Posts Tagged ‘Tutorials’

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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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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Here comes the second and last tutorial in the Rove Mobile Admin 4.2 series. In this video I used BlackBerry to demonstrate some administration tasks in the VI3 including:

• Exploring the VI environment (Datacenter, Cluster, ESX, VMs ..etc.)
• Analyzing the Events on an ESX host
• Power on VMs
• Searching for VMs.
• Edit VM settings (like memory & CPU)
• Manage VMs using the Mobile Admin WMI
• Connect and explore the SQL server hosting the vCenter’s DB
• Viewing the status of the vCenter’s services, and the ability to start, stop or restart them.

I actualy forgot one of the most important parts, which is the SSH access directly into the ESX servers, I may screenshot that later on, but for now I just wanted to point that it’s possible through the Mobile Admin.

Enough said, let’s get to it..

Here comes the second video in our SRM journey. In this tutorial we will setup the SAN using the Lefthand VSA between our two datacenters.
Some housekeeping:
- You can download a 30 days trial for the Leafthand VSA from this location.
- You can view the same video on Screencast.com or Vimeo.com
- You can view the previous video from this location.

Tutorial List:
01 – SRM Installation
02 – SAN Setup using LeftHand VSA
03 – SAN Replication
04 – Configuring the SRA and completing the SRM setup

VMware SRM – 02 SAN Setup using Lefthand VSA from Hany Michael on Vimeo

This is the first video tutorial in a series to come for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), one of the most interesting and efficient products from VMware. It’s my very first video in my blog also so please leave your comments and let me know your opinion. Don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS feed to be notified in time for future videos.

 Tutorial List:
01 – SRM Installation
02 – SAN Setup using LeftHand VSA
03 – SAN Replication
04 – Configuring the SRA and completing the SRM setup

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Installation from Hany Michael on Vimeo