VIDEO: My Home VMware vSphere Lab

by David Davis on January 20, 2010

Here is a video detailing my home VMware vSphere lab including servers and storage…

Note: I forgot to mention in the video, the Intel Quad Q6600 shown in the video DOES run vSphere 4 as well so it is a compatible whitebox. It uses the MSI7450 BIOS.

Feel free to embed this video in your blog! You can get the code to do that by pressing the embed button on the video!

For more information on home labs and whitebox servers, listen to the VMware community roundtable episode that covers this topic.

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VIDEO: Jumpstart ESXi and P2V with VMware GO

by David Davis on December 3, 2009

I just released a new video to add to my vSphere video training course. This video covers VMware’s GO – a free product that provides SMBs the ability to download ESXi, install it, configure it, create new VMs, perform P2V, download VMs, and manage ESXi servers and VMs once up and running. GO is completely web-based, once you have watched my video, you can try out VMware GO for yourself!

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VIDEO: vStorage APIs for Data Protection and Avamar 5

by David Davis on November 30, 2009

Chad Sakac of EMC posted a very detailed post over at his blog covering EMC’s Avamar 5 and how it uses the VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection. I love the detail of his post and the video is great too.

I have embedded the video below and I encourage you to read the full blog post over at: Virtual Geek — vStorage APIs for Data Protection and Avamar 5

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VIDEO: Using VMware ESX Performance Charts

by David Davis on November 30, 2009

Here is my new video blog post over at VirtualizationAdmin.com covering how to use VMware ESX Server Performance charting…

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Checkout my latest video from VirtualizationAdmin.com and learn what vCloud Express is all about and how it can help you!

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VIDEO: Installing the vSphere Client in Windows 7

by David Davis on November 19, 2009

While the vSphere Client does install fine in Windows 7, it is when you attempt to connect to your vCenter Server that you discover there is a problem. VMware doesn’t officially support the vSphere Client under Windows 7 but there is a workaround to make it work.

In this video, I cover how to get the vSphere Client working in Windows 7, step by step.

You can download the special system.dll file that is needed here.


How To Install VMware vSphere Client in Windows 7 from Train Signal. Your leader in Computer Training

Special thanks to those who have posted on this topic before me as I couldn’t have created this video without your help!

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