Resources for starting your Dynamic Data Center solution deployment

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Hello all, our good friends at Microsoft Consulting who have created the DDC Toolkit have provided us some resources that will help prepare you for building your own cloud solution based on Hyper-V and System Center.

Begin your DDC education by going through the assessment planning toolkit.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977556.aspx

Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track Architecture Brief
https://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2011/02/10/hyper-v-cloud-fast-track-architecture-brief.aspx

 

Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track Program

Reference Architecture Technical White Paper

https://download.microsoft.com/download/B/7/9/B7931A5A-18F6-41EA-B603-975EF281587F/Hyper-V_Cloud_Fast_Track_White_Paper.pdf

Part 1: Dynamic Memory announcement. This blog announces the new Hyper-V Dynamic Memory in Hyper-V R2 SP1. It also discusses the explicit requirements that we received from our customers. https://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2010/03/18/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v.aspx

Part 2: Capacity Planning from a Memory Standpoint. This blog discusses the difficulties behind the deceptively simple question, “how much memory does this workload require?” Examines what issues our customers face with regard to memory capacity planning and why. https://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2010/03/25/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-2.aspx

 

Part 3: Page Sharing. A deep dive into the importance of the TLB, large memory pages, how page sharing works, SuperFetch and more. If you’re looking for the reasons why we haven’t invested in Page Sharing, this is the blog. https://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2010/04/07/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-3.aspx

Part 4: Page Sharing Follow-Up. Questions answered about Page Sharing and ASLR and other factors to its efficacy. https://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/04/21/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-4.aspx

Part 5: Second Level Paging. What it is, why you really want to avoid this in a virtualized environment and the performance impact it can have. https://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/05/20/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-5.aspx

 

Part 6: Hyper-V Dynamic Memory. What it is, what each of the per virtual machine settings do in depth and how this all ties together with our customer requirements. https://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/07/12/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-6.aspx

 

Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Density. An in depth test of Hyper-V Dynamic Memory easily achieving 40% greater density. https://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/11/08/hyper-v-dynamic-memory-test-for-vdi-density.aspx