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VIRTUMANIA Episode 13: Analyzing Citrix Cloud Synergy
May 27th, 2010 | 
Author: In the “lucky” thirteenth episode of VIRTUMANIA Rick, Marc, and I engage very special guest Chris Wolf in a interesting discussion about Citrix XenServer and the recent cloud announcements from the Synergy 2010 Conference. The following is the podcast summary: VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 13 – Analyzing Citrix Cloud Synergy. Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC and [...]
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Tags: citrix, citrix synergy, citrixsynergy, infosmack, podcast, virtualization, virtumania, vmetc.com | 
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VIRTUMANIA Episode 2: Virtulization Makes DR Easy
The VIRTUMANIA continues with Episode 2! Rick Vanover joins Marc and I again along with very special guest Jason Boche, the Virtualization Evangelist, for a recorded discussion about DR options in virtualized environments. The following is the podcast summary: VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 2 – Virtulization Makes DR Easy. Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC and Marc [...]
Posted in events, virtualization, virtumania, vmetc.com |
Tags: backup, disaster recovery, dr, infosmack, podcast, virtualization, virtumania, vmetc.com |
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Simply Automating Virtual Machine IP Addressing For Disaster Recovery Sites (without scripting)
If you are looking at various options to automate virtual machine (VM) ip address reconfiguration when failing over virtual machines to a disaster recovery (DR) site, this post explains an option so simple it is beautiful. To give full credit, the Vizioncore vReplicator 2.5 Best Practices document enlightened me to the strategy of using a [...]
Posted in dr, esx, fail over, how to, vSphere, vizioncore, vmware |
Tags: dr, esx, fail over, how to, replication, virtualization, vizioncore, vmware, vreplicator |
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Reasons For Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure
A lot of companies are using NFS as the preferred protocol to shared storage for VMware Virtual Infrastructure. In my personal experience, The administrative options and convenience of NFS is unmatched, and the virtual machine (VM) performance is surprising. For example, I recently helped migrate a company from ESX 2.X to new a installation of [...]
Posted in storage, vi3, vmware |
Tags: netapp, NFS, storage, vi3, virtualization, vmware |
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Implementing VMware SRM: Pay Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain
Now that I’ve sat the VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) class, done the labs, and had some design and implementation time with the product I am reminded of a scene from the movie The Wizard of Oz. “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” is a famous line from the movie which comes [...]
Posted in fail over, gestaltit, srm, vmware |
Tags: disaster recovery, disasterrecovery, site recovery manager, srm |
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VMware Site Recovery Manager – links, lessons, and labs
This post is a collection of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) links that have been building up as various notes, to dos, and draft posts collecting dust for VM /ETC. I’m including links to popular blog posts describing how to set up “in a box” demo lab environments for SRM, links to a couple free [...]
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Tags: disaster recovery, disasterrecovery, esx, site recovery manager, srm, virtualization, vmware, vmworld2008 |
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Domain Controllers – to P2V or not to P2V
It’s good to see other administrators discussing whether or not to P2V domain controllers, and even better to see that others are recommending the same as I did in my recent post Small business P2V migrations. VMware Communities: VMWare esx 3.5& Windows Server 2003 … is a forum discussion where this topic is discussed in [...]
