Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager

It have taken some time, but it now looks like the IPD guide for System Center will start to arrive (in beta versions first). First one out are Scvmm (Well the System Center Service Manager have been there for a while)

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guides are documents writen by Microsoft to help, like the name says, plan and design implementation of technologies and solutions.

You will fing IPD on the following technologies:

Virtualization Windows Server 2008 System Center Microsoft SQL Server

Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios Communication & Collaboration Security

The IPD site are located here

Everything you wanted to know about System Center 2012, but didn't dear to ask

You can find a real nice survival guide for the entire System Center 2012 package here

For sure this will be the greates every release of System Center products, and most of the product comes with the greates upgrade ever.

So as an Microsoft infrastructur guy there will be lots of excitement ahead.

Linux running on Hyper-V

A great news for people wanting to run Hyper-V but have problems setting up the Linux integration components on there linux VM's. Micosoft have been working hard after the code intended to ble implimentet into the kernel back in 2009 was rejected and have now been accepted into the next kernel version.

The changes will be availabe in Linux kernel 3.0.0 and will be a major step in making Hyper-V the best choice for virtualization undependent on what you want to virtualize.

More details can be found on David A. Wheeler's Blog here