Sunday, September 27, 2009

Energy efficient data center

"We all need fatter pipes, but there are other ways of moving forward if the speeds come at the cost of too much power consumption, physical complexity and cost of ownership," said Bikash Koley of Google in a talk to a group of more than 100 developers hosted by the Ethernet Alliance. See here for the news report. Very interesting to hear.

Another report from Donn Lee says he needs 64 terabits switch.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

System Center for Virtual Machine Management

Quick Start from Nothing to SCVMM  contains quick guide video to get started with SCVMM 2008 R2.

MDSN guide for SCVMM scripting

sample script for configure vm network adapter. This script connects the virtual network adapter to a virtual network, changes the MAC address from static to dynamic, and enables virtual LAN (VLAN) identification for the network adapter.