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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 directly to a SAN.

Features:

• Multi-Server Management: The graphical user interface of VM Explorer allows to connect to multiple ESX, Linux and FreeBSD servers at the same time in the same interface.


• Server to Server fast copy: Allows you to copy files directly (drag&drop) between ESX, Linux and FreeBSD servers at full speed: throughput is only limited by the available network/storage system bandwidth.


• ESX to ESX/Windows/Linux/FreeBSD/SAN Backup & Restore: Our unique ESX to any backup feature allows to backup virtual machines to other ESX Servers, Linux or FreeBSD servers. Of course, virtual machines can also be stored to a SAN (ISCSI or NFS) directly attached to an ESX. Furthermore, backups can also be saved on the Windows machine where the VM Explorer is running.


• Support for ESX 3i: VMX version 1.5 includes beta support for the next generation of ESX servers.


• File Browser: Browse instantly your ESX/Linux/FreeBSD servers' file system and copy files from one to the other just by drag & drop. Supports also up- and download to the management station.


• Integrated SSH Client: The integrated SSH Terminal Client allows you to configure all your Unix/Linux based Servers trough SSH, all within one software.


• Job Scheduler: The integrated job scheduler allows you to perform unattended, periodic backups of your virtual infrastructure.


• Integrated ESX Snapshot Manager: Create and remove snapshots directly from within VMX.


• Dynamic Compression: To make use of slow network links (e.g., for wide-area replication) or to save space on the target system, backups can be dynamically compressed.

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From Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping):

I’ve been doing VMware Design Reviews lately and so are my colleagues of the PSO department. A Design Review is quick scan of your design documentation by a VMware consultant. The consultant will hold your docs against best practices and propose changes to the design.

One of the things we encounter on a regular base is that admins took the easy path for their Storage Design zoning. So what’s zoning? In short: a way to partition your fabric into smaller subsets. These small subsets provide you with a better security and less interference...

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

This is the list of the links for this week:

1. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Connection Broker Comparison via Quest
2. Microsoft Hyper-V to flaunt advanced virtualization features via Infoweek
3. Virtualization's Impact on IT Operations - Part 1 via Virtual Strategy Magazine
4. Deploying Virtual Servers in a SAN Environment via Virtual Strategy Magazine
5. Alternatives to VCB for VMware backup via SearchVMware