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VMware vCenter Data Recovery

If you haven't heard about VMware vCenter Data Recovery, you soon will! This is a full-featured backup and recovery program for VMware ESX guest virtual machines. I saw a demo of it at VMworld 2008 and was very impressed. I plan to soon be beta-testing this be virtualization backup solution and ...

Learn how to configure and monitor VMware ESX Servers with SNMP

In my latest SearchVMware.com article, I show you, step by step, how to enable and configure SNMP in VMware ESX and ESXi Server. From there, I move on to demonstrating a few different applications that can be used to monitor your VMware ESX Servers using SNMP. Monitoring VMware ESX Servers ...

Dallas VMware User Group (VMUG) - Update 3Q 2008

I recently attended the Dallas / Fort Worth Area VMware User Group (DFW VMUG) meeting. We had an amazing turnout of 75+ attendees. Dell presented their storage array technology and how it integrates into VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM). VMSight presented their performance management and reporting software for VDI. DFW ...

Site Recovery Manager - Book and Free Webcast with Mike Laverick

Mike Laverick of RTFM Education has written the book (literally) on Site Recovery Manager (SRM). He did a book signing at VMworld and now his book is on sale at Lulu.com. You can buy the 300 page bible on SRM at- Administering VMware's Site Recovery Manager by Mike Laverick. If ...

Get an exclusive Hyper9 Beta invite from VMwareVideos.com

Thanks to the generosity of the guys over at Hyper9, they have given me 10 exclusive invitations to hand out to VMwareVideos.com visitors. In case you haven't heard, Hyper9 is a very exciting new 3rd party tool for VMware ESX/VI. With Hyper9, you can much more quickly navigate your VMware ...

Performing a P2V conversion to VMware ESX Server using VMware Converter Enterprise

In this latest article by David Davis, VMware ESX video training author, he explains step by step how to use VMware Converter Enterprise to perform a P2V Conversion. Read the full article over at VirtualizationAdmin.com - Performing a P2V conversion to VMware ESX Server using VMware Converter Enterprise.

Video- Andrew Kutz on how to create VMware Plug-ins

Andrew Kutz is most well known for writing THE SVMotion plugin. However, he has also written a number of other VMware plugins and sudo for windows. In this VMworld 2008 session, Andrew covers step by step, how to create VMware Infrastructure Plugins. If you are interested in creating a plug-in ...

Video- VMware’s Distributed Power Management (DPM) in action!

I just love the idea of VMware's DPM! I mean, why not turn off the severs and save electricity when they aren't in use? This video does an excellent job of showing that DPM works - for real. Watch and see for yourself! [youtube]Nkv0fhu-m2k[/youtube]

Interview with David Davis and John Troyer from VMworld 2008

While at VMworld 2008, I was interviewed by John Troyer, VMware Communities Guru, about what was going on at the show. We discussed the "Best of VMworld" products judging that I did and the products I selected (Cisco Nexus and Vizioncore vOptimizer Pro). John and I talked about vLockstep and ...

Deploying VMware Infrastucture by Daniel Conde and other VMware Experts

I met Daniel Conde of VMware at a book signing during VMworld 2008. He was signing his book "Deploying VMware Infrastructure". I talked with him and read parts of the book. The book is written by him and and number of other VMware experts. I like the book because it ...

Webcast: David Davis - Scaling up Backups as virtual environments grow

I just got an email about an interesting webcast concerning "Scaling up Backups as virtual environments grow. Then I realized that the speaker was me. So, I hope you will check out the webcast I did a couple months back covering virtualization and backups. The tips you will learn in ...

Video: David Davis covering vLockstep from Data Center Decisions Conference, October 2008

In this video, TechTarget editorial director Jan Stafford interviews virtualization expert David Davis about VMware's new high availability tool vLockstep. Davis gave a step-by-step tutorial on how to use vLockstep at the recent TechTarget Data Center Decisions 2008 Conference in Chicago.

Video: TechTarget DCD Expert - Andrew Kutz - discusses using virtualization in a lab

I spoke at TechTarget's Data Center Decisions conference in Chicago last week. One of the speakers was Virtulization Expert, Andrew Kutz (author of the famous SVMotion plug-in). In this video, Andrew discusses using virtualization in a lab environment. Click on the video to watch the full interview...

David releases updated VMware ESX Server 3.5 video training course!

I recently completed my updated VMware ESX Server 3.5 video training course. For over a year now, my ESX 3.0 training course has been a "best seller", helping thousands of IT Pro's learn VMware ESX & VMware's Virtual Infrastructure Suite. In the new course, I have updated videos on how ...

Download a Free VMware ESX Performance Monitoring tool - VM Monitor

SolarWinds free VM Monitor makes it easy to quickly check the health of your VMware ESX server by monitoring CPU, memory utilization, virtual machine status. The Petri IT Knowledgebase has recently made this tool available to all site visitors. To download your free VM Monitor tool, just visit: ...

What’s in your bag of swag from VMworld 2008?

I had a ton of t-shirts in my bag of swag from VMworld 2008. In this video, Jan and Hannah of TechTarget share what they had in their bag o' swag from VMworld 2008. Check it out!

VMworld 2008 Video Blogs by David Davis, Scott Lowe, Andrew Kutz and more

I just returned from VMworld 2008 where I was a judge for the best products of VMworld. I was honored to be a part of a group of well known virtualization experts such as guys like Scott Lowe, Andrew Kutz, and Mike Laverick. These guys have tremendous insight into the ...

Running a Virtual Router & Firewall inside VMware ESX with Vyatta

In this video, you will learn how to run a Virtual Router & Firewall inside VMware ESX with Vyatta. [viddler]b90b0177[/viddler]

Running VMware ESX 3.5 and ESXi in Workstation on your desktop PC

In my new video, I demonstrate, step by step, how you can run VMware ESX Server 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 inside VMware Workstation 6.5. This is also shown in my Train Signal VMware ESX Server video training course. While you wouldn't run ESX in Workstation for a production server, running ESX ...

In a move to Cloud computing - VMware accounces Virtual Data Center OS (VDC-OS)

With the start of VMware's VMworld conference in Las Vegas this week, VMware made a huge announcement with a move toward "cloud computing". As you can see in the diagram above, VMware's new product line is broken down as: Application vServices guarantee the appropriate levels of availability, security and scalability to all ...

VMware Engineer Presents Site Recovery Manager from VMworld Europe 2008

In this high quality video, Jeremy Van Doorn, Senior VMware Engineer covers what Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is and how it can help you. [viddler]75973300[/viddler]

ESXi Video - the easy way to get started with virtualization

I just watched this free VMware webcast covering how VMware ESXi is the easiest way to get started with virtualization. I found it to be a great overview of ESXi and I would recommend it to anyone who is new to virtualization and is interested in trying out ESXi. To ...

Understanding VMware ESX Server Security Profiles

In the latest article by VMware ESX video author, David Davis, learn how VMware ESX security profiles are the firewall of ESX Server, why they are so important, and how to configure them. Read the full article at: Understanding VMware ESX Server Security Profiles

A First Look at the New VMware Server 2.0 RC1 (and How it Compares to ESXi)

For many years, VMware Server has been VMware’s sole FREE virtualization offering. VMware Server runs on top of the Windows or Linux operating system and is an excellent platform for server virtualization. Recently, it was announced that VMware ESXi Server will now be offered at no cost. Now, if you ...

Video: VMware posts video on how Hyper-V’s quick migration fails

VMware was nice enough to demonstrate to us VMware users why we use VMware - because Hyper-V's quick migration doesn't stack up to VMotion. Watch this official VMware video to learn more... [bliptv]793841[/bliptv]

Video: Debugging VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta with Record & Replay

VMware recently posted some great videos over at blip.tv and I will be posting links to them here at VMwareVideos.com. One of those videos covers a cool new feature of VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta - Record and Replay. Take a look... [bliptv]1051171[/bliptv]

Video: Demonstration of VMHA during an uplanned outage

In this video, Scott Hansen of the DellTechCenter demonstrates exactly how VMware High Availability (VMHA) kicks in to prevent downtime in the event of an uplanned outage. My favoriite part is when they actually pull the blade server from the rack to make the server go down. [youtube]ZUtmogrGnTQ[/youtube]

Best of VMworld Awards

I will be a judge at the Best of VMworld Awards product competition this year at VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas. I am very excited about it and I hope that all companies who have a VMware-related product submit their nomination. So, does your company produce a VMware-related software application, hardware ...

VMware commericials (like Geico) “saves a ton of money in my infrastructure”

Over at VMware's SMB website, they have produces some very funny promotional videos for VMware. These videos remind me a lot of those Geico commercials where they say that they "saved a ton of money on their car insurance". However, in these videos, the VMware customers talk about how they ...

Video: Learn how you can replicate VMs to another site with Double-Take

In this video by a Double-Take product manager, he explains how you can use Double-Take to replicate ESX Server virtual guests from one data center to another. He does a great job of detailing this out on a whiteboard. [youtube]nTRPqDJbnhs[/youtube]

Learn how to integrate VMware ESX Server with Dell OpenManage

Mark Clifton from Dell's Executive Briefing Center talks about how to intergrate Dell OpenManage with VMware's Virtual Infrastructure to create a resilient environment against hardware failures. [youtube]Q2t3tye2xXQ[/youtube]

Storage VMotion video demonstration from Dell Tech Center

The guys over at DellTechCenter continue to crank out some great content covering both VMware and other vendors' virtualization solutions. In the video below, Todd Muirhead demonstrated VMware Storage VMotion in action. [youtube]7EfGJaYnQjM[/youtube]

VMware VI Toolkit training video

[caption id="attachment_47" align="alignleft" width="275" caption="VMware VI Toolkit Training Video"][/caption] The new VMware VI Toolkit 1.0 for Windows is a toolkit that works with Microsoft Powershell to allow you to write powershell scripts that can configure and administer VMware ESX Server. VMware has released a free webinar/training video that shows you what ...

Train Signal to announce updated VMware ESX 3.5 training course for VMworld 2008 in September

[caption id="attachment_41" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Train Signal VMware ESX Server Video Training Course"][/caption] This just in - Train Signal Computer Training - the global leader in computer training for IT Pros - will announce an updated VMware ESX Server 3.5 training course available just in time for VMworld 2008 (middle of September). ...

Diane Greene - OUT - “New Guy” IN

Today, VMware announced a huge change in their executive leadership - Diane Greene was "shown the door" and Paul Maritz was brought in as President and CEO - WOW! Diane Greene has been such a strong force at VMware - so visible at VMworld - and such a great promoter ...

VMware ThinApp Group- looking for a few good “infrastructure development engineers”

I was contacted by VMware to see if I knew any candidates that might want to work as "infrastructure development engineers" in the ThinApp / Application Virtualization Group. That a is very exciting place to be! Here is what they are looking for: You will be responsible for architecture, design & implementation ...

VMware Site Recovery Manager: How it can help you

In this latest article from David Davis, VCP, learn what VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is, how it can help you, and what the requirements are to use it. I hope you will check out: VMware Site Recovery Manager - How it can help you

Free 1 hour video - VMware ThinApp & Thinstall training video

According to VMware, their new Thinstall / ThinApp software allows you to "Run any version of virtually any application on a single operating system without conflicts. Encapsulate settings and configurations into a single executable file or MSI package that can be installed on physical and virtual desktops. Deliver and deploy applications ...

How VMware ESX performance trumps Hyper-V’s price by David Davis

In this new TechTarget article by David Davis, VCP and Train Signal ESX Server video author, David covers how VMware ESX trumps Hyper-V. It shows how VMware offers so many more features and has so much more maturity than Microsoft. Additionally, it points out how Microsofts Hyper-V isn't yet ready ...

VMware / Dell Site Recovery Manager Scripting Video

Dell & VMware have a nice Site Recovery Manager (SRM) video that covers how scripting works when using SRM. This video features Kiran Ranabhor, Technical Product Manager for DR, VMware. Very cool stuff!

New VMware-related website & How-To articles at VirtualizationAdmin.com

I am trying to spread the work about a new VMware Admin website - www.VirtualizationAdmin.com. This site offers many new VMware ESX Server How-to articles. They have lined up many talented virtualization authors. In fact, here are links to some of their recently released articles: What is Storage VMotion (SVMotion) and How do you ...

VMware Admin Job & what are the best VMware Admin job sites?

In this article, David Davis, VCP and Train Signal ESX Server video author discusses an interesting VMware Admin job opening and asks "what are the best websites to look for and post VMware-related jobs". Recently, a recruiter friend of mine approached me with an interesting part-time VMware Admin job at a company in ...

VMware VDI/VDM - How it can help you and 2 videos

Over at the Petri Virtualization website, I wrote about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and how it can help you. That article went from a basic intro to VDI, all the way to the various products used to implement it, and finally, a free (yet basic) way to implement your own ...