Microsoft has 10+ Virtualization videos in their free TechNet “How Do I?” site. These videos cover everything from Introduction to Hyper-V, P2V conversion/migration, virtualization assessment/planning, and various ways to use System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).
Checkout these videos at: Microsoft TechNet Virtualization “How Do I?” Videos
I recently read a VMware community thread about a new 3rd part VMware VCB GUI called VCB Management Console (vcbMC). We all know that VCB is not easy for new users to use and that I GUI interface sure would be nice.
To me, this sounds like an alternative to the future VMware Data Recovery as the vcbMC is free (today).
Read all about it and download the free vcbMC at- VCB Management Console 1.0.6 beta
How do you manage your VMware ESX Virtual Infrastructure when you aren’t at the office? Well, you aren’t using “dial up”, are you? While I may use my home Internet connection and a VPN or wireless at the local coffee shop, much of the time, I end up using my cellular data Internet connection.
I recently wrote an article about how I do this, what I use, and how good (or bad) the performance is. You can read the full article at: Using a cellular data network to manage VMware ESX
The world of virtualization management is a confusing one. There are lots of players out there. I suspect you are like me and you don’t have the time to demo all the different options. If that’s the case, then why not rely on your fellow VirtualizationAdmin.com readers?
Well, our readers have voted and they selected NetIQ’s AppManager as the best virtualization management suite. See for yourself, below. I plan on checking out AppManager myself!
See all the competition and how they stacked up at -NetiQ AppManager Suite - Voted VirtualizationAdmin.com Readers’ Choice Award Winner - Monitoring, Management and Performance
In this video, you will learn how to create many VMware guests, all at once, using a simple Excel spreadsheet and the VMware PowerShell add-ons.
Also, checkout Gabrie’s article about this topic at: Using Linux shell scripts to automatically create VMware ESX 3.5 hosts
As VMware ESXi doesn’t have the COS (service console operating system), it has been a challenge for 3rd party software vendors to adopt their products to work with it.
Veeam has a very strong virtualization suite of products and recently 3 of their major products were announced to be compatible with VMware ESXi.
Their 3 products that recently announced support for ESXi are:
Here’s a screenshot from the free FastSCP-
Did you notice the two new Virtualization videos here at VirtualizationAdmin.com ? If not, you need to check them out (especially because one of them was created by me).
Video #1-How to install a new Guest VM in VMware ESX Server
Video #2 - Backing up a Hyper-V Host Using DPM 2007
In my new article over at SearchVMware.com, I cover 5 options for connecting your VMware Guest VMs to CD or DVD media. This is a common question I get from those new to virtualization, no matter what virtualization platform they are using.
Of course the article covers physical media but also various types of “virtual media” like creating ISO files and an ISO library of your commonly used OS and Application CDs and DVDs.
Read the full article at: Five options for installing CD or DVD data on VMware virtual machines
I was reading a great article by Rich over at VMetc.com about how to sniff network traffic on VMware ESX vSwitches. To me, one of the benefits of ESX virtual switches (and now distributed virtual switches / dvswitches) is that you have this virtual switch that, you would think, would provide so many benefits to network admins in terms of performing easier network analysis.
This should be especially true with the new dvswitch and the Cisco Nexus 1000V from Cisco. If you think about a physical switch today where you want to do traffic analysis, the first thing you are likely going to setup to use a protocol analyzer (sniffer) is SPAN or RSPAN. These are what allow you to see traffic from all ports on a switch, all traffic in a VLAN, or all traffic across multiple switches, in your sniffer.
It should be true that VMware’s new dvswitch, connecting vnics and vswitches across all ESX hosts, would make sniffing traffic on the virtual network even easier. When those are released, we will find out!
For more information on sniffing network traffic on VMware ESX vSwitches, please read-
Twitter is one of the best communities for socializing about VMware and ESX (see my post Socialize about Virtualization and get the Latest Virtualization News by using Twitter!)
And,VMware does allow application developers to extend the functionality of VMware and the VI Client.
Still, I didn’t expect to see the day that Twitter would be usable inside the VI Client but Eric Sloof over at ntpro.nl has done just that!
Eric is offering a downloadable VI Client plug-in that allows you to use Twitter’s web interface inside the VI Client on a tab.
You can read more about it and download it for yourself at - Extending the VI Client with the Twitter Plug-in
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