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CloudHelp.org

I’ve been up to something new lately. Starting a new website called CloudHelp.org because it seems like most companies who were building virtual environments a few years back are now on the band-wagon to convert them into private or public “Clouds”. CloudHelp.org will hopefully evolve into a community for collaborating on building “Clouds”. Please take a moment and sign out <visit CloudHelp.org>

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VMinstall.com is looking for articles written by people who have a technical background in virtualization, server administration, storage and any skills relevant to the successful implementation, support and architecture of virtual environments. If you’d like to contribute please visit the “contribute” page and [...]

VMinstall.com adds SimplePress Forum to Website

We’ve added a new feature to VMinstall.com which will be very useful to the virtual infrastructure community, SimplePress Forum.

Our goal for the new year is a single community for many of the virtual environment vendors i.e. VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, Virtual Iron, and others here on the VMinstall.com. We invite you to help support our website by joining [...]

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BuddyPress Community has been added to VMinstall.com

Now you can become a member of VMinstall.com and share your expertise  in a community of other users who love to talk about virtualization. Just become a member an start sharing! <Register>

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3rd Party Tools for VMware, Hyper-V and XenServer?

I can’t keep up with all the 3rd party tools that are coming out on a daily basis for VMware, Hyper-V and XenServer. Have you used a tool lately that you would like to share a review on with VMinstall and its readers. We’d love to hear from you.

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Originally posted 2009-08-20 06:03:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Capacity Planning and Monitoring for VMware Virtual Infrastructure

If you have a growing Virtual Infrastructure, like most – it has out grown the monitoring tools integrated into VirtualCenter. VC has very limited capability to help resource managers and NOCs monitor and manage virtuals and this post will identify a few short falls.

There are actually three categories this post could be broken up [...]

Creating Windows templates for deployment in Virtual Center

This will cover Windows templates but the same steps are used with Linux, except the Sysprep.

After you get your VM the way you want it, patches, secured and have your applications installed, you right click on it in the inventory windows of your virtual center and select “convert to template”.

Converting to a [...]

Useful YouTube Video: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Demo on Quad-Core Intel Xeon

If you’re interested in Microsoft Hype-V Technology, I’ve found viewing the following YouTube video worth the 4-1/2 minutes: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Demo on Quad-Core Intel Xeon //

Originally posted 2009-02-15 07:53:11. Republished by Blog Post Promoter