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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

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

One of my students pointed me to a website with a real cheap NFS server, besides that it only consumes around 20 watts.

The Grab’n’GO Media Store is a powerful double bay HDD SATA solution for sharing & store media content like music, photos and videos at home or at the office. The built in UPnP AV media server offers easy access to all your files through compatible media players (like the Grab’n’GO wireless media player) and stream media without using a PC. Besides your media backup, it’s a full function NAS server with 500 MHz CPU and built-in FTP server for file access via Internet and access-right management features to give users different read and/or write permission in the (Gigabit) network. To guarantee optimal functionality, the CH3SNAS can be configured as Standard, JBOD, RAID 0 and RAID 1, so it’s up to you to set your priority to safety, flexibility or speed.

This is a little site about DNS-323 and Conceptronic CH3SNAS which is low-end 2 SATA Drive Bay network-attached storage (NAS) with RAID0/RAID1/JBOD feature.

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The Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) is an infrastructure that provides fast and efficient communication between a virtual machine and the host operating system and between two or more virtual machines on the same host. The VMCI SDK facilitates development of applications that use the VMCI infrastructure.

The VMCI SDK has the following components:

• A datagram API to exchange small messages
• A shared memory API to share data
• An access control API to control what resources a virtual machine can access
• A discovery service for publishing and retrieving resources

Without VMCI, virtual machines communicate with the host using the network layer. Using the network layer adds overhead to the communication. With VMCI communication overhead is minimal and different tasks that require that communication can be optimized.

Easgs has created a video tutorial about how to install VMware 6.5 Workstation in OpenSuse 11.0, the video is available here.

This video shows how to install Vmware 6.5 workstation with the bundle file in OpenSuse 11.0, to accomplish this you must install first the following packages: binutils, gcc, gcc-c++, kernel-source and make and after that execute the command “sh VMware-Workstation-6.5.0-118166.i386.bundle” as root, all this is show in the video, it is assumed that you have inserted the opensuse 11.0 DVD and the Vmware installation file is located at your home directory.

Steve Ballmer today announced the final release and availability of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 in front of a crowd of 700 IT professionals during a TechNet Server and Tools event keynote address in London. To further assist customers with the adoption and deployment of Microsoft virtualization solutions, Microsoft announced a new offering of specialized assessment and implementation services available from the Microsoft Services organization that help customers use server virtualization, and separate new training and certifications from Microsoft Learning for IT Professionals.

The Design Exam for the VMware Certified Design Expert will be available to those who have passed the Enterprise Administration Exam will be available October 1st. For the Design Exam Blueprint, please click here.

Calling all aspiring virtual infrastructure architects! If you have completed VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure or have equivalent experience, and want to build your VMware design skills, enroll now in the new VMware Infrastructure: Design course.

This hands-on training course explores how to design VMware Infrastructure 3 architectures with a focus on manageability, availability, and scalability. Objectives: At the end of the course, you should understand the principles involved in designing VMware Infrastructure 3 architectures:

•  Implementing best practices and evaluating design considerations to meet business needs
•  Distributing resources across ESX clusters automatically and ensuring high availability
•  Architecting remote and branch offices
•  Designing to support Microsoft Active Directory, SQL Server, and Exchange Server

It look like VMware Server 2.0 is available for download.

http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

VMware Server 2
Version 2.0.0 | 116503 - 09/23/08 575 MB EXE image
VMware Server 2 for Windows Operating Systems. A master installer file containing all Windows components of VMware Server.

VMware Server provides a superior introductory experience to virtualization with a stable, easy-to-use hosted virtualization platform that supports a broad range of operating systems and hardware. This next-generation version introduces a new intuitive Web-based management interface to provide a consistent management
experience for Windows® and Linux users. VMware Server allows quick provisioning of virtual machines by supporting over 30 flavors of guest operating systems, including Windows Server® 2008, Windows Vista and various Linux distributions. Using proven and stable technology, VMware Server leverages the built-in virtualization capabilities in the latest generation server hardware to deliver higher performance.