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VIDEO: Using the free vSphere Mini-Monitor

David Davis — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:32:29 +0000

Nick from Nickapedia.com (or @lynxbat on Twiter) created an awesome free tool called the vSphere Mini-Monitor. This tool runs in your Windows tray and alerts you, in a variety of ways, about events that happen in your virtual infrastructure. Alert methods are a tray popup, via Twitter, via email, or through an RSS feed (that’s right, a Twitter tweet can be posted when an event happens in your vSphere infrastructure). Don’t worry, you can control what you get alerts for so that you aren’t barraged wth alerts. This tool is great for multi-admin environments where you have multiple VMware admins working on the infrastucture at the same time. Download the free vSphere Mini-Monitor here!

Note: make sure that you run the vSphere Mini-Monitor as administrator, as I demonstrate in the video.

VIDEO: What is Tek-Tools Virtual Profiler (vProfiler)?

David Davis — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:24:21 +0000

I was recently contacted by Tek-Tools and asked to checkout their Virtual Profiler management software for VMware vSphere. I admit, I hadn’t heard of Tek-Tools before but found out that they were owned by Solarwinds, an Austin, Texas company (my home state) so I thought that I would take a extra minute to check them out. As it turns out, their Virtual Profiler (vProfiler) application is part of a larger package of Profiler apps that manage and monitor things like storage, applications, physical servers, and backups. Still, you can use vProfiler on its own. I downloaded the 30 day trial of vProfiler and found it very easy to install. In the video below, I show you what vProfiler manages, monitors, and alerts on and how it can help you to manage your virtual infrastructure.

To try out vProfiler for yourself, visit the Tek-Tools vProfiler 30 day eval webpage.

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: vStorage APIs for Data Protection and Avamar 5

David Davis — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:08:56 +0000

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

VIDEO: Using VMware ESX Performance Charts

David Davis — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:05:48 +0000

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

VIDEO: What is VMware vCloud Express and how can it help you?

David Davis — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00:15 +0000

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

VIDEO: Installing the vSphere Client in Windows 7

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

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!

Learn how to configure VMware ESX Server Alarms

David Davis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:12:09 +0000

In my new VirtualizationAdmin.com article, I cover how to configure VMware ESX Server Alarms properly. For example, the difference between defined alarms and triggered alarms, and how alarms work in the vSphere heirarchy.

Read the full artile at- Learn how to configure VMware ESX Server Alarms