February 27, 2008 3:17 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover,
VI3,
VMware ESX,
VMware High Availability (VMware HA)When VirtualCenter (VC) 2.5 was released, I, like many others, started on a path to migrate to the new version for my VMware implementation. After the VC installation, my ESX hosts, which had only one network interface,...
February 21, 2008 8:33 PM
Posted by: Msant
Virtualization,
VMware ESXThe advent of virtualization has created a burgeoning market for systems management tools that can handle the complexities of virtualized environments. Now along comes KACE Networks Inc. with a systems management tool with a virtual twist: The...
February 20, 2008 9:33 PM
Posted by: Akutz
Andrew Kutz,
VI3,
VirtualizationThe VMware Infrastructure 3.5 Plugin and Extension Programming Guide - Revision 1 is now available at VIPlugins.com. This document is not sponsored or supported by VMware in any way. In fact, an excerpt...
February 14, 2008 3:56 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Andrew Kutz,
Rick Vanover,
Virtualization,
VMware ESXThe VMware Infrastructure client allows for plug-ins for third party applications and other enhancements. Andrew Kutz of lostcreations has released a plug-in for Storage VMotion that you can use outside of the VirtualCenter Remote Command Line...
February 12, 2008 3:44 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover,
VI3,
Virtualization,
VMware ESXThe VI3 Remote CLI (command line interface) virtual appliance (VA) is provided by VMware to perform Virtual Center tasks that you cannot do in the interface, or for tasks that you want to script for automation. The Remote CLI is...
February 4, 2008 3:23 PM
Posted by: Akutz
Andrew Kutz,
VirtualizationSo I use BackupPC for a lot of my SMB backup needs. For my money it is the best open-source backup program hands-down. However, one of the problems that I have run into is when I backup my VM directories on VMware Server systems, the VMs sometimes go...
February 4, 2008 3:22 PM
Posted by: Akutz
Andrew Kutz,
VI3,
VirtualizationThe latest version (1.5) of the formidable VI Perl Toolkit was released last week. What does the new download hold in store for eager developers? Well:
- Supports connecting to and managing VC 2.5, ESX 3.5, and ESX 3i servers
- Increased supported platform support (that you can install the VI...
