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The virtual enterprise

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I think that virtual machines are one of the coolest products from the last decade. And what I like about them is the ease of which you can do purely hardware-related management using plain scripts. No need to go three floors down into the datacenter to manually wire up a new cluster. All you need to do is to use a script that will create the entire cluster from scratch!

In five years probably, virtual machines will be a must-have tool for the regular IT administrator. Not only for ease of management, but only to consolidate all your servers in a few very fast machines. I am not sure what would be the CPU speeds the bus speed and the memory by then, but it would be certainly affordable to run a few virtual machines - one with your Exchange box, another one with the payroll database, and so on.

And, from a management perspective, Virtual Server really shines. There is a nice web page right here with all sorts of nifty scripts to manage your servers: add disks, add controllers, etc.

Here is a really simple script to add a new harddrive:

Set objVS = CreateObject("VirtualServer.Application")
errReturn = objVS.CreateFixedVirtualHardDisk _
("C:\Virtual Machines\Disks\Fixed_HardDisk.vhd", 20)

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  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2004
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