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"Even without a virtualization management package, vSphere administrators have long zeroed in on the attribute and annotation fields to organize virtual environments. Individual virtual machines have virtual machine (VM) notes to describe an individual virtual machine. Notes can be as simple as when the system was built, denoting if the server went through a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion, or it can be something where you add more descriptive notes fields for virtual appliances."

Describes a convenient location to track attributes of VM's and VM hosts -- in vCenter.

"When provisioning virtual machines, either from a new build or during a physical-to-virtual conversion, questions will always come up on how many virtual processors to assign to the host. "

"a running configuration of things I have learned over the years in performing physical-to-virtual (P2V) as well as virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversions. The Visio diagram in Fig. 1 shows what can be a wonderful springboard for you to customize in your organization to collect lessons learned, avoid pitfalls with conversions and implement your own procedures, such as change controls and support contacts. "

"have mentioned in a number of posts on the "Everyday Virtualization" blog how I favor ESXi over ESX for hypervisor selection. This is due to VMware's clear strategy that ESXi is the preferred platform going forward. Within the vSphere Client, the experience is virtually indistinguishable from ESX."

Virtualized OS-plus-app packages ready to install on Amazon EC2 Cloud.

V-locity monitors the hypervisor to make sure that defrag does not compete with real work. However, at a list price of $199.95 per core (not CPU), we're looking at about $5K ouch!

"Environments that don't have or don't want SA will be required to purchase a separate Windows VDA license for every VDI-hosted desktop." But it's even worse than that, because the number of devices from which each VDI desktop is accessed, and the ownership of those devices, may confuse the licensing issue.