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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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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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.
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This video show the basics about Vmware vCenter Orchestrator, how to install, setup, configure, and apply some simply workflows.
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I was also glad to see how well Lab Manager 4 seems to have worked at Vmworld for the virtual labs because I am looking at deploying it at my place of employment. First things first though, I still have plenty of work to do documenting the process for upgrading to vSphere4, plus the...
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VMware Fault Tolerance is a new feature included in vSphere4 that ensures continuous availability for virtual machines against hardware failures. This feature will allow you to protect any application & any OS without modifications and provides a much more cost-effective way of running mission critical workloads than fault-tolerant hardware dedicated entirely to individual applications....
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The vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS) is a much improved version of the virtual switch or vSwitch found in Vmware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). The distributed switch offers new features, is managed at the datacenter level in vCenter Server, and spans across esx hosts which simplifies administration. Third party developers can create solutions for the distributed...
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This video show an HA cluster setup in vCenter 4 using Openfiler 2.3.
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The vCenter server is a central management server from Vmware for ESX. With vCenter multiple ESX host servers along with their resources and vm guests can be managed from one location. vCenter also provides additional advanced options and configurations that can enhance the management and add redundancy to a multiply ESX host environment. Some...
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