I love this piece. Tons of fun, and some really great concepts for really explaining Virtualization.

How to Explain Virtualization to Your Friends - ReadWriteCloud: ""

Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Performance Paper

If you have been looking for VHD performance data the paper below should
give you a lot of what you have been looking to find. The paper
compares VHD performance on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008
R2. It uses the new Native VHD implementation for R2 and loopback VHD
2008.

Microsoft has launched a great virtualization community. Twitter feeds, blog feeds, and links to lots of great resources. Something to be checking out!

http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/community.aspx

Enjoy!

A new video podcast from the folks at TechTarget: ""

Spotted on one of my email lists:

As organizations seek a more dynamic infrastructure, they are increasingly moving to deploy virtualization in their environments. The benefits are considerable - increased efficiency and performance as well as cost savings. However, the deployment of virtualization can also lead to a more complex and risky security environment. In a virtual environment, all exploitation risks are now consolidated into one physical target where exploiting one system could potentially allow access and control of multiple systems on that server (or the server itself).

Download details: Getting to Know Hyper-V: A Walkthrough from Initial Setup to Common Scenarios: "This guide provides detailed step-by-step walkthroughs for testing Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008 R2 in a preproduction environment. You can use this guide to become familiar with Hyper-V and the process of creating and managing virtual machines.

Hilton Travis in the land down under did a blog post on getting started with Hyper-V. I think it's great. Read on!

http://hiltont.blogspot.com/2010/01/hyper-v-in-smb.html

What can I say? There's a bunch of great material (including two pieces from me) on Karl's fantastic Sampler CD:

http://blog.smallbizthoughts.com/2009/12/smb-books-free-sampler-cd.html

Check it out.

Dave

Fairfax, Va. -- December 9, 2009 -- SMB Virtualization, a firm providing virtualization information and training for small and medium sized information technology (IT) businesses, has partnered with Third Tier, a leading provider of remote support services for IT professionals, to offer advanced incident and project support services for virtualized networks.
SMB Virtualization supplies IT firms with the knowledge to sell and implement virtualization projects for their clients through training via whitepapers, books, videos and DVD sets.

A great interview I did with Aaron Booker of VarVid.