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New designing tool for vCenter Update Manager 4.1

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VUM 4.1 Sizing Estimator. With a new tool published on VROOM! blog from VMware Performance Team you’ll be able to get the necessary informations when you’ll be designing you Virtual Infrastructure, and especially the vCenter Update Manager 4.1. In fact, you are able to get the right answer to your question whether to install the […]

Bridging network adapters in VMware Player 3.1

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Can be a helpful some time… In case you’re using VMware Player to run your VMs or test stuff, sometimes you can run into situation where your physical host with VMware player installed is connected to several networks. The host has several NICs. If you start a VM which has the bridged networking configured as […]

My new video of Paragon Hard Disk manager 2010

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Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 Server Edition. I was exploring the new Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 the user interfaces and played with some backups. So I thought, it’ll be a good idea to shoot a video…. This time there is some background music with… I think it’s a bit more convenient. Together with some […]

vSphere Pro Vol. 2 review

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Second volume of Professional training was released few weeks ago and I now received a copy from David Davis. TrainSignal released 2 other trainings for VMware vSphere and I already wrote blogpost and review about those two trainings. My first look about VMware vSphere Training  and also vSphere Pro Training Vol. 1 Review. So those […]

SIOC yes, but not in the SMB kit…

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Which vSphere 4.1  features really matters for SMB market. Since the release of the new vSphere 4.1 there has been quite a lot features presented from the technical side. One of the new features present is SIOC. The Storage Input Output control. Yes it’s great, but unfortunately you’ll not find this feature in the vSphere […]

Best practices KB on how-to install ESX 4.1 and vCenter

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How to install vCenter 4.1 and ESX 4.1 best practices KB. Browsing some KB articles this morning I found a KB with some best practices on how-to install ESX 4.1 and vCenter Server. I can highly recommend this one….It’s actually a walk through point after point to be fulfilled to successfully install your vCenter and […]

Hyper-V and new linux integration tools

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Apparently new version of linux integration services for Hyper-V v.2.0 The Microsoft Virtualization Team blog published version 2.1 of Linux Integration Services. This version is for Hyper-V v.2.0. The Linux integration components include support for both the synthetic network controller and synthetic storage controller that have been developed specifically for Hyper-V. Well, even if Microsoft […]

How to backup a system partion to another drive with Acronis

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How-to do a first backup of system partition with Acronis Backup and Recovery Advanced Workstation. Acronis backup Recovery Advanced Workstation is another product from Acronis which is very useful in production environments whether you need to manage physical computers. Usually the data are stored on the file servers, but what about the physical PCs which […]

How to Fix “Transaction log for database ‘VIM_VCDB’ is full” errors

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Transaction log for VIM_VCDB is full. A week or two after an upgrade of vCenter to the 4.1 version I ended up with a vCenter server service down. I could not connect with my VI client any more, so I RDP to my vCenter server and I saw the vCenter server service was down. I […]