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VMware Data Recovery – install and configure video- part1

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I’m trying to have a look at the new backup solution from VMware – vSphere DATA Recovery. VMware VDR It’s available since vSphere came out as a part or the SMB package – VMware Essentials Plus. At the same time as I’m learning, I’m doing some videos on it so I hope you guys that you’ll […]

Gain more free space with storage Thin Provisioning

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Thin provisioning can save you a LOTs of SAN space. You know that storage space on a SAN its expensive. Insdead of thinking how to get enough money to buy larger SAN or upgrade, why not instead migrate your VMs using a VMware Converter with thin provisionned disks? If you are using VMware Workstation, to […]

How-to quickly save and restore the network configuration of your Virtual Machines

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When you convert a physical server to a VM the resulting virtual machine’s network settings are all set to DHCP. It’s because the configuration settings of the static IP addresse of the source server are not retained on the resulting virtual machine after the conversion. I saw this discussion on one of the comments on […]

How-to install vSphere 4 inside of VMware Workstation

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I did my own video of installing ESX 4 inside of VMware Workstation. Whether you’re new to virtualization, or experienced user, to test if stuff works you need to practice. I’m using VMware Workstation to test stuff. The latest release is the 6.5.2. – build 156735. This video ROCKS (especially the music…. ) . What […]

How-to install an evaluation license for the Cisco Nexus 1000V switch

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Neal Mueller – Cisco product manager will show in this video how to install and try the software implementation of a Cisco Nexus 1000V switch. You can evaluate the fully featured Cisco Nexus 1000V during 60 days for 16 CPU. This is a great video, which makes the steps easy to follow. Where to get […]

Esxi 4 without the service console will replace the ESX 4 in a near future?

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I’ve heard this info here and there on twitter and today Eric Sloof again came with the info. The ESX 4 Red Hat linux console will dissapear in the near future. So the only Hypervizor will become the ESXi 4. What you will lose? I did not digg deep enough in the ESXi 4 yet […]

What to do when you can’t delete snapshot

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When you can’t delete snapshot. What to do? You know that one of the great features of VMware ESX is a possibility to take snapshot of your system on a regular basics. When something goes wrong, you just revert to the snapshot and here you go. But when the snapshot get’s stuck? You want to […]

VMware Backup Recovery solution upgraded to 1.0.1

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VMware Data Recovery is a Backup solution integrated into a SMB package VMware vSphere Essentials Plus and higher. This is a real graphical backup solution to provide recovery/backup for your VMs. Backup recovery it’s actualy VM appliance (yes, virtual machine) which operates inside of your environement. Data Recovery | 07 JULY 2009 | Build 176771 […]

Recreate a missing VMDK header file

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If your VMDK file is lost. How do I found out? It’s simple, if you don’t see your usual vmdk file through the VI browser, and you see some kind of file with yourfile-flat.vmdk, then you lost your descriptor file. Then it happens that your VM does not want to start. Sure, you can restore from […]

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