Archive for February, 2010

According to this BLOG post, vStorage support for EMC’s Legato Networker is coming some time in the 2nd half of this year. This is great news.
Thanks to Brian at Going Virtual for posting this good news.

Received this a few minutes ago.. will have to see what’s up next with Legato Networker in terms of utilizing the new vSphere API’s!

Dear Valued Customer,
The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our vSphere backup product strategy, ongoing enhancements, and end of availability plans for VMware Consolidated Backup.
VMware Backup Product Strategy
VMware released [...]

Like most others out there, I have recently started hearing the ESX/VMware vs Hyper-V/Microsoft questions popping up throughout my day. While I have little experience with Hyper-V,  R2 certainly brings an impressive amount of features and several compelling arguments for it’s use over VMware’s product offerings. If you are a small to medium sized shop [...]

Since the primary objective of this blog is centered around tips and tricks I come across during my day to day work, I will from time to time give props to a tool out there that really changes how I do things. There are so many folks out there working on these types of tools/apps, [...]

This is an old one, but worthy of documentation…
By default root login over SSH is disabled in ESX 3.X and vSphere 4.X. While it is best practice for security to leave this disabled, from time to time a situation may warrant opening up this access.
To enable this on ESX 3.X and vSphere 4.X (w/service console), [...]

With Google Docs now supporting uploads of ANY file and a limit peaking at 1GB of file storage, I have been making an effort to utilize the service more. Today I went searching for a free tool to allow me to map this “cloud storage” as a network drive. Surprisingly, there aren’t too many options out there. [...]