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How to install Zimbra as a VM inside VMware Workstation 7.1

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Quick installation video of Zimbra virtual appliance inside of VMware Workstation 7.1 In this little video you’ll see a quick installation steps of Installing zimbra as a Virtual Machine running in VMware Workstation 7.1. The Zimbra VM appliance can be used as a 60 days trial. You can start with the trial and change later […]

Veeam Backup & Replication v5.0 is here

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Veeam Backup and Replication was awarded during VMworld 2010 this year as a Best of Show and Best New Technology. The majority of the users of virtualization products today are facing  several problems like the speed of the restoring process or length of the backup window. But one of the primary fear of a Virtual […]

Thin device from nComputing

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nComputing was present at VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen. If you have not had the chance to attend VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen, you would certainly be holding in your hands one of the devices being given away at the nComputing stand. The device presented there was a small lightweight client L 300 which was given away […]

VDR appliance not mounting automatically the backup destination after reboot

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VDR not mounting automatically a deduplication store. I was having issues with not mounting automatically the backup destination after rebooting the VDR appliance since some time now. This was happening in my environment since I upgraded to the VDR 1.2. This is something that I was aware of and I usually mount the destination deduplication […]

VMware Product interoperability matrix

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Is this or that product works on that or not? Where to see? In this video from VMware you’ll see the new Interoperability matrix page in action. With the numbers of versions of products, it a great idea to be able to see which version of product is compatible with which version of platform. Picture […]

VDR – how to get a log bundle before you call the support

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VDR – VMware Data Recovery While listening this year’s VMworld Session on VDR – VMware Data Recovery  – while on many of the information I already knew and was aware of, because I install and use VDR quite often. There was an information about how to collect the diagnostic logs, in case anything gets wrong. […]

Difference between USB device pass-through and VMDirectPath I/O Direct IO pass-through

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USB device device path-through is vMotion aware, not VMDirectPath. I just stumbled into this KB showing what’s the difference between USB device pass-through and VMDirectPath I/O Direct IO pass-through. Read on if you’re not sure or you want/need to get a specific high-speed configuration with 10Gigs NIC available only for your VM (without the Virtualization […]

But, what that vPower is?

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Veeam Backup and Replication v. 5.0 brings vPower. What is that mean? Veeam announced the general availability Veeam Backup and Replication v. 5.0. I was expecting to see Veeam Backup and Replication launch during the VMworld Europe 2010 in Copenhagen, but one had to wait few more days to see the news… The fifth version […]

How-to setup number of cores per CPU in a virtual machine

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Since vSphere 4.1 VMware supports Multicore Virtual CPU technology. You may not only implement and assign how many vCPU per VM (up to 8 vCPU in entreprise plus, up to 4 vCPU for the others), but also you can define how many cores per vCPU that VM will have. This could be used to maximize […]