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Cisco TelePresence – On-Stage Holographic Video Conferencing
I know reading the title you wonder what does this has to do with Virtualizaiton, but if you look deep into it you will find out that some one has figured out how to virtualize human :). For example you have one instructur & he can do lecture in 20 different countries which is 100s…
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Vizioncore vRanger (Previously ESXRanger) Quiescing & VSS Setting for database Virtual Machines
This post is the third part of the “Vizioncore vRanger Quiescing & VSS Setting for image backup of Virtual Machines.” to start from the beginning of the series please start at: Vizioncore VRanger (Previously ESXRanger) Quiescing & VSS Recommended Settings. Or if you are looking for the recommendation for virtual machines which does not run…
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Vizioncore vRanger (Previously ESXRanger) Quiescing & VSS Setting for non-database Virtual Machines:
This post is the second part of the “Vizioncore vRanger Quiescing & VSS Setting for image backup of Virtual Machines.” to start from the beginning of the series please start at: Vizioncore VRanger (Previously ESXRanger) Quiescing & VSS Recommended Settings. Or if you are looking for the recommendation for virtual machines which run a database…
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Vizioncore VRanger (Previously ESXRanger) Quiescing & VSS Recommended Settings:
I have been always hit by customers who have a problem taking an image backup of virtual machines that run a database application. Another repeated question is “when & when not to use Quiescing & VSS with VCB & vRanger”. For that I have decided to write this set of posts hoping to answer these…
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VMware View manager problem when entering domain administrator for the View Composer setting
While trying to add the domain administrator to my VMware View Composer settings in VMware View Manager, I was getting the following errors repeatedly: Wrong Domain Bad user name or Password I have found out that the problem was caused by my Virtual Center where VMware View Composer reside was not a part of the…
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VMware VCDX Enterprise Exam 3.5 Study Guide
As VMware the Virtualization market leader has released their new certification VCDX & More question started poping up of how to prepare for the exam. As there is almost no official study book for VCDX up to the moment. I thought I would share two valuable resources to prepare for the exam. Please note this…
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VMWARE ESXi – Host in HA Cluster must have userworld swap enabled
I had always been using the VMware ESX version in my implementation. As I noticed that VMware seems to be pushing toward the move to ESXi, I had decided to try the latest version for a full scale installation. Though when I was trying to configure HA for my VMware ESXi Cluster, I had been…
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VMware ESX & USB & Parralel dongles
When ever I attend a VMware presentation, one of the most common question “How would we handle our USB or parralel licenses dongles in VMware ESX.” Are they supported? Can I get them to work some how? What make the question more critical that most presenters are from a sale or pre-sale background and does…
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VMware ESX & Virtual Center 3.5 upgrade guide
It might be the time for you to upgrade your VMware ESX servers to VMware 3.5U3 and Virtual Center 3.5U4. You might even just want to upgrade to any version of VMware ESX & vCenter 3.5. Then this guide linked to below is all you need. It has a great step by step instruction of…
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VMWare ESX: How to recover your VMFS partition table
You might wake up for a bad day after a power outage or a storage failure. You thought it was over, after you had succeeded to bring all your machines back up and running. In few minutes you found out that some of your virtual machines are missing. After a small investigation you found out…
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Redhat announces a change in Virtualization Strategy
Redhat has announced an interesting change in their virtualization strategy. They seems to dump Xen for KVM in their upcoming releases. This will be a happy news for a lot of open source lovers. As Citrix & Microsoft are controlling the way Xen is evolving, they would rather a real open source alternative. Redhat has…
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Top 10 VMware VMworld 2009 Videos
Finally back home :). Don’t get me wrong Cannes was great, though nothing like being back home. OK for people who did not get to join us in Cannes, I had for them a free ticket for the replay :). I wish I could afford to give our visitors a VMworld pass for free, but…
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Citrix XenServer Enterprise for free
After the News that the bomb had been launched by Virtualization.info: http://www.virtualization.info/2009/02/citrix-xenserver-is-now-free-xencenter.html Citrix has officially released their enterprise version for free check out the announcement at Citrix XenServer Enterprise for free: “First of all Citrix is releasing for free the Enterprise Edition of XenServer. This is not a scaled down, limited version of the Hypervisor.…
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VMworld 2009 announce vSphere, vCenter Server Heartbeat, VMware vShield Zones
VMworld Europe 2009. VMware has used the VMworld Europe 2009 to announce two new products that will be available this year: 1- vCenter Server Heartbeat: Comes to solve the problem arising from a possible collapse of the server that manages the VMware virtualized platforum, specifically vCenter Server earlier known by Virtual Center. The vCenter Server…
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VMware ESX – VMware VMotion
What’s VMware VMotion? VMware VMotion enables the active migration of running virtual machines from one physical server to another without interruption of service, availability of service and complete integrity of transactions. VMware VMotion moves running virtual machines from one physical server to another while maintaining service availability. VMware VMotion allows IT organizations to: Perform live…