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Getting Started with a vCloud Service Provider Part 2 (a customer How-To)

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

In the first part of this article I showed you how to get a vApp provisioned with two virtual machines. However we did not load the operating systems in them or do anything else, this article will show you how…

Getting Started with a vCloud Service Provider (a customer How-To)

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

The goal of this post is to convey just how easy it is to work with virtual machines in a public cloud that is using VMware vCloud Director software. This post will assume that you have already signed up with…

Hyper-V 3 for Me

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Brad Eley | 2 Comments

Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform may be a 12 year old hanging out with a bunch of high school seniors, but this pre-teen is mature for his age. Could Hyper-V be the Doogie Howser of virtual infrastructures? I am humbled to…

AppAssure Replay 4: A First Look

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

If you’re in the market for a backup product that not only does virtual servers but also physical servers, you may want to take a look at Replay from AppAssure. The guys at work have been after me to try…

Design Tip: Switching in a VMware Environment

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Switching is the backbone of every network, without it, you really don’t even have a network. In a VMware environment, it can be twice as crucial because iSCSI also depends on Ethernet switches. Normally for front-end connectivity (from VMware servers…

vSphere 5 Redo Log Warnings + Veeam Issues

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

I found a new error in vSphere 5 today that I haven’t seen in previous versions of vSphere purely by accident. I set up a Veeam Backup and Replication VM to temporarily backup some VM’s and after several failed backup…

New VMware Workstation 8 Features

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

Yesterday VMware released Workstation version 8 officially and touts over 50 new features. Naturally, I had to check it out, and I must say that version 8 is pretty impressive. The first thing that I noticed is the ability to…

HP NIC Teaming on 2008 Server Core

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Justin Paul | 9 Comments

As part of an upcoming HyperV project, I was tasked with installing 2008 R2 Server Core with the HyperV role on an HP DL360 G7 server. So I started out by loading the Windows OS just like normal… with the…

HP ESXi Hosts continually disconnect from vCenter

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Today I set up three new ESXi 5.0 hosts with the HP Branded ESXi media, all went well until I joined the hosts to vCenter. After joining and registering with the vCenter server then became disconnected. I tried to manually…

Building a vCloud Lab Part 5: vCD Installation

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Now that we have our hardware all in place, vSphere 5 Installed, our database configured and running, and vShield deployed we are ready to build our vCloud Director virtual machine, which will be Red Hat Linux, and get vCD setup…

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