Friday, September 24, 2010

FREE e-Book Guide to VMWare Data Protection

Veeam is giving away a Guide to VMware Data Protection e-Book by Eric Siebert

You have to register and it is being release one chapter at a time with a new chapter available every couple weeks. The first chapter, An Introduction to VMware Virtualization, is available now at http://www.veeam.com/go/vmware-data-protection-disaster-recovery-expert-guide-c1

VMWare Converter Tips

Tips for doing Physical to Virtual (P2V) Conversions
http://vsphere-land.com/tips-tricks/converter-tips

This is another step that I add to the clean up after doing Win2K3 conversions
http://www.vmwareinfo.com/2008/07/speed-up-your-windows-2003-servers.html

There is some good best practice information in the VMware KB http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004588 and even a video http://blogs.vmware.com/kbtv/2010/01/best-practices-for-using-vmware-converter.html

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Enable SSH Tech Support Mode in ESXi 4.1

Use vCenter to enable remote SSH access to Tech Support Mode in ESXi 4.1
http://www.virtual-blog.com/?p=222