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SUSE Linux Entreprise Server on VMware

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Vmware And novel signed strategic partnership. In fact VMware singes partnership with NOVELL concerning the SLES distribution. With your purchase of VMware vSphere, you’ll be able to get a subscription to SUSE Linux, the updates etc…as part of the vSphere product. VMware is able to distribute SUSE Linux software inside appliances or as part of […]

vExpert Directory and more…

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A week or two back when the vExperts awards 2010 has been announced, Arnim Van Lieshout took an initiative and created a vExpert Directory. I was quite supprised that Arnim started such an initiative, since I can barely imagine the HUGE amount of work to have a list of vExperts as much as close to […]

New PDF – Best practices for NFS

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There has been a new release of a PDF document from VMware. With NFS present in many client’s installation of Virtual Infrastructures, you might want to find out some tips and tweaks for NFS running with VMware vSphere. You’ll be able to find some new tips and tricks for NFS based storage. This new white […]

How-to update VDR to 1.2

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How to update VDR without loosing all restore points and configuration. With the update of VDR – VMware Data recovery the question is how to proceed to an update to the latest version without loosing the configuration settings, backup jobs and the deduplication stores. In my lab I tested the step by step solution provided […]

VMware Released a second update for vSphere 4

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ESX 4 U2, ESXi U2 and vCenter U2 Released. Together with VMware Data Recovery 1.2 released yesterday, there has been an update for vSphere 4 too. It’s a vSphere 4 U2. About 6 month earlier the U1 was released and there has been some questions, (all the beta users and of course VMware Employees knew) […]

Blogging for sharing, not for being vExperts

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Why blog? For sharing. That’s my principal idea since the beginning of my website, (I prefer to call it website, because now of it’s layout it’s more like a e-zine, not a blog … 😎 ). I started to write posts, because I wanted to share for free my step-by-steps, how-to’s, learning experiences with other […]

How-to perform a manual integrity check in VDR when you have damaged restore point

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Need to initiate a manual integrity check of your Deduplication store? The other day after I return from holidays, that one of the restore points was marked red color in our VDR (VMware Data Recovery) appliance and that the backups were not executed. The integrity check failed because of that damaged restore point. (BTW you can […]