There’s no better way to spread some holiday cheer than sharing some custom virtualization management scripts. Just in time for the holiday’s, William Lam and Tuan Duong have shared a number of treasures (each makes a perfect gift). In fact, I think I’ll print some of their latest scripts and put them in the Christmas cards I’ll be handing out to family members. I can just picture the look of disbelief on my Uncle Jimmy’s face as he looks at a linked clone creation script on Christmas morning.

All kidding aside, I recommend that you set aside some time during the last minute holiday rush and check out the script treasure trove that William and Tuan are putting together.  I’ve found their linked cloning scripts to be very helpful to some of my current work, and their growing list of undocumented ESX and ESXi commands is useful too. You’ll also want to check out their linked clone implementation details on the VMware communities site.

Also, if any of you are seeing some really good results with scaling linked clones, please let me know. I’m very interested in how far we can push the scalability envelope.