Eric Sloof

Imagine being able to instantly identify capacity bottlenecks on hosts, clusters and resources pools. Currently, organizations are struggling with many VM lifecycle management issues such as controlling VM sprawl, identifying current and future capacity bottlenecks and maximizing existing VMware infrastructure. Learn best practices and effective strategies to help curb these problems in a one-hour educational workshop.

Veeam is pleased to inform you that the Veeam Backup for VMware Infrastructure 3 beta is now available for download. A groundbreaking disaster recovery solution for VMware Infrastructure 3 that combines backup and replication Veeam Backup is the first solution that combines backup and replication for fast recovery of your VMware environment. It is really two products in one: traditional backup and recovery for less-critical applications or virtual machines, and replication-based backup and recovery to meet high-availability requirements. With Veeam Backup you get both, and you can choose which method to use and when. In addition, both backup techniques integrate with VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB), giving you the option to use VCB for even faster backup and recovery when you need it most.

Features and Enhancements:

• Backup and Replication in one
• Integration with VCB technology
• VCB on-the-fly support
• Synthetic backup for faster recovery, eliminating the need for full backups
• File-level recovery for the most widely used file formats
• Single instance storage for reduced storage cost
• Multi-ESX management
• ESX to ESX direct copy
• Complete file management and Windows integration

VMware Customer Education is developing an instructor-led training course for customers who are building VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructures. The course offers skills training and hands-on experience on VMware Virtual Desktop Manager and related technologies. We are pleased to invite enrollments in the test delivery of this course.

Here is a preliminary course outline:

Module 1: VDI/VDM Overview
Module 2: Virtualizing Active Directory for VDM
Module 3: Group Policy Objects and Roaming Templates
Module 4: Remote Desktop Protocol
Module 5: Best Practices for XP and Vista Virtual Machines
Module 6: Installing VDM
Module 7: Using VDM Clients
Module 8: VDM Administration
Module 9: VDM Dynamic and Static Pools
Module 10: VDM Security Server
Module 11: VDM Load-Balancing and Multi-Server
Module 12: VDM Tunneled and Direct Connections
Module 13: VDM Security
Module 14: VDM Logs and Troubleshooting
Module 15: VMware Update Manager

EDU-DATASHEET-VDM-beta.pdf (84.5 K)

Elias Knaser created a real cool trailer for his upcoming ESX 3.5 CBT. We can expect this new version in March.  Elias' current focus is on Server Based Computing and Virtualization. He is currently the Sr. Network Engineer for Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL with a Citrix implementation serving 14000 customers. Prior to that, he was the Server Based Computing Architect for General Growth Properties, the second largest shopping mall owner and operator in the world. He co-authored many books including: "Citrix CCA MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 and 4.0 (Exams 223/256) (Exam Cram)" by Que Publishing, "MCSE Designing Security for a Windows Server 2003 Network: Exam 70-298 Study Guide and Dvd Training System", and "Citrix MetaFrame XP Including Feature Release 1" by Syngress Publishing.  He was the Citrix series trainer for a computer based training company and developed their Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 FR1 & FR2 training videos.  Elias is a Contributing Author at WindowsITPro Magazine, Techrepublic.com, Certcities.com, Cramsession.com, and Brianmadden.com.