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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.

VMware commericials (like Geico) “saves a ton of money in my infrastructure”

David Davis — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:36:49 +0000

Over at VMware’s SMB website, they have produces some very funny promotional videos for VMware. These videos remind me a lot of those Geico commercials where they say that they “saved a ton of money on their car insurance”. However, in these videos, the VMware customers talk about how they “saves a ton of money in my infrastructure”. The cool thing is that they videos are entertaining – like a Geico commercial or those apple vs. Microsoft commercials. Check them out and be prepared to smile!

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.

Learn how to integrate VMware ESX Server with Dell OpenManage

David Davis — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:26:40 +0000

Mark Clifton from Dell’s Executive Briefing Center talks about how to intergrate Dell OpenManage with VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure to create a resilient environment against hardware failures.