http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel VMware and Microsoft Virtualization - Open Source Technologies - IT Management and Security Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:07:52 GMT Clearspace 1.10.12 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2008-12-01T01:07:52Z http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/12/08/free-vm-backup-alternative-for-esx-35-and-esxi "This script performs backups of virtual machines residing on ESX 3.5+ and ESXi servers using methodology similar to VMware's VCB tool. The script takes snapshots of live virtual machines, backs up the master VMDKs and then upon completion, deletes 3i esxi esx server tools vi vi3 vi4 virtual virtualization storage vmware Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:07:38 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/12/08/free-vm-backup-alternative-for-esx-35-and-esxi 2008-12-08T13:07:38Z 12 months, 11 hours ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/free-vm-backup-alternative-for-esx-35-and-esxi http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=2326 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/12/08/free-tool-for-managing-vmware-esx-esxi-servers-trilead-vm-explorer Trilead VM Explorer is a management tool that eases management, backup and disaster recovery tasks in your VMware ESX Server environment. You get maximum flexibility: backups can be stored to ESX, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD based storage platforms or 3i esx esxi it san storage virtual virtualization Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:29:10 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/12/08/free-tool-for-managing-vmware-esx-esxi-servers-trilead-vm-explorer 2008-12-08T12:29:10Z 11 months, 3 weeks ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/free-tool-for-managing-vmware-esx-esxi-servers-trilead-vm-explorer http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=2335 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 12 months, 11 hours 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/2008/11/02/fiber-channel-zoning-and-esx From Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping): 3i esx esxi infrastructure san server storage vi vi3 virtual virtualization vmware Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:10:30 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/11/02/fiber-channel-zoning-and-esx 2008-11-02T21:10:30Z 1 year, 3 weeks ago 2 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/fiber-channel-zoning-and-esx http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=2258 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/07/17/esx-installation-best-practices This is an interesting post Leo Raikhman wrote about the ESX / VC installation best practices: I get asked this all the time: what is best practice installation procedure? I don’t know that there is such a thing - every environment is 3i infrastructure it security reference server storage technologies vi vi3 virtual virtualization vmware Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/07/17/esx-installation-best-practices 2008-07-17T10:00:00Z 1 year, 4 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/esx-installation-best-practices http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1939 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/2008/06/15/the-best-of-the-week-13 And here you have the the best articles for the past week: best_of_the_week esx infrastructure it management microsoft san server storage technologies vi3 virtual vi virtualization vmware Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:41:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/15/the-best-of-the-week-13 2008-06-16T05:41:00Z 1 year, 5 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/the-best-of-the-week-13 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1859 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/08/the-best-of-the-week-12 This is the list of the links for this week: best_of_the_week esx infrastructure it management microsoft san storage virtual virtualization vmware Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:19:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/08/the-best-of-the-week-12 2008-06-09T02:19:00Z 1 year, 5 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/the-best-of-the-week-12 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1831 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/01/the-best-of-the-week-11 These are the articles I enjoyed the most in the past week: best_of_the_week infrastructure it management storage virtual vi vmware virtualization Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:41:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/06/01/the-best-of-the-week-11 2008-06-01T11:41:00Z 1 year, 5 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/the-best-of-the-week-11 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1804 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/05/25/the-best-of-the-week-10 And the winners for this week are: best_of_the_week infrastructure it management microsoft storage virtualization virtual Sun, 25 May 2008 13:42:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/05/25/the-best-of-the-week-10 2008-05-25T13:42:00Z 1 year, 6 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/the-best-of-the-week-10 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1781 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/05/23/xtravirt-virtual-san-released "The Xtravirt Virtual SAN (XVS) appliance for VMware ESX3 Server, is a free solution to provide the benefits of shared VMFS storage without the cost of a SAN – this allows the utilization of otherwise unused local storage in the ESX server to storage virtualization Fri, 23 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/05/23/xtravirt-virtual-san-released 2008-05-23T12:00:00Z 1 year, 6 months ago 2 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/xtravirt-virtual-san-released http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1775 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/05/22/100000-io-operations-per-second-1-esx-host "We know that ESX can handle a large number of IOPS, but we set out to see just how far we could push it. We went to EMC and got as many storage arrays as we could lay our hands on. We picked a realistic workload of 100% random with a 50/50 read/write esx infrastructure it storage virtual virtualization vmware vi3 Thu, 22 May 2008 20:41:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/05/22/100000-io-operations-per-second-1-esx-host 2008-05-22T20:41:00Z 1 year, 6 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/100000-io-operations-per-second-1-esx-host http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1774 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/04/12/file-management-veeam-fastscp-for-vmware-infrastructure A while ago I wrote a post about the tools I use everyday to manage our VMware environment and about Veeam Backup . FastSCP was updated this week and now it includes the following new features: esx vmware virtualization storage Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:14:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/04/12/file-management-veeam-fastscp-for-vmware-infrastructure 2008-04-12T07:14:00Z 1 year, 7 months ago 1 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/file-management-veeam-fastscp-for-vmware-infrastructure http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1660 http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/02/29/top-storage-questions-on-vmware-esx-server Mike Laverick recently gave a really interesting 42 minutes Webcast covering the following topics: virtualization vmware esx server storage virtual center Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:00:00 GMT Gabriel Maciel Ottawa http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/2008/02/29/top-storage-questions-on-vmware-esx-server 2008-02-29T15:00:00Z 1 year, 8 months ago http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/comment/top-storage-questions-on-vmware-esx-server http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/gabrielmaciel/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1561