V really relies on individual LUN’s per VM that must be sized appropriately for the individual VM.\u00a0 W2008\/VMM 2008 cannot deploy that storage for you.\u00a0 This is a nice idea but for me, it won’t be a viable solution until Windows Server 2008 R2.\u00a0 R2 will have a storage solution similar to VMware VMFS: a single LUN is accessible to multiple hosts and therefore can host many<\/em> virtual machines.\u00a0 LUN assignment is no longer an issue and doesn’t require SAN\/server admin for each VM to be deployed.<\/p>\n Also, this solution appears to be a fresh install every time.\u00a0 I think I’d prefer sysprepped VHD\/template deployment because it would be slightly quicker.\u00a0 This would be followed by "RunOnce" to run a script(s), e.g. unattended servermanagercmd.exe scripts.\u00a0 However, Core does not really work well with RunOnce.<\/p>\n I think I’ll be waiting until the video is available to download and try this out myself\u00a0 before I even attempt to discuss it further.\u00a0 This guy’s presentation skills are pretty poor and he needs to get some training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael Nystrom is the speaker. I arrived in 5 minutes to late (work interfering!).\u00a0 This guy needs to realise he has an audience.\u00a0 He was muttering away to himself while using WSIM and MDT on a huge resolution screen.\u00a0 These tools have tiny writing to begin with and are already confusing even for someone familiar … Continue reading “Day 4: Deploying VM’s Using VMM 2008”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teched-emea-it-pro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t