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 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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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 installing and configuring the HP P4500 SAN Appliance. This document is NOT meant for the HP VSA. This document assumes that the audience has the basic skills and knowledge of storage area networks.
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This document outlines the process for configuring iSCSI in Vmware vSphere 4 and ESX 4 environment. This document assumes that the reader currently understands and knows their way around vCenter 4 using the Vmware viclient. This document also assumes that the user has the appropriate rights to do all the tasks required. This setup...
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Take the quiz and improve your chances of passing the VCP4.
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Take the quiz and improve your chances of passing the VCP4.
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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. For this I have a video which shows the steps.
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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 been for some time full featured backup/restore products out there...
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