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), [...]
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 [...]
Just a quick note that this week I upgraded from VCP on VI3 to VCP on vSphere. This test was quite challenging, but Ive been working with vSphere since it was in beta and had a lot of practical knowledge using the product.
There are mannnnnny other virtualization blogs posting great links to study material. Between [...]
