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The VMWorld 2010 Party was a blast this year. INXS rocked hard! Mix that with good food, lots of people, alcohol, I can't forget my wife, and you got yourself a hell of a show. Great job VMware.
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So, if you were at VMWorld 2010 and received a Golden Ticket, at first if you were like me, you wondered what did it get you other than a great seat. Well when that secret was let out the ticket holders were happy they had one.
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vSphere 4.1 gives more insight into storage areas of performance from within vCenter. Performance at all i/o areas are very important in large and small virtualized consolidated environments. Not having to leave vCenter and being able to see into more areas of the environment could help find problem areas faster.
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I have been using this online training from TrainSignal for at least a month now. There are many topics covered in their training packages for Vmware. I have been focused on watching vSphere Pro Series Vol 2 which covers topics like SRM, Data Recovery, Power CLI, Advanced features in vSphere, and the Veeam Management...
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VMware Fusion 3.1.1 is a FREE update for all VMware Fusion 3 users. Highlights of VMware Fusion 3.1.1 are: VMware vSphere 4.1 is now supported as a guest operating system Resolves issue around accessing some iSight cameras
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I am not sure if anyone else has seen this issue but just in case if your using a windows 2008 network share for vmware data recovery you could get “cifs_mount failed w/return code = -111″ when trying to add it. A couple things to fix this was that I added the domain and...
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Vmware has announced the release of vSphere 4.1. This is not a major version release but there are some major features being released in this .1 version. The list of new updates and feature are long so will go some of the most important or note worthy.
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In this blog I go over CA Arcserve 12.5 and XOsoft to show how they both can be used to give added data recovery options and get rid of tape in remote locations. Now there are many ways you could accomplish the same thing and this is just one. So, I was working with...
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Here is a simple powershell script to collect some esx host information (Name, Version, Build, Manufacturer, Model, Cpu Count, Core Count, ServiceConsole IP, and Vmotion IP). This is a modified script I originally found in the vmware community.
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This document outlines the process for creating an RSP vm guest. This document assumes that the reader has knowledge of creating vm guests using Vmware products. It is also assumed that the Riverbed Stealhead appliance is configured for RSP and the users of this document has the appropriate rights to manage the RSP functionality...
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