starting tips for the virtual world
VMware ESXi 3.x
Veeam bare-metal restore and backup the backup server
Oct 10th
There are always a lot of different opinions on what is “easy” and or quick restore from a backup when you need it. Some backup solutions include special bare-metal restore modules (see Wikipedia here) to recovers a complete system from scratch this way. The biggest challenge for bare-metal recovery is mostly how to recover a
How to integrate Veeam Reporter with Microsoft SharePoint
Sep 20th
Veeam Reporter, part of the Veeam ONE suite, provides you a complete visibility of your virtual environment. Veeam Reporter discovers, documents and analyzes the entire virtual infrastructure. It maintains a complete history of all objects, settings and changes and it trends performance and utilization. So you can really understand your virtual infrastructure—past, present and future.
connect to multiple vSphere host simultaneously (free)
Jul 20th
To connect to multiple VMware vSphere Hosts simultaneously the standard answer is to use the (licensed) VMware vCenter. But for number of reasons (especially in smaller environments) this is not always the option. Here are two mature alternatives (for free) you can use: VMWare LABS Boomerang VMware Boomerang is a simple VMware client Windows
Migrating to ESXi
May 24th
By now most people working with VMware clearly know that they better can move to ESXi if they want to be able to use the latest and greatest VMware technology. ESXi is the “console-less” brother of ESX with just the small foot-print hypervisor (vSphere 4.1 is the latest release to support both the ESX and
PowerCLI power
Apr 22nd
Here a nice tweet that I had to post: Convert all VM names to lowercase with this simple one liner: Get-VM | Foreach { $_ | Set-VM -Name ($_.Name).tolower()} also must read on VMware PowerCLI is: VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration by Luc Dekens, Alan Renouf, Glenn Sizemore, Arnim van Lieshout, Jonathan Medd
