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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 chapters from a SRM book, and links to multiple VMworld 2008 SRM presentations for those readers that did not get attend either VMworld Europe or VMworld in Las Vegas this year. Finally, at the end of this post I am also including the VMworld 2008 Installing Configuring and Troubleshooting SRM lab materials.

Be sure to follow all links to read the original content, but I am briefly quoting from each source to provide some descriptions.

New SRM posts and links seem to be popping up daily. If you have a great SRM link please leave it in the comments for all to find.

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I know I am a little late getting these posted, but better late than never. Not all shots are the best of quality, but they still provide a good feel of my week at VMworld 2008. My photos include shots of the hotels while walking the Las Vegas strip to and from the Venetian, pics of Paris where I stayed, photos from the conference and keynotes, and shots of The Freemont Street Experience.

After the photo album is a video of the Tribute to Queen multimedia experience I caught on the world’s largest big screen on Freemont Street. The 6 minute video is an amazing display of Queen videos and images to the soundtrack of “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions”.

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I missed Mike DiPetrillo’s Deploying VMware in a Microsoft Shop session at VMworld 2008, but Mike apparently provided a PowerShell example of automating the migration of an Ubuntu VM between ESX hosts without using VMotion. This script would be a great alternative to a cold migration for VI Foundation customers. Mike has now posted his script and a video of a demo on his blog.

From the VMware Field: Mike D’s Virtualization Blog: Quick Migration for VMware – The Power of PowerShell shows off the script and flirts with comparing this ability to the Microsoft Hyper-V Quick Migration feature.

“One of the things that was also brought up over and over again in the debate was the fact that Quick Migration was free and came with Hyper-V since it was based on Microsoft Clustering whereas VMware VMotion was only available in the most expensive Enterprise SKU of VMware Infrastructure. So there it was – I need to create Quick Migration for the lower priced and free VMware solutions. I went off, built my little script, and showed it off at VMworld. There was a GREAT response to it so I’m posting it here for others to use or improve upon however you see fit.

The script works just like Microsoft Quick Migration – the virtual disk is stored on shared storage, the VM is suspended to disk, and the VM is then resumed on the destination.”

Mike provides the various requirements and the links later in his post.

To set this up in your environment you’ll need a few things:

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Eric Seibert has listed everything that happened at VMworld 2008 on one web page. He has created an incredible collection of links on his VMware-land.com site that covers the videos, photos, news, announcements, live blogging, and almost anything else that occured at the world’s largest virtualization conference in Las Vegas, NV. Go to Eric’s VMworld 2008 Links Page to re-live the event from the eyes, ears, cameras, and keyboards of many different attendees.

There are several links to VMworld 2008 content here on VM /ETC. Thanks Eric!

You may notice some changes here at VM /ETC. I’ve switched to a new theme and modified the colors slightly. Don’t worry, the site is still primarily UGLY green.

After talking to a few people at VMworld and considering my previous theme’s ongoing issues with the world’s most popular browser (IE 7), I decided to switch. I’ll be cleaning it up a little more over the next few days, but this is the new look and feel for VM /ETC. Based on my testing all browsers work properly now, but if you find any issues please let me know.

I hope you like the new look! As always, thanks for reading vmetc.com.

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Although it’s VMware’s conference, every year I’ve attended Microsoft (and various other virtualization competitors) has always had a booth in the Solutions Exchange and/or presented their own session. VMworld 2008 was no exception. In fact, this year Microsoft’s presence was a little more noticeable than in the past. Starting with a marketing stunt of handing out $1 casino chips with anti VMware propaganda on Day 1, continuing throughout the conference with activities in the Solutions Exchange at their booth, and finally ending the week with their own session, Microsoft did their best to grab the attention of the attendees.

On Thursday 9.18 at 2:00 pm I sat in on Microsoft’s Virtualization session hosted by David Greshler and Edwin Yuen. The presentation was informative and entertaining with David explaining Microsoft’s server and desktop virtualization products and Edwin providing some great demos of Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. This post is a summary of my notes along with numerous links to related videos, blogs, and sites.

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I attended this VMworld 2008 session on Wednesday 09.18 at 9:00 AM. The presenter was Sunder Parameswaran who is a Senior Product Manager at Symantec. The session was about using Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) in VMware virtual infrastructure (VI) to overcome application high availability and disaster recovery (DR) challenges.

My main interest in this session was on the topic of Geo Clustering with VCS. Also known as Metro Clustering, this is the ability to have one node of the cluster at your primary data center location and the second node at a separate physical location like a disaster recovery site.

Sunder began by outlining various VI challenges.

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