The readers of Virtualization Magazine have voted for the 2012 Reader’s Choice awards and I am proud to announce that TrainSignal’s video training has been selected at the WINNER of the BEST Virtualization training, even beating out classroom training. Readers said that TrainSignal’s virtualization training was the best value, offered a wide variety of topics, and provided a line up of top instructors.

BIG THANK YOU to all those who voted for us and THANK YOU to our values customers!

Stay tuned for more virtualization training from TrainSignal including courses like SRM 5, View 5, vSphere Advanced Networking, Cisco Nexus 1000V, Cisco UCS, and vCloud Director. 2012 is going to be a great year!

Here’s a scan of page 31, where we come out on top!

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In 1st quarter 2012, TrainSignal will be releasing a new video training course by VCDX Jason Nash (@TheJasonNash) of Varrow, Inc (@VarrowInc) entitled Implementing Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). The video below is part of the live portion available in the course – a whole new way to learn Cisco from TrainSignal.

Jason Nash has done an amazing job on this course, sharing his real-world knowledge in Cisco and VMware enterprise computing. Special thanks to the great people from Varrow for letting us borrow Jason and his UCS rack to create this video!

To sign up for our newsletter and be alerted when the new Cisco UCS course is available, click here.

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In this video, I show you how to download the free vCloud Connector, deploy the administrative virtual appliance, deploy a vCloud Connector node, use the vCloud Connector plugin, and the vCloud connector website to administer your private virtual infrastructure, private cloud, or public cloud.

Stay tuned for my next video in this series on Using the vCloud Connector to create a hybrid cloud and move a virtual machine from your internal vSphere infrastructure to a public vCloud Datacenter.

For more information, visit vCloud.VMware.com

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In this video demo from Elias Khnaser, he shows you how to manipulate AutoDeploy to configure any number of ESXi servers using the host profiles. Knowing how to use this new feature of vSphere 5 essentially allows you to deploy & configure a large virtual infrastructure, potentially containing hundreds of servers, in only a matter of hours. Besides that real-world application, if you are studying for the VCP5, this is one of the important topics that you should know.

This 8 minute video demo is part of a 1+ hour AutoDeploy video by Elias and video is part of the 16+ hour vSphere 5 video training course by Elias and David Davis, from TrainSignal.

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Veeam just announced their new Backup & Replication version 6 that supports both Hyper-V and vSphere. Recently, Veeam’s Doug Hazleman (@VMDoug), VP of Product Strategy and Anton Gostev (@gostev), Director of Product Management, did a webinar on the new version 6. I am lucky enough to be able to offer a portion of that webinar below. This video from the webinar covers how version 6 supports backup and replication of VMware vSphere hosts and Microsoft Hyper-V hosts, all from a single interface.

To see all 4 video segments from this new Veeam webinar, click here.

However, this new release not only offers multi-hypervisor support but a list of other features that include:

• Enterprise scalability – v6 introduces a new distributed architecture to simplify deployment and maintenance of remote office/branch office (ROBO) and large installations of Veeam Backup & Replication. This new architecture Provides multiple backup proxy servers (data movers) and backup repositories, which communicate directly with each other under the direction of a backup server. It dynamically assigns VMs to proxy servers, eliminating the need to babysit jobs and constantly tune job schedules to achieve desired levels of job concurrency. It uses intelligent load balancing that accounts for virtual environment specifics and current load on the backup infrastructure. The new architecture turns your Veeam Backup & Replication installation into a fully self-tuning business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) system that automatically adapts to your ever-changing virtual environment.
• Advanced replication – With encapsulation, multi-tenancy and hardware independence, virtualization enables a unified approach to data protection, including affordable near-continuous data protection (near-CDP). Veeam lets you take advantage of this by combining backup and replication in a single, cohesive solution. v6 builds on Veeam’s unified approach to data protection with even faster replication—up to 10x faster whether you replicate locally or over a wide area network (WAN).
• 1-Click File Restore – v6 enhances Veeam’s existing Instant File-Level Recovery (IFLR) by reducing the number of steps from 10 to 1. You can now restore Windows guest files back to their original location directly from file search results in the Veeam Enterprise Manager web UI. This new restore capability is secure and minimizes the possibility of operator error by not requiring administrators/help desk personnel to have permissions on backup files, hosts or VMs where files are being restored. They simply find the file and restore it to its original location with a single click of a button.

AND, at least 68 other additional features (too many to fit in this blog post). For more information on new features see What’s New in v6.

You can try out Veeam Backup & Replication 6 for 60 days, free. Download here.

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