Archive for the ‘VMware’ Category

This is the second video in the vSphere4 series, we’ll install the complete set of the vCenter4 components and use a remote SQL server for hosting the vCenter Server & Update Manager DBs. The installation is fairly easy and straight forward, but it has a couple of interesting new features/enhancements.

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It’s fast, it’s wild, and it’s out of NDA.
I’m furious, I’m excited and I’m off the hook.

If you are a VMware guru, the first few episodes in this series are not meant for you. You would probably be interested when we reach the level of configuring things like the Cisco Nexsus1000v, create host-profiles, or do some FT magic. Between now and then, it’s all for the newbies coming to our wonderful virtual world, and have no clue where to start and what platform they should adopt.

I’ve been willing to do a similar series in VI3 for quite some time, and start from the basics all the way to advanced configurations, but now that the vS4 is out, well, almost, I said why not, it’s a learning journey for me before anyone else.

You have to be patient with me however, the video recording is fairly easy, but the editing and production is quite hard and time consuming to present in this format. If you have any feedback, corrections or anything that can help improve these videos, please don’t hesitate to drop a comment or an email.

What are we waiting for? Let’s do this:

This is not another article about running Exchange on VMware, well, it’s kind-of, it’s about running Exchange 2007 internally at VMware, the company!

VMware has been releasing lately quite fascinating information about their internal IT operations and infrastructure, one of which just came out today from the incredibly useful VIOPS website. It’s a complete and fine whitepaper VMware released to illustrate how Exchange 2007 has been virtualized and deployed internal at VMware as mentioned above. The most interesting part, for me at least, is that VMware’s infrastructure looks very much like the current infrastructure I work in right now, except that it’s larger in terms of users and servers. I can see that many of the challenges I face right now in my environment, look pretty much similar to the ones pointed out by VMware’s CIO, Tayloe Stansbury, in the last VMworld Europe 2009 session, including both the ERP and Exchange stacks.

That’s enough of a talk today, I will leave you to this beautiful WP to go through, and I really urge you to follow this great VIOPS documents that pop out from time to time with the very detailed and technical information that we all love to read.

The Link once again: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/solutions/08Q4_VM_Exchange_Server_2007_VI3_WP.pdf

• Saves enough energy to power Denmark for 10 days.
• Frees up enough storage to host 50 times the current volume of photos on Facebook.
• Offers 4 times more memory per virtual machine.
• Handles 8,9000 transaction per second in a virtual machine.
• Handles 3 times eBay’s daily traffic on a single server.
• Supports 4 times more operating systems than the competition.

Want to know more? Register online at: http://www.vmware.com/landing_pages/nextgen.html

VMware Goes Mobile!

You probably heard the news, and seen the nice preview from VMware, but here we will take it from the scratch to show you how easy and fast you can have the vCMA up & running in your VI3/vSphere4 environments. I’ve published few days back a similar videos for Rove’s Mobile Admin, and I believe that both of them complement each other, for my case I would defiantly have them both on my mobile, in fact I’m seriously thinking now to start developing some light applications on BlackBerry to achieve similar results for traditional tasks that require a Laptop & Internet connection. I really miss the good old days where I didn’t do anything except coding.

So what we are going to explore in this video is the installation of the virtual appliance, to be followed soon with another one for the vCMA usage on your smart-phone.

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