http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel VMware and Microsoft Virtualization - Open Source Technologies - IT Management and Security Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:25:00 GMT Clearspace 1.10.12 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2008-12-24T01:25:00Z http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/12/23/vmware-site-recovery-manager-srm-demo-video This is a new introductory video to VMware Site Recovery Manager that explains what SRM can do and provides a demo of the product. You can watch the video here . Posted by Gabriel Maciel infrastructure center server technologies vi vi3 virtual virtualization vmware vi4 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:28:03 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/12/23/vmware-site-recovery-manager-srm-demo-video 2008-12-24T01:28:03Z 11 months, 4 days ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/vmware-site-recovery-manager-srm-demo-video http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=2381 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/12/17/5-free-tools-from-solarwinds VM Monitor center esx esxi infrastructure it microsoft security server technologies tools vi vi3 vi4 virtual virtualization vmware Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:49:53 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/12/17/5-free-tools-from-solarwinds 2008-12-17T18:49:53Z 11 months, 1 week ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/5-free-tools-from-solarwinds http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=2365 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/12/03/ad-domain-login-fails-when-the-computers-snapshot-is-reverted-to-a-point-in-the-past This issue occurs because the machine account password changes automatically every 30 days when a computer is joined to a Windows domain. When the computer's snapshot is reverted to a point in the past, the password in the virtual machine does not match microsoft vi vi3 vi4 virtual virtualization vmware center Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:04:27 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/12/03/ad-domain-login-fails-when-the-computers-snapshot-is-reverted-to-a-point-in-the-past 2008-12-03T11:04:27Z 11 months, 3 weeks ago 2 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/ad-domain-login-fails-when-the-computers-snapshot-is-reverted-to-a-point-in-the-past http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=2325 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/12/01/celerra-virtual-appliance-howto-301-from-virtual-geek Great post from Chad at Virtual Geek: san storage technologies vi vi3 vi4 virtual virtualization vmware center esx esxi 3i Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:58:23 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/12/01/celerra-virtual-appliance-howto-301-from-virtual-geek 2008-12-01T12:58:23Z 11 months, 3 weeks ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/celerra-virtual-appliance-howto-301-from-virtual-geek http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=2324 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/11/19/3-must-read-articles-for-troubleshooting-vmware-infrastructure-common-issues Here you have the 3 must read articles from VMwarewolf about VMware Infrastructure troubleshooting: 3i center esx esxi it reference tools vi vi3 virtual virtualization Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:52:25 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/11/19/3-must-read-articles-for-troubleshooting-vmware-infrastructure-common-issues 2008-11-19T10:52:25Z 1 year, 1 week ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/3-must-read-articles-for-troubleshooting-vmware-infrastructure-common-issues http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=2293 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/11/05/vmware-update-manager-vum-performance-and-best-practices "VMware Update Manager (VUM) is a component of VMware Infrastructure that automates patches and upgrades of ESX hosts as well as Windows and Linux virtual machines. A new white paper, VMware Update Manager Performance and Best Practices , is now virtual virtualization vmware tools vi vi3 management infrastructure it center Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:50:03 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/11/05/vmware-update-manager-vum-performance-and-best-practices 2008-11-05T10:50:03Z 1 year, 2 weeks ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/vmware-update-manager-vum-performance-and-best-practices http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=2260 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/09/18/3-vmworld-2008-must-read-articles From Scott Lowe: center esx esxi infrastructure technologies vi vi4 virtual virtualization vmware Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:08:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/09/18/3-vmworld-2008-must-read-articles 2008-09-18T12:08:00Z 1 year, 2 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/3-vmworld-2008-must-read-articles http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=2181 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/08/12/esx-3-i-u2-product-license-issue This problem applies to all ESX 3.5 U2 hosts but should not affect you running VMs . Suggested Workarounds: 3i center esx esxi infrastructure it security server vmware virtualization Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:20:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/08/12/esx-3-i-u2-product-license-issue 2008-08-12T15:20:00Z 1 year, 3 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/esx-3-i-u2-product-license-issue http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=2041 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/07/26/update-2-for-vmware-esx-35-esxi-35-and-virtual-center-25 It seems that VMware is getting ready for next Monday when they are going to officially announce that ESXi will be free! 3i center esx esxi vi vi3 virtual virtualization vmware Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:41:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/07/26/update-2-for-vmware-esx-35-esxi-35-and-virtual-center-25 2008-07-26T18:41:00Z 1 year, 4 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/update-2-for-vmware-esx-35-esxi-35-and-virtual-center-25 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1971 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/07/02/clustering-virtual-center-25-using-microsoft-cluster-services Via NTPRO.NL: Chris Skinner, a Technical Trainer over at VMware created a document for clustering VirtualCenter 2.5 with MSCS . Feel free to distribute to clients and colleagues. A special thanks to Seva and Charu for challenging Chris to do clustering center infrastructure server virtual vmware virtualization Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:32:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/07/02/clustering-virtual-center-25-using-microsoft-cluster-services 2008-07-02T12:32:00Z 1 year, 4 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/clustering-virtual-center-25-using-microsoft-cluster-services http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1897 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/25/top-10-things-you-must-read-about-vmware-performance Another nice article from Eric Siebert : 1-Understanding Performance in a Virtualized Environment: A VMworld 2007 presentation (you will need to sign-in) on understanding virtualization performance and overhead as well as dispelling common esx center infrastructure it technologies vi vi3 virtual virtualization vmware Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:14:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/25/top-10-things-you-must-read-about-vmware-performance 2008-06-25T11:14:00Z 1 year, 5 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/top-10-things-you-must-read-about-vmware-performance http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1880 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/23/vmware-site-recovery-manager-videos Mike Laverick has posted two VMware Site Recovery videos that you may want to check: virtualization vmware virtual center Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:36:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/23/vmware-site-recovery-manager-videos 2008-06-23T11:36:00Z 1 year, 5 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/vmware-site-recovery-manager-videos http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1878 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/18/more-vmware-tools-and-utilities Back in February I wrote a post about the VMware Tools and Utilities I use to administer our VMware environment. Now, via vmware-land.com we get the following list: center esx infrastructure security server storage technologies vi vi3 virtual virtualization vmware Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:15:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/18/more-vmware-tools-and-utilities 2008-06-18T11:15:00Z 1 year, 5 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/more-vmware-tools-and-utilities http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1869 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/16/virtual-center-202-upgrade-take-2 A while ago I posted an article about an unresolved issue that happened to me when upgrading from Virtual Center 2.0.2 to Virtual Center 2.0.2 Update3 (the problem was that the installer did not copy all the files required for the Welcome page to be center virtualization virtual vmware Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:44:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/16/virtual-center-202-upgrade-take-2 2008-06-16T09:44:00Z 1 year, 5 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/virtual-center-202-upgrade-take-2 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1860 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/02/vmware-virtualcenter-202-update-4 "List of resolved issues: center virtual virtualization vmware Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:42:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/02/vmware-virtualcenter-202-update-4 2008-06-02T19:42:00Z 1 year, 5 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/vmware-virtualcenter-202-update-4 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1809