October 22, 2008 5:35 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
SRMSome content is drifting out from this years VMworld which is specifically related to VMware’ Site Recovery Manager. I thought I would collate them into one handy post:
Introduction to VMware Site Recovery Manager
October 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherLast week I briefly noticed that David Marshall’s blog about some scenes at the FalconStor stand at this years VMworld. There was competition to pull out off the hat to win a Segway. One condition was that you had to be wearing a bright FalconStor t-shirt. Well, it turns out the guy who won had...
October 20, 2008 2:12 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
vCenterNow this is on vmware.com’s website in the VMware Communities > Beta Community section. It doesn’t appear like its beta programme you have to sign up to – I’m not even logged on to vmware.com and I’m seeing it.
So what is the VC Admin Portal? Its web-based console that provides a...
October 20, 2008 1:30 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherHope I didn’t hurt his feelings on that blog post. Perhaps I should start by dropping the Dr Evil tag, unless it has already stuck already. Sorry Richard, I was only pulling your leg! Anyway, VMware’s Richard G has put up a video-blog post of his recent keynote at the European VForum show. In...
October 20, 2008 1:27 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
ESXMy friend Miek DiPetrillo has been busy on his blog recently… Here’s a round up of his most interesting posts…
On Preventing Access to the “Download the Vi Client” webpage:
The blog post title speaks for itself!
October 20, 2008 1:18 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherI picked this one up from Chris Wolf’s blog last week. NPIV enabled fibre-channel adapters are ones that can present a WWN to the Virtual Machine. Primarily, this offers greater security when using features like RDMs – not only does the ESX host have to have a valid WWN, so does the VM. Support...
October 15, 2008 11:02 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
OtherI spent sometime with David Davis (of happyrouter.com and virtualizationadmin.com) at this year’s VMworld. David has an interesting article about how tricky getting Vista to run on Hyper-V is… and David guides you through the work around – although I see this as interesting indication of how...
October 14, 2008 8:59 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
VDIA couple of weeks ago I taught my first ever VMware Desktop Manager course. I was asked by the students whether direct access to the Microsoft ADAM backend was supported. It certainly is – and this PDF guide about bulk import/exports using LDF files is actually on VMware’s website:
October 14, 2008 8:51 AM
Posted by: MikeLaverick
CitrixNew to Private VLANs. Me to. Something I want to learn more about for my Site Recovery Manager work and also ready for Vi4. Thanks to Steve Bradshaw (of VMware) for these links:
