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Location:
Board room FC-30 in the food courtPlace De ville Tower C330 Sparks St.Ottawa Ont.K1A 0N5

Presentations:
1- Stephane Robinson (Health Canada) – The Evolution of virtualization at Health Canada

2- Teradici – Desktop virtualization with PC-over-IP - PC-over-IP
technology allows enterprise PCs and workstations to be centrally
managed in a data center while providing high resolution, full frame
rate 3D graphics and HD media, with full USB peripheral
interoperability, locally over a LAN or remotely over a high-latency
WAN. PC-over-IP is an innovative display protocol technology that
enables the practical consolidation of all IT resources into a data
center, eliminates the need for desktop workstations, PCs and thin
clients, and delivers an uncompromised user experience to each desk,
anywhere, without incurring the security risks associated with
transmitting data across a network or having data reside in remote PCs.

3- Cisco – Networking Best Practices in a virtual environment (3.5 and vSphere 4)

Registration: http://campaign.vmware.com/usergroup/ug-signup.php?session=Ottawa

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What's New

The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone release adds several new features including:

  • Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux (RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu) as source
  • Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Windows Server 2008 as source
  • Hot cloning improvements to clone any incremental changes to physical machine during the P2V conversion process
  • Support for converting new third-party image formats including Parallels Desktop virtual machines, newer versions of Symantec, Acronis, and StorageCraft
  • Workflow automation enhancements to include automatic source shutdown, automatic start-up of the destination virtual machine as well as shutting down one or more services at the source and starting up selected services at the destination
  • Target disk selection and the ability to specify how the volumes are laid out in the new destination virtual machine
  • Destination virtual machine configuration, including CPU, memory, and disk controller type
The following features are no longer supported:

  • NT4 hot cloning
  • ESX 2.5 destination
You can download  VMware vCenter Converter Standalone here.

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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.

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"The Veeam Monitor Free Edition is an easy-to-use VMware monitoring solution designed to meet the day-to-day needs of VMware administrators who need real-time performance monitoring and alerting. Built from the ground up specifically for the virtual world, Veeam Monitor provides a bird’s-eye view of key performance metrics across your virtual ESXi infrastructure.

With Veeam Monitor, you can view real-time resource usage data for any virtual infrastructure object or collection of objects, as well as known infrastructure events, all on a single screen. This allows you to finally see your virtual infrastructure as a unified entity, not just a collection of isolated hosts and guests."

You can download your free copy here.

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VM Monitor

Get X-Ray Insight into Your ESX Servers:

• Quickly check the health of your VMware ESX Server

• View detailed virtual machine health statistics

• Get visual alerts when performance degradation occurs

FREE Real-time NetFlow Analyzer

This free desktop tool captures and analyzes NetFlow data so that you can:

• Quickly answer "why's the network so slow?"

• Identify network top talkers

• Analyze traffic spikes and bandwidth consumption

Exchange Monitor

Continuously monitor Microsoft® Exchange health, including:

• Exchange services

• Mail queues

• Host server health

Award Winning TFTP Server

The most robust, widely trusted and easy-to-use TFTP server which enables you to:

• Concurrently upload and download images from multiple devices

• Upload and download configurations to devices

• Transfer files larger than 32MB

Advanced Subnet Calculator

Compute addresses for IP subnets with ease and perform other tasks with:

• Forward and reverse DNS resolution

• CIDR calculator

• Ability to geneate a list of addresses for any subnet

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Great post from Chad at Virtual Geek:

"Glad to see that people are having downloading and success with the Celerra VM on VMware Workstation based on this original post.  I wanted to provide a quick "HOWTO" to help customers Replicate between two VSAs, for many reasons - one of the most fun being VMware Site Recovery Manager.

Celerra Replicator (I hope the Celerra Product team doesn't read this) is a RIDICULOUSLY inexpensive (particularly when compared with the competition) but very sophisticated remote replication capability."

You can read the full article here.

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VMware Videos

Posted by Gabriel Macie… Nov 15, 2008

This search brings you all the video tagged VMware across MSN, AOL, MTV, Hulu, ESPN, YouTube, MySpace, Dailymotion, Metacafe.


To search other video use http://www.live.com/?scope=video.


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The VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant (VIMA) allows administrators and developers to run scripts and agents to manage ESX and ESXi systems. VIMA is a virtual machine that includes prepackaged software, a logging component, and an authentication component that supports non-interactive login. You can use VIMA to perform most of the tasks commonly performed in the ESX service console.


You can download the appliance here.


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Ok, here it is, the free Hypervisor from Microsoft that will try to compete with VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.


The download is almost 1 GB in size so if you feel like giving it a try this is the link:


A couple of things to take into account from the FAQ page:


Q: Is it possible to “upgrade” a Microsoft Hyper-V Server to Windows Server 2008?


A: No. Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Windows Server 2008 are different products. To migrate from a Microsoft Hyper-V Server environment to a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environment, export the virtual machines from Hyper-V Server, install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, enable the Hyper-V role and import the virtual machines.


Q: Does Microsoft Hyper-V Server include high availability (failover clustering) capabilities for unplanned downtime?


A: No. If high availability is a customer requirement, then we recommend using Windows Server 2008 Enterprise or Datacenter Editions which include integrated failover clustering support.


Q: Can you use PowerShell locally with Microsoft Hyper-V Server?


A: No. PowerShell is not included with Microsoft Hyper-V Server. However, if you use System Center Virtual Machine Manager you can use PowerShell remotely to manage a Microsoft Hyper-V Server.


Q: Does Microsoft Hyper-V Server use a parent partition like Windows Server 2008 with the Hyper-V role enabled?


A: Yes. Microsoft Hyper-V Server shares some things in common with Windows Server 2008 with the Hyper-V role enabled including a common kernel and drivers.


When to use Hyper-V Server 2008?


  • Test and Development

  • Basic Server Consolidation

  • Branch Office Consolidation

  • Hosted Desktop Virtualization (VDI)

Also, you can access the Technical Resources page here.

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Very nice work done by Mark Wilson on this Active Directory series!


Here are the links:



Sources:


Mark Wilson's Blog


The things that are better left unspoken


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From Scott Lowe:


From VM /ETC:


From Colin McNamara:


Enjoy!

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VMware VI4 Demo Videos

Posted by Gabriel Macie… Sep 16, 2008

Fresh new videos from VMware:


Enjoy!

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  1. Is built on a robust, proven foundation

  2. Delivers a platform for shared IT services

  3. Provides a complete solution for virtualization management

  4. Supports your entire IT infrastructure

  5. Is proven across tens of thousands of customer deployments.

  6. Low total-cost-of-ownership (TCO).

More information here.

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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 slightly different but here’s my general outline for ESX 3.5 + VirtualCenter 2.5 attached to Fibre SANs.

Installing VirtualCenter 2.5:

  • Install SQL 2005 + SQL Native Client
  • Patch SQL 2005 to SP2 + associated updates
  • Enable SQL clustering if relevant.
  • Create SQL DB with SQL-authenticated user as db_owner for the msdb and newly created databases (for VMware VirtualCenter and VMware Update Manager)
  • Create an ODBC connection with above information on targeted VC server
  • Install VirtualCenter
  • Add VirtualCenter server IP to Exchange Relay Access rulesets
  • Configure VirtualCenter SMTP settings, alarm definitions and Message of the Day
  • Copy/install sysprep/deployment tools files
  • Create required customizations
  • Create a datacenter object
  • Create a cluster object
  • Configure HA + advanced HA with VM HA monitoring
  • Configure DRS + separation rules
  • Install Update Manager - sync ESX host updates with VMware downstream servers
  • Configure VirtualCenter certificates as per this article from the excellent VM/ETC

Read the full post here.

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"As virtualization of network DMZs becomes more common, demand is increasing for information to help network security professionals understand and mitigate the risks associated with this practice. This paper provides detailed descriptions of three different virtualized DMZ configurations and identifies best practice approaches that enable secure deployment."

Read the full article here: DMZ Virtualization with VMware Infrastructure.

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