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, [...]
When P2V’ing a server to ESX or vSphere, there is a small list of “clean-up” items that must be done to the new virtual image. I have added an additional item to my list that will modify the custom text and images that computer manufacturers add to the system properties dialogue box. Often when running [...]
A few weeks ago I attempted to build out a vCenter instance at an office in Europe, intended to be added to my main vCenter instance as a linked clone. Reading the release docs for vCenter 4.0, it is apparent that future releases of vCenter will not be supported in a 32-bit environment. This led [...]
My server of choice for running ESX 4.0 is currently Dell’s 2U PowerEdge R710. Recently I received 2 of these and began the build out process, only to find that the ESX 4.0u1 installer (and ultimately the entire OS) did not recognize either of the two Intel Quad Port GB server adapters I have installed. [...]
