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How can the free vWire OpsCheck help with your VMotion Configuration?

David Davis — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:04:50 +0000

My latest article covers the the free vWire OpsCheck tool. With this tool, you can verify that your VMotion configuration is correct. Without that verification, you could attempt a VMotion and it could fail. Read the full article and learn where to download it at:

How can the free vWire OpsCheck help with your VMotion Configuration?

What do you get with Train Signal’s VMware ESX computer training course?

David Davis — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:49:13 +0000

There are a lot of ways to learn VMware ESX & Virtual Infrastructure – books, classroom, video, or just trial and error. In my opinion, video training is one of the best options because you can learn at your own pace, its cost effective, you can review it as often as you want, you can learn on the go (with iPod/iPhone/MP3 training), and its the most fun!

If you aren’t familiar with Train Signal, they are the global leader in computer training for IT Professionals. Their VMware training course covers not only ESX/ESXi 3.5 but also the entire Virtual Infrastructure Suite.

Learn what Train Signal’s VMware ESX video training offers you in this new video:

Click here to watch a sample video or to order your very own VMware ESX Server training course!

How to Configure VMware High Availability (VMHA)

David Davis — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:22:18 +0000

In my latest article at VirtualizationAdmin.com, I show you, step by step, how to configure VMware’s High Availability (VMHA). Make configuring VMHA easy by following the article at How to Configure VMware High Availability (VMHA)

Video: David Davis covering vLockstep from Data Center Decisions Conference, October 2008

David Davis — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:37:30 +0000

In this video, TechTarget editorial director Jan Stafford interviews virtualization expert David Davis about VMware’s new high availability tool vLockstep. Davis gave a step-by-step tutorial on how to use vLockstep at the recent TechTarget Data Center Decisions 2008 Conference in Chicago.

Video: VMware posts video on how Hyper-V’s quick migration fails

David Davis — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:07:32 +0000

VMware was nice enough to demonstrate to us VMware users why we use VMware – because Hyper-V’s quick migration doesn’t stack up to VMotion. Watch this official VMware video to learn more…

Video: Demonstration of VMHA during an uplanned outage

David Davis — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:18:15 +0000

In this video, Scott Hansen of the DellTechCenter demonstrates exactly how VMware High Availability (VMHA) kicks in to prevent downtime in the event of an uplanned outage. My favoriite part is when they actually pull the blade server from the rack to make the server go down.

Video: Learn how you can replicate VMs to another site with Double-Take

David Davis — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:05:59 +0000

In this video by a Double-Take product manager, he explains how you can use Double-Take to replicate ESX Server virtual guests from one data center to another. He does a great job of detailing this out on a whiteboard.

Video- How to enable High Availablity (HA) with VMware Server

David Davis — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:39:40 +0000

In this video, created by InformedCIO, you are shown how to take the free VMware Server and configure High Availability (HA) with it. Essentially, what Paul Shearer demonstrates is how to use Microsoft Clustering Services (MSCS) with the free VMware Server to “fail over” a virtual guest OS to another Windows cluster node. This isn’t really automatic clustering but, with some scripting, it could be configured as such.