The company I work for is going thru a datacenter migration currently in the Americas, Asia, and European regions. In the Americas we were lucky enough to have the new datacenter that were moving into around 15 miles from the current one. This gave us an opportunity to try vmotion and storage vmotion over... »
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CA Arcserve 12.5 and vSphere 4 VCB Pt2
I will assume that you have read the first post which goes thru the installation and configuration of the CA Arcserve 12.5 software which can be found here. Now that the environment has been configured we can configure a backup of the vm guests.... »
My conversion to the KVM hyperadvisor (Day Two)
So, this is my second day working with totally converting from having and Vmware hypervisor. You can read the Day One blog here. Today I was task to install a few vm guests, totally wipe my main Vista x64 desktop and install Fedora 12... »
Fedora 12 and the KVM hypervisor conversion (Day One)
I made and went forth with the decision to convert to Fedora 12 and the KVM hypervisor. This decision was not easy but hey... change is not always bad right? I just wanted to see how the KVM hypervisor and tools compared to... »
Test driving VMware Data Recovery (vDR)
One of the most important things next to virtualizing all those physical servers is backing them up and restoring them. This of course is not a great feat with virtualization since basically the servers are now a group of files. There are and have... »
Using vdrfilerestore.exe for file level restores
Click to Play This video shows how to use vdrfilerestore.exe from vmware to do a file level restore. »
Extending Partitions on VM Guests
Click to Play This video shows how to extend disk partitions in Windows Server VM guests using VirtualCenter, Diskpart, & SystemRescueCd. »
CA Arcserve 12.5 and vSphere 4 VCB Pt1
The recent release of 12.x has helped raise the bar of the backup solution. CA is getting better at backing up vm guests leveraging Vmware VCB. This provides a backup product which can be used for virtual or physical systems. »
vSphere4 vCenter Orchestrator Setup
This video show the basics about Vmware vCenter Orchestrator, how to install, setup, configure, and apply some simply workflows. »