February 15, 2009 2:28 AM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
http://www.vmware.com/go/importvima/vima1.ovf,
lamw,
remote cli,
scripting,
scripts,
VI Perl Toolkit,
VI Remote CLI,
VIMA,
virtual appliance,
VMWare,
VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant,
VMware remote command line,
William LamHi folks, I wanted to bring your attention to a VMware virtual appliance. This appliance is called VIMA, VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant. It is a virtual appliance running Red Hat Enterprise Linux from which you can run...
January 29, 2009 3:23 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
replication,
virtual machine replication,
Vizioncore,
VMWare,
vRanger,
vRanger Pro,
vReplicatorSo you finally have your VMware environment all set up and everything is running great. Everyone is on board with virtualization and you were able to consolidate your data center down to one server room with one rack. Now all of a sudden you're tasked with the duties of replication to another...
November 25, 2008 7:43 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
Convert virtual machine to ESXi,
ESXi,
P2V to ESXi,
VM,
VMWare,
VMware converterNow with ESXi being free, a lot of people find themselves using it. One of the things people want to be doing is converting their existing servers and importing them into their new ESXi server.
Another thing you can do is take any existing virtual machines you might have setup under VMware...
November 21, 2008 2:42 AM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
scared of virtualization,
Traditional servers,
Virtualization,
VMWareHi folks, this is going to be a bit of a rant..... You see lately I've been running into more and more people who refuse to embrace virtualization. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about the people with real legitimate reasons not to virtualize. I'm talking about the people who have...
November 21, 2008 2:25 AM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
ESX,
ESXi,
Snapshot,
snapshots,
snapshotting,
VMWareHi folks, here's a standard feature of VMware that a lot of people take for granted that I thought would bear mentioning. Snapshots!
So you have an application or patch you want to install and you don't know what effect it will have on your server. What do you do? Take a snapshot! With VMware...
November 9, 2008 11:16 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
Cisco,
Cisco buys VMware stock,
Cisco Nexus 1000V,
virtual switch,
VMWare,
VMware stockAs you may have already heard, not to long ago Cisco announced the Cisco Nexus 1000V switch for use with VMware. This is a virtual switch that leverages VMware's technology but uses the power of Cisco networking. Why is this...
November 9, 2008 10:44 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
ESX 3.5,
ESXi 3.5,
hot VM backup,
live virtual machine backup,
Vizioncore,
VMWare,
VMware Update 3,
vRangerHi folks, VMware Update 3 is now out and it addresses quite a few outstanding issues. You can read about the resolved issues in the release notes here. With VMware Update 3 out now once again you should...
October 11, 2008 8:49 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
ESX 3i,
Hyper-V,
standalone,
Virtualization,
VMWareHi folks, as you may have heard by now, Microsoft has announced the standalone version of Hyper-V! They have decided to call it Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. It should be interesting to see what this announcement yields in the virtual world.
Hyper-V Server 2008 does not have support for...
September 29, 2008 6:24 AM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
backup,
backup agents,
Backup Exec,
ESX,
ESXi,
Hyper-V,
Microsoft,
Symantec,
Symantec Backup Exec 12.5,
virtual,
virtual machines,
Virtualization,
VMWare,
windows agentSo this just in. Just in case if you were still wondering if there was anything to the virtualization mantra that is being constantly recited through the IT community, Symantec has announced that you no longer need to purchase individual Symantec Backup Exec agents for each guest OS that exists on...
