I’ll briefly mention some of the things I’m really liking that I was unaware of before putting VMM into action.<\/p>\n
One of the things I was dreading with a VHD library was disk wastage.\u00a0 PSS don’t like anything other than pass through disks and fixed size VHD’s in production.\u00a0 Without VMM I was building sysprepped dynamically expanding VHD’s.\u00a0 I’d store those in a shared folder.\u00a0 I’d copy the image VHD to a host and then "convert" (it actually creates a new file) the VHD into a fixed size VHD which my new VM would use.<\/p>\n
VMM is a little more clever.\u00a0 It allows you to convert a disk in place.\u00a0 I like<\/em> that.\u00a0 I’m storing my dynamic VHD’s in the library.\u00a0 To save more space I’ve compressed the library – hey, disk is money to us and disk IS NOT CHEAP!\u00a0 I can build a VM and convert the disks to fixed size before powering it up.\u00a0 This means I can conserve disk space in the VMM library and still build fixed size VHD’s from templates without incurring nasty amounts of work.<\/p>\n Without Hyper-V using ISO images for the CD\/DVD was a similar painful process -> copy the ISO to the Hyper-V box and load it up.\u00a0 With VMM I can load the ISO into the library and it can be loaded on the VM via the VMM console over the network.<\/p>\n The idea of a template is different in VMM than it is in ESX … or even any OS deployment solution … more MS renaming!\u00a0 It’ll take me a while to get used to but it mightn’t be a bad thing – I have to try it in anger first.\u00a0 A template is a machine configuration, e.g. 1 processor, 2GB RAM, etc.\u00a0 The VHD image is a totally different thing altogether.\u00a0 So that 1 CPU & 2GB RAM machine description can be paired up with different OS images by the looks of it.<\/p>\n I’m seeing more and more how VMM makes managing multiple Hyper-V boxes easier.\u00a0 It is different to ESX which I found quite natural (other than nested resource pools to be honest) but that difference isn’t naturally a bad thing.<\/p>\n BTW, after the early issues that I sorted out (and blogged about) it’s running very sweetly.\u00a0 The diagram view went down very nice with the boss.\u00a0 It’s nice to show the people in charge where all the money went \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ll briefly mention some of the things I’m really liking that I was unaware of before putting VMM into action. One of the things I was dreading with a VHD library was disk wastage.\u00a0 PSS don’t like anything other than pass through disks and fixed size VHD’s in production.\u00a0 Without VMM I was building sysprepped … Continue reading “Some Small VMM 2008 Features I’m Liking”<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}