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Zombie VMs Soon to be Hunted by vZombie

Yesterday I was working on a PowerShell script for identifying VMs that are using resources but their role is no longer required. Either because the server owner decided to use a physical server because the VM was not performing as required, or the duties of the VM are completed and the decommissioning process was somehow [...]

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

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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 [...]

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 template will allow [...]

Not Ready for vSphere

I’m not sure if anyone else feels the way I do about jumping on the vSphere bandwagon, however, I’ve decided to wait until 4.0 Update 1 is released before I consider the move.

I’ve seen the sales pitches and demos but no evidence is enough to convince me to join the rush to upgrade, especially when [...]