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 […]
How to backup a system partion to another drive with Acronis
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 […]
Basic partition operations with Acronis Disk Director Home 11 Video
Basic partition operations with Acronis Disk Director Home 11. Here is my little how-to video showing some really basic partition operations with Acronis Disk Director Home 11. This edition of Acronis just went out few weeks ago and its fully compatible with Windows 7. I did already a review of Acronis DDH 11 in my […]
How to install ESXi 4.1 inside of VMware Workstation 7.1
Run the latest VMware Hypervisor ESXi 4.1 in 7 minutes. In this new video which is destined to people who do not know that with VMware there is the amazing possibility to Install and test and run the latest hypervisor as a Virtual Machine. By using VMware Workstation 7.1 I’ll show you the install and […]
New feature in upcomming vSphere 4.1 – SIOC
Storage Input Output Control. One of the major improvements in the upcoming vSphere 4.1 is certainly the new storage IO control. (SIOC). With SIOC activated you can define QoS prioritization for the I/O activity on a single host or a cluster of hosts. Activating SIOC on your datastore, you’re able to prevent an individual VM […]
how-to power off unresponsive VM
Power Off unresponsive VM. It happens that you rencounter this trouble. A VM does not want to power off or restart. You cannot do anything with that VM so you’ll have to restart your ESX Server. And what if there is a solution? Yes there is. In the video below from VMware KB you’ll see […]
VMware Labs and project Onyx
Project Onyx. It’s not a sci-fi movie, but an easy way to translate actions you do in VI client into PowerShell Code with project Onyx. Still in alpha, but it’s still pretty impressive. What is it? It’s basically a script recorder for vSphere Client. Onyx converts mouse clicks into PowerCLI scripts. What it does? It […]
VMware KB video showing how to virtualize an application by using ThinApp
Virtualizing Opera 10 with Thinapp in 2 minutes. There has been a new video published few weeks back showing the basic process of how to virtualize an application by using Thinapp. Thinapp is a small application which you need first to install on a single system, to be able to use this system as a Matrix. […]
What is vSphere Mangement Assistant (VMA)?
What is vSphere Mangement Assistant (VMA)? It’s basically a virtual machine which runs on a Linux distribution. This VM can be used as a VM where you’ll run scripts and agents to manage ESXi hosts and vCenter server systems. One of the agents which are ofter run within VMA are agents for UPS systems. VMA has […]
Use VMware Workstation 7 for P2V
Use P2V with VMware Workstation 7 Instead using Vmware Converter standalone client you can use VMware Workstation 7 for P2V. There might be even some advantages. For exemple you might be on the road, at the client’s site, and you want to show to your client that his server is virtualizable and directly do a […]