Thursday, October 9. 2008
Cheating at your VMware job interview
Wednesday, October 8. 2008
Integrating Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 with VCB 1.5
Chris Skinner, a Senior Technical Instructor at VMware PSO-Education looked at Symantec’s Backup Exec 12.5 (released October 6, 2008) and how it integrates with VCB 1.5. This latest release does not require the separate integration scripts that previous versions of Backup Exec and many others required to integrate with VCB. Additionally, this latest version can restore a virtual machine backup directly into VirtualCenter using the standalone version of VMware Converter.
This paper documents the steps to successfully integrate Symantec's Backup Exec 12.5 with VMware's Consolidated Backup Framework 1.5. With this latest realease from Symantec, integration scripts provided from some vendors is the way to integrate with VCB. Backup Exec 12.5 includes these scripts within the application and provides the ability to restore a virtual machine directly into VirtualCenter using VMware Converter.
http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1191
Vizioncore added to the VCB Partner Integration Guide
Vizioncore announced that its flagship backup and restore product for virtual machines – vRanger Pro – has been named in VMware’s VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) Partner Integration Guide. This guide will offer information on VMware Consolidated Backup integrations developed by VMware Technology Alliance Partners. The functionality described is supported by the partner Support
organization directly rather that by VMware Global Support Services.
Fash Video Tutorials on ESXTutorials.com
ESXTutorials.com contains numerous VMware and Windows tutorials with new content being added on a frequent basis. This site differs by not only giving text based tutorials, but flash video tutorials as well. The following list of tutorials is already available.
- Extending a virtual disk
- Creating a virtual disk
- Unlink a NIC from a virtual switch
- Link a NIC to a virtual switch
- How to configure NTP for ESX
- Permit root logon
- killing a locked up virtual machine