Eric Sloof

Extend the OS disk the easy way (ExtPart.exe). The ExtPart utility provides support for online volume expansion of NTFS formatted basic disks. Before installing ExtPart and extending a volume, ensure that you have a working backup of your operating system. It's only 40Kb and free :-)

extpart [volume size]
volume - the volume to extend. e.g. f:, g:, etc (only basic volumes)
size - the size in megabytes by which to extend the volume.

Example:
To extend the g: volume by 1 GB (1024 MB) use the following command:
extpart g: 1024

Screenshot’s and a Dutch 'how to' are available at Arne Fokkema’s ICT-Freak.

With VMware Update Manager, you can automate patch management and eliminate manual tracking and patching of VMware ESX hosts and virtual machines. VMware Update Manager scans the state of the physical VMware ESX hosts, as well as select guest operating systems, compares them with baselines set by the administrator and then applies updates and patches to enforce compliance to mandated patch standards. This capability dramatically simplifies the patch management process while helping you protect your data center against bugs and security vulnerabilities.

Vmwarevirtualizationtraining.com is offering more than 100 Interview Questions with Answers in Storage & VMware Virtualization. Think about this as if they collected interview questions from real interviews attended by their website readers and put it in a document. That helps you understand what are the expectations of the interviewers. It’s like you have a ready list of probable questions , you can get an idea of what to expect if you are going to face an interview soon. But VMware Virtualization is a vast technology & chances are there are a ton of possibilities of different interview questions. Its not an automated exam hence this is not a cheat sheet , this is not a exam dump. This is just questions collected from people’s experiences of attending real VMware job openings.

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 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.