19 June 2011 ~ 4 Comments

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 [...]

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19 June 2011 ~ 2 Comments

VMware P2V Checklist for Servers

In November I visited the VMware users group for the Phoenix area and one of the big topics was P2V. Not enough can be said about all the challenges there are to successfully convert physical servers to virtual servers (P2V), especially when your data center has hundreds of servers with various configurations and operating systems. Sometimes [...]

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19 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

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 [...]

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19 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

VMware Jobs and Careers

VMinstall.com has teamed up with SimplyHired to add 100s of great job links to our website. Be the first to search for VMware and virtualizations jobs using our new job search engine. <jobs>  VMinstall.com  

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