Monday, June 26, 2006

VMGuru : Restoring an ESX 2.X Virtual Machine on VMware Server

Nice article at VMGuru on using VMware server as a restore environment for disaster recovery on an ESX 2.x server. A GUI for the manual changes to the header file is forthcoming on VMGuru.

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virtualization.info: Whitepaper: Unofficial upgrade guide to VMware ESX Server 3.x and VirtualCenter 2.x

Thinking about upgrading to VI3, it might be worth checking out this paper.

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VMware Utilities

If you haven't checked out these utilities, you may find them a great deal of help. VMware DiskMount GUI and VMware DiskManger GUI are available here.

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Australia's Premier Virtualisation Community

The VMTN blog introduces a new blog in the community that has some good articles focused on VMware issues. Check it out.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Installing Windows 2003 (within ESX 3.0) on an 8 processor AMD64 Opteron server

Rockin'! Also enjoy Richard's installation of the ESX 3.0 which has some nice banjo. I need to play some of this when I upgrade. Thanks, Richard (http://www.cyclelicio.us)!

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Thursday, June 15, 2006

South Carolina VMware User Group - June 29th Meeting

Register to come and join us for the following:
Agenda: Upgrade/Migration Strategies to Virtual Infrastructure 3
* Intro's
* Elect Officers
* Discussion on Migration Strategies to move from ESX 2.x to VI3
* Q&A round-table

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Ecora First to Deliver Configuration Management Solution for VMWare

The press release says:
Ecora Reporter and Auditor for VMWare come loaded with 28 ready-made report templates, including:

• ESX security settings
• Virtual machine permissions
• VMFS files
• VMFS volumes
• ESX and GSX host overview
• Virtual machine summary
• Physical NIC and virtual switches
• Linux local users and groups, and many more.
Give it a try and let us know what you think.

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Thursday, June 08, 2006

Flash: VMWare eats Microsoft's lunch again, steals toys, cuts in line - Computerworld Blogs

Jeff Boles has a few words to say. Here is his final thought:
I think even the Microsoft fans in us love to love VMWare, because it finally makes our hope come alive - finally, a way to use this nice GUI OS without having to worry about how we're shooting ourselves in the foot. As VMWare continues to add tremendous depth to their product line, it doesn't look like competitors in the same space have a wing or a prayer.

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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

VMware Not Resting on Laurels, President Says

eWeek reports Diane Greene's announcement of VI 3 yesterday.

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VMware Infrastructure 3

Visit the VMware site for more info in detail about the products now available. Some nice pdf's concerning the details.

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Monday, June 05, 2006

VMware aims higher with new bundle | CNET News.com

VMware is introducing VMware Infrastructure 3, combining a number of products together as a package. Pricing is expected as follows:
VMware said Infrastructure 3 will be available this month in three versions: Infrastructure Starter for small and medium-size companies costs $1,000 per two processors; Infrastructure Standard is for companies consolidating department-level environments and costs $3,750 per two processors; and Infrastructure Enterprise, aimed at large companies, sells for $5,750 per two processors.

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