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VIDEO: This Week in Virtualization with David Davis

David Davis — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:36:40 +0000

This week, I was the guest on a new weekly virtualization podcast called This Week in Virtualization. In this episode, we talked about the next version of vSphere and its features – to be released at an unspecified date. You can watch on a webpage or you can subscribe to an iTunes RSS feed and watch in iTunes or on your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV. Click on the video below to bring up the webpage to watch:

VIDEO: My Home VMware vSphere Lab

David Davis — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:56:08 +0000

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.

VIDEO: Jumpstart ESXi and P2V with VMware GO

David Davis — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:27:51 +0000

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!

VIDEO: Installing the vSphere Client in Windows 7

David Davis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:46:36 +0000

UPDATE: IF YOU WILL USE THE LATEST VERSION OF THE VSPHERE CLIENT (vSphere 4.0 Update 1 or later), THESE INSTRUCTIONS NO LONGER APPLY.

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!

Running VMware ESXi 4 / vSphere in VMware Workstation – VIDEO

David Davis — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:36:16 +0000

Here is a video sample from my upcoming VMware vSphere video training course. In this 18 minute video, you will learn how to run VMware ESXi version 4 / vSphere inside VMware Workstation. If you like the video please comment and feel free to use the embed code to embed this video on your blog!

VMWare CTO Stephen Herrod Demos vSphere dvSwitch at Interop

David Davis — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:49:07 +0000

In this CNET video, VMWare CTO Stephen Herrod Demos vSphere dvSwitch at Interop 2008 in Las Vegas. After Stephen, Rob Noth of VMWare demonstrates the Cisco command line – Great Video!