Monday, March 27, 2006

Backing Up the Virtual Machine - Computerworld

Friday, March 24, 2006

Virtual Strategy Magazine - How To Build An Effective Virtual Machine Template

Straight forward, easy to follow tutorial. If you are just getting started or want to see if you're missing any steps, check out this article.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

virtualization.info: Acronis adapts TrueImage to do P2V migrations

This is wonderful news. When we did our migration, we used Acronis to create the images of our physical servers and used VMware's P2V utility to update the image to its new VMware environment. Packaging this with a single product as good as Acronis makes a lot of sense. I'd like to see this implementation in action, making sure all the drivers are present in a single folder for the VM migration.

Monday, March 13, 2006

VMTN Posts Today

Scenario involving using VMware Player in a doctor's office

VMware and Microsoft licensing

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Intel and Vmware | Technology News Daily
Intel Corporation and VMware, Inc. will collaborate to bring the benefits of virtualization to enterprises and new market segments. In a keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel Senior Vice President Pat Gelsinger and VMware President Diane Greene announced expanded product support and a global joint marketing campaign to increase awareness and adoption of the technology. Intel also announced a new virtualization capability that VMware plans to support in its future products."

Monday, March 06, 2006

Virtual Strategy Magazine - Real-Time Replication for ESX Server: a Sneak Peek at esxReplicator

Vizioncore makes great tools for VMware ESX enterprises. The CEO of Vizioncore, David Bieneman, gives us a peek at their new product. Sounds great for an off-site standby setup.

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

virtualization.info: VMware Challenge suggestions

If you haven't heard about he VMware Challenge, read here. Otherwise, Mr. Perilli has some great suggestions if you're trying to win the $100,000 prize.

virtualization.info: VMware ESX Server 2.5.2 Upgrade Patch 4 released!

I've been stable at Patch 3 so I'll probably hold off for now.