Internet links of interest

Hi Folks,

Sharing with you some of the "internet links of interest".

1)VCAP-DCD - 8 weeks series
After Mwpreston.com's 8-weeks VCAP-DCA, now is a time to follow tomverhaeg.nl's 8 weeks VCAP-DCD series.
http://tomverhaeg.nl/8-weeks-of-vcap-dcd/

2)Do you like vCheck reports from vSphere infra? and Hyper-V admins are also looking for some such goodness from their Hyper-V infra? then checkout this entire Ben Armstrong's Series and  powershell script
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2014/03/17/my-daily-hyper-v-status-email-part-1-of-5.aspx

3)Another Hyper-V and Storage series of Articles to follow is
http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/storage-and-hyper-v-part-7-actual-performance/

4)If you're also planning to upgrade from Thick vCenter to VCSA and ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 and looking for some steps and procedures to stay away from upgrade troubles then look out below link
http://lonesysadmin.net/2014/03/17/upgrading-vmware-vcenter-server-appliance-5-5-windows-vcenter-5-1/

5)Really great comparison sheet from Gartner about object storage
http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1R78PJ9&ct=140226&st=sb

6)Want to Virtualize Active Directory, then your wait is over, follow this series for in-depth knowledge on Virtualizing AD.
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sanderberkouwer/archive/2014/03/17/virtualization-safe-r-active-directory-in-vmware-environments-part-1.aspx

7)Freeware--yes, newest freeware on the block is OneNote 2013 from M$..
http://www.howtogeek.com/185075/microsoft-onenote-is-now-available-for-free-on-all-systems/

8)Free Visio Stencils from Veeam for VMWARE and HYPER-V
http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-stencils.html

9)Cool MS VDI starter kit released for everyone..
http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/03/19/introducing-virtual-desktop-infrastructure-starter-kit-vdi-sk-preview-part-1.aspx


See..ya