When we were playing around with Site Recovery Manager last week we had the opportunity to ask a bunch of questions to Lee Dilworth. Lee is a Specialist System Engineer for Site Recovery Manager. During the discussion Lee told us about a document that Horst Mundt, also a VMware employee, wrote about using trusted certificates. We received the document via email [...]
Just noticed the following press release:”VMware Announces Speaker and Exhibitor Lineups for VMworld Europe 2009“. Europe’s Largest Virtualization Event Garners Broad Industry Support From Leading IT Vendors FRIMLEY, England & PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 14, 2009–VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that nine of the IT industry’s leading vendors have confirmed [...]
I dropped the news about the VMware Virtualization Professional Program a couple of weeks ago. It was supposedly to be opened up today for voting. Unfortunately it has been postponed atleast 18 hours. But John Troyer just announced the official name VMware vExpert. Wouldn’t you want to become a vExpert!?!
Most of you are familiar with the VMTN Podcasts by now which are hosted by VMware’s John Troyer. One of the regulars of the VMTN podcast, Edward Haletky (also known as Texiwill on VMTN and Twitter), formed a panel of experts on Security and will start a new podcast: The Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast. Those who listen to the [...]
I was just troubleshooting a problem with permissions and roles at a customer site within vCenter. For some weird reason we could not create a VM. I hardly ever use this functionality and if I do it’s mostly on a “Hosts & Clusters” level. This customer wanted to set permissions on a “HA-DRS” Cluster level. Each cluster will be administered [...]
When reading several SRM docs I was wondering if Microsoft Clustering was supported or not. I knew that in version 1.0 it wasn’t supported. When reading the Release Notes I noticed the following: Full Support for RDM devices SRM now provides full support for virtual machines that use raw disk mapping (RDM) devices. This enables support of several new configurations, [...]
I’ve been playing around with Site Recovery Manager these last couple of days. Installing it was really easy and same goes for the basic configuration. I already wrote a blog about this topic a month ago or so but now I’ve experienced it myself. Most of the time during a Site Recover Manager project will be spent during the Plan [...]
