After creating a Distributed Switch I was looking at my storage and noticed a new folder called “.dvsData”. It looks like this folders contains the configuration of the Distributed Switch. I think it will be used when the vCenter server is down. I extracted one of the files so you can take a look at it. 134 :-)
Saturday, April 25. 2009
vNetwork Distributed Switch back-up files
Chris Akerberg's first post on Vizioncorum
Chris Akerberg, President & COO, Vizioncore is pleased to introduce Vizioncorum – the official blogging site of Vizioncore. Why did Vizioncore take this step to launch this site now? As virtualization becomes more mainstream, they felt it would be very valuable to the community to voice their expertise and knowledge and make it available to both those new to virtualization and those longer-term users of the technology.
The Vizioncorum Blog Panelists are Jason Mattox, David Feathergill, Scott Herold, Thomas Bryant, Brad Wagner and the Vizioncore Sales Engineers.
Migrate an Existing Virtual Adapter to a vNetwork Distributed Switch
I’m prepping the upcoming delivery of the “What’s New in VMware vSphere 4” training course. I decided to migrate the existing virtual adapters like the kernel port group and the service console port group from a vNetwork Standard Switch to a vNetwork Distributed Switch. I also switched over the virtual machines by configuring virtual machine networking on a vNetwork Distributed Switch.
This is a short walk through from the ESX configuration guide.
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VMware Data Recovery Demo
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Thursday, April 23. 2009
How-To: Hyper9 Search
In this How-To Video Series, Hyper9's own Zahid Ghauri walks the user through the search process in the Hyper9 product. The search language itself is a simple, yet powerful syntax that allows the VI Admin to create multi-clause, proper name and/or key word based search queries. You can do something as simple as "VM" or a phrase like "Microsoft Exhange". Multiple terms can also be combined to form more complicated queries. Watch this video for a step-by-step guide to start learning about all of the powerful queries you can perform in the Hyper9 product.
Where in the World is.... VMDoug?
Here are some video highlights from VMDoug’s recent trip to New Jersey and then Orlando for VMware Partner Exchange 2009. At the end of the video you will see a TweetUp organized by @Scott_Lowe and @RBrambley at the Veeam booth. Some VMware Partner Exchange Twitter folk actually showed up: @sbeaver, @ edsai, @vseanclark, @dsiles and @thinlaunchmike :-)