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Protecting Your VMware Fusion VMs with Time Machine

After helping someone recover data from a corrupt virtual machine last night I thought this would be informative to many people.  A lot of us Mac users still have to run WIndows for one reason or another.  If you do I highly suggest you look at VMware’s Fusion that allows you to run it as [...]

Site Recovery Manager Demonstration Video

Recently I have set up a SRM environment in a virtual lab for testing and performing demos.  I took the opportunity to create a video giving an overview of Site Recovery Manager.  The video walks through a normal configuration and then a test failover.  It’s a simple environment but will give someone a complete picture [...]

Disabling MAC Address Checking in VMWare

Some software still ties license keys to MAC addresses.  VMWare, by default, only allows a virtual machine to use a MAC address in their assigned range.  So what do you do when you virtualize a system and use the old MAC address?  You get a “XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is not an allowed static Ethernet address” error message [...]