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I haven’t had a chance to play around with this yet but it looks like it could be a good option for smaller companies. The standard version is FREE and the full featured product is about $700.
TriLead VM Explorer article

This post is not intended to be a shameless plug. I just wanted you to see how cool Animoto is. Goto animoto.com and give it some pictures and text and choose the music you want to put in the video. Let Animoto do the rest. Awesome.
Sometimes you have to hold down the control key before you press the full screen button to cancel your popup blocker.

Finally the smoke has cleared for 2008 and I can get back to posting! It’s been a while since my last post and lots of fun stuff has been happening. We received our dual Celerra NS20s in Charlotte and they are set up.
We had some strange problems when we first started them up. The best [...]

Finally the smoke has cleared for 2008 and I can get back to posting!  It’s been a while since my last post and lots of fun stuff has been happening.  We received our dual Celerra NS20s in Charlotte and they are set up. 
We had some strange problems when we first started them up.  The best [...]

During the course of my experiences with Site Recovery Manager I came across some timeout issues relating to OS Heartbeat delays that make even a successful test recovery look down right error ridden. Specifically it is the portion of your recovery plan that checks for VMware tools heartbeat. This is a configurable value, and by [...]

I did a migration last week at a clients site from Windows 2003 Presentation Server 4.5, Provisioning Server 4.5 and Web Interface 4.6 to Windows 2008 XenApp 5, Provisioning Server 5.1a and Web Interface 5.
During the image build for Windows 2008 XenApp I had a few issue that were resolved by installing these 5 Windows [...]

http://www.vmware.com/resources/wp/view_reference_architecture_thanks.html
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Datacenter Power Primer
By Dan Weiss
12/22/2008
IT professionals frequently find themselves in situations where they need to have some core basic knowledge of electrical power for the datacenter they are in charge of managing.  This primer will attempt at giving the average IT systems administrator or engineer a base knowledge of electrical power and connectors.  The author [...]

This post will be the first of several where I discuss the different Rainfinity offerings from EMC.  In the effort of continuing their strategy of moving to a complete data management company EMC acquired Rainfinity in August of 2005.  Rainfinity was already well known as providing excellent products to help organizations manage their data.
The three [...]

First things first, if you are an EMC shop (or not, that’s cool you don’t have to be) and you aren’t using Recoverpoint you might as well be flying blind through the DR brume. This technology, in cahoots with SRM, makes ye failover and failback a dream specifically in regards to the storage prepatory piece. [...]

Interesting article about recession-proof technology bets for 2009. Cloud Computing and Virtualization make the list.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/15/technology/mehta_predictions.fortune/index.htm

Interesting article about recession-proof technology bets for 2009. Cloud Computing and Virtualization make the list. http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/15/technology/mehta_predictions.fortune/index.htm

Check out this nice diagram that Jason Boche put togther.
http://www.boche.net/blog/
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Posted in vmware Tagged: vmware

Proper Datastore design and VM placement upfront can save you and your predecessors from self induced product failure. What do I mean? Listen up…SRM, among other things gives you the luxury of failing over or testing failover for certain applications or VM’s within your environment. By creating protection groups that point to specific VM’s that [...]

A good post on SearchServerVirtualization.com
http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid94_gci1341932,00.html