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Today I had an interview with Puneet Zaroo, he has been working at VMware in the ESX server Group for the last 2,5 years with CPU scheduling algorithms. Prior to that he did his M.S. from Prudue University and Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in Computer Science. The photo is taken by Viktor van den Berg on his website you can find more TSX photo's.

Today I had an interview with Mike Laverick. He is the owner of  RTFM Education. On his website Mike placed numerous guides and white papers regarding the products of VMware. His daily job is delivering VMware training across Europe. Mike’s status level on the VMware forum is Virtuoso. He brings you up-to-date about the VI-3 book and tells something about the release of ESX 3.1 and the new edition of Virtual Center. The photo is taken by Viktor van den Berg on his website you can find more TSX photo's.

This week I was studying on all the different ways you can create disaster recovery for an ESX3 server. First I looked at VCB, it wasn't a big success because it only works with a FC San and the restore is a bit clumsy. Further on I looked at esxRanger but found it a bit pricey because you have to upgrade to the Pro version since that is the only version that can talk to ESX3. Then my eye felt on a new beta product from VMware called VMware Converter 3.0. I downloaded and installed the software on my VC2 server and thought lets give it a try and discover the possibilities. To my great surprise there is a way to create a "Hot Clone" from a running VM with no downtime. After that I did the restore and everything went perfect. The only disadvantage is that I was unable to find a way to schedule a job.