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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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Here you have the 3 must read articles from VMwarewolf about VMware Infrastructure troubleshooting:

  1. Common Network issues in VMware Infrastructure

  2. Common System Management issues in VMware Infrastructure

  3. Common Licensing issues in VMware Infrastructure

"Resolution Paths are collections of modular steps that can be used to solve tech support issues.  Being modular, they can be re-used in other paths. A good example is using the ping command to test network connectivity.  This step is used in all kinds of troubleshooting procedures. Put a number of these steps together, and you have a method...Down the left side in yellow are common problems we get calls on. To the right of each problem are the steps you would take to resolve the problem. I have included hyperlinks to help get you to the answers fast."

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"Zenoss 2.3 includes improvements in Windows and Java application monitoring as well as native VMware management for Zenoss Enterprise Edition. We are also taking the opportunity to highlight over 30 new ZenPacks developed by the Zenoss community for expert monitoring of Asterisk PBX, Brocade Switches, Cisco Security Appliance, and many more."

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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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"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 available.

In this paper we discuss VUM 1.0 host deployment, latency, resource consumption, guest OS tuning, high-latency networks, and the impact of on-access virus scanning. We also provide performance tips to help customers tune the system for better performance."

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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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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...

You can read the full article here.

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SolarWinds free VM Monitor is an ingenious desktop tool that continuously monitors a VMware® ESX Server and its virtual machines, delivering the real-time virtualization monitoring that you’ve been missing. With VM Monitor at your fingertips, you’ll be able to track virtualization health at-a-glance and ensure your mission-critical apps never fail you. Go ahead, declare victory in the virtualization game and impress your boss and your fellow IT administrators with your newfound X-ray vision into ESX Servers!

SolarWinds free VM Monitor makes it easy to:

  • Quickly check the health of your VMware ESX Server by monitoring CPU, memory utilization, number of virtual machines configured and running, and much more

  • View detailed individual virtual machine health statistics including VM name, guest OS, and VM state, as well as processor, memory, and network usage

  • Leverage best practice thresholds to begin monitoring virtualized servers right out-of-the-box

  • Prevent performance degradation by watching threshold-specific indicators to visually alert you when problems occur

You can download the tool here.

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This is the link to the VMware KB 1006543 article that compares the features between ESX and ESXi.


I find it to be a nice quick reference in case you need to determine if one specific feature is available or not for ESX or ESXi.





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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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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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It seems that the latest beta update of Workstation 6.5 is now available for download!

Also, this release no longer forces the debug-code and it will expire at the end of October (so the final bits are for sure almost ready).



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I posted before how important I consider it is to use VMware Workstation as a learning platform for the VI environment and I am now very pleased to see that Xtravirt has updated its document explaining how to install VMware ESX 3.5 on Workstation 6.5 Beta. Here is the announcement:


"In 2007, like others in the global VMware community, Xtravirt developed a common methodology to install and run VMware ESX 3.x on VMware Workstation 6 together with a shared storage solution based upon an iSCSI software target. We called it ‘VI3 in a box’.


This allowed users and professionals in the IT community to create simple and cost effective VI3 infrastructures to test, learn about and demonstrate these environments.


Upon the release of VMware ESX 3.5 we found that this methodology did not continue to hold true. Although still possible to install ESX 3.5, when attempting to start a nested Virtual Machine on the ESX VM, the ESX VM panics, and a stop message appears.


However, with the release of VMware Workstation 6.5, build release 99530, a revised solution now exists.


This white paper documents the process to install and configure ‘VI3.5 in a box’."


You can access the updated document here.


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