Posts Tagged ‘ vSphere ’

Server virtualization changed the way IT has deployed most of its infrastructure for the last few years. Many companies are adopting a “virtualization first” policy because of all the benefits associated with virtualization. While most applications can be virtualized without any penalty to the application and user experience, there is still a worry about...
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Here is my review of the vmware vsphere client. If you haven't used it yet here are the basic requirements. The first thing your going to need of course is a vCenter server. Next head over to the vmware labs flings site and download the vcenter mobile appliance. Import the vCMA using vCenter then...
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Last week VMware release their iPad client for free in the iTunes store. This is a client that leverages the latest version of the vCMA which allow mobile devices to manage vCenter. A community site was also put up which has all the relevant information needed to get started using the VMware vSphere Client...
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VMware release Update 1 for the following products this week. Added support for database versions and operating system customizations, bug fixes, and product enhancements.
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I recently had a Fusion-IO engineer pushing the idea of using their products. Now Fusion IO products are great for enhancing performance for different systems that are would have storage bottlenecks using traditional spindle based drives.
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A video that shows how to increase storage on a VMFS datastore in vSphere 4.
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This video shows a quick overview of vNetwork Distributed Switch 4.0 to 4.1
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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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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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