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

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

"The configuration described in this article is very generic, outlining how you can boot the ESX Server 3i version 3.5 Update 4 Installable image using PXE. The description provided outlines how you can boot from the network by PXE booting ESX Server 3i version 3.5 Update 4 Installable. This installation is completely stateless (it does not rely on the presence of a local disk). Therefore, the installation and post-install configuration are not persistent across reboot. If you want to automate the sever configuration at boot time, use the VMware Infrastructure Toolkit (VMware Infrastructure SDK). See the following page for links to VMware documentation related to SDKs: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html."

More information here and here.

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

"We roamed the conference halls, breakout sessions, labs, solutions exchange and streets of Cannes to bring you the following collection of videos from VMworld Europe 2009. Experience the conference below by watching the daily wrap-up, interview and highlight videos. You can also visit VMworld Europe 2009 Community Videos and Community Photos where attendees can post their contributions."

You can access all the videos here.

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

Overview

The official, high quality icons and diagrams from VMware. Make your VMware diagrams and presentation the best with these graphics. From the official branding team!

Intended Audience

VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) and VMware Architects (VCDX) to develop high quality diagrams using branded collateral.

Outline

The attached PowerPoint has the following graphics included

• 3D icons
• Flat icons
• Virtualized Server
• Build your own
• Traditional vs Virtual Architecture
• Consolidation
• VDC-OS
• VMware Infrastructure 3
• VMware Fault Tolerance
• VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch
• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware ESXi
• VMware Server
• VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• VMware vCenter Lab Manager
• VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager
• VMware vCenter Stage Manager
• VMware vCenter AppSpeed
• ThinApp Elements
• VMware ThinApp
• VMware ACE
• VMware View
• VMware vCenter Converter
• VMware Studio
• VMware vCloud

You can download the artwork here, more information here.

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

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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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

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

"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 the snapshot until the next backup. The only caveat is that it utilizes resources available to the Service Console of the ESX server running the backups as opposed to following the traditional method of offloading virtual machine backups through a VCB proxy."

You can find more information about the script here.

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

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 the version on the domain. When the passwords do not match the domain cannot authenticate the machine's system account credentials nor any user logins from that machine.

To ensure domain logins are successful:

1. Remove the virtual machine from the Windows domain.

2. Restart the virtual machine.

3. Join the virtual machine back to the Windows domain.

4. Restart the virtual machine.

Note: To prevent this issue from happening, disable machine account password updates. For more information, see How to disable automatic machine account password changes.

You can find the full KB article here.

Posted by Gabriel Maciel