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I found a fantastic reference card/cheat sheet relating to Powershell over at DZone.com.

I found a fantastic document over at SQLCAT that outlines how to troubleshoot and diagnose performance issues in SQL Server 2005/2008.
I’ve blogged about it here as the principles are just as applicable to SQL Server in a physical or virtual environment.
Enjoy reading this small, but very succinct document here.
This website is awash with great articles, [...]

I found a useful page on the VMware website that outlines hardware vendors support paths for Microsoft products running in VMware.
Check it out here.

A colleague and I have been pondering on Microsoft’s Quick Migration technology and wondered when we might find the time to compare it to VMotion.
Well, now we don’t need to wonder because Mike D has written an excellent article outlining real use cases and points out why Quick Migration simply isn’t a viable option.
The article [...]

VMware have recently announced the beta of a Powershell related toolkit that contains a library of commonly used administration functions in cmdlets.
These cmdlets are executed through the best thing that Microsoft have done in a very long time – Powershell.
You can read all about it here and download the toolkit here.

For all those of you that run Windows 2003 Standard Edition you will be pleased to know that you can run a instance as a Virtual Machine without paying any extra.
Check out the full eligibility here.