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VMware Infrastructure 3 Demo Video by VMware

This video shows a demo of VI 3 which is an older version of VI but the video demonstrates most of the features of VI such as: VirtualCenter, HA, DRS, vMotion which are included in VI [...]

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.

Originally posted 2009-08-20 06:03:56. Republished by [...]

Virtual Machines Running or Registered on Multiple ESX Servers

Does your vCenter flicker when browsing clusters? There could be a problem…

Over the last 3 years I’ve seen this happen twice and both times it was not good. Both cases were caused from an HA event that was interrupted, which left multiple VMs registered on more than one host. Fortunately, the VM stays running and the fix does not cause [...]

PowerShell Script for Snapshot Backup of Hyper-V VM

PowerShell Script for Snapshot Backup of Hyper-V >>>Download Off-line <<<

How are you backing up your Hyper-V VMs? Agent backups with a legacy backup software like NetBackup. This is good for file by file backups but is a real pain if you need to do a full system with system state restore. Too often system admins get [...]

Microsoft Hyper-V Debutes for $28 per License

The long awaited Microsoft Virtual Server dubbed Hyper-V has now been released. At $28 a license, verses $7, 000 – $14,00 for VMware ESX, it should be well received with the economy possibly suffering from a recession.

Should you install Hyper-V instead of VMware VI? Let’s see, one of the many purposes of virtualization is to [...]

VMWorld 2009 was Really a Storage Conference

I’ve mentioned this in a few of my blog posts over the years and here it is again – “Storage has been a major oversight by most companies deploying VMware Virtual Infrastructure”. News Flash! This was confirmed at the recent 2009 VMWorld …

What I’ve heard and read about VMWorld 2009 is that it was really [...]

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

Free VM Tool – ToutVirtual VirtualIQ Pro – Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and/or VMware

Free VM Tool – ToutVirtual VirtualIQ Pro – Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and/or VMware >>> Download <<<

Last week I wrote about Trilead VM Explorer for managing VMware ESX and 3i hosts without vCenter, today I am writing about VirtualIQ Pro which looks like a similar product except VirtualIQ Pro is hypervisor-agnostic supporting both Type I [...]

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