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VMware vRam with Veeam Surebackup™
Aug 17th
Lately I got some questions on how the new vSphere™ 5 pricing is going to work for Veeam Surebackup™. As probably known by most people that have any interest in the VMware vSphere products, the license for the next generation vSphere has changed a little bit. The software is not only licensed by the
Visualize VMware Service Levels within Operations Manager 2012
Aug 10th
Earlier Henk posted a nice article with regards to the Veeam nworks Management pack for System Center Operations Manager. Time to take a sneak preview of the upcoming possibilities with Operations Manager 2012 and nworks. With System Center Operations Manager 2012 and the nworks management pack it will possible to visualize your VMware Service
Monitoring VMware with System Center Operations Manager
Jul 28th
If you are looking for an Enterprise Monitoring Solution for your VMware environment , make sure you watch this video about Best Practices for Monitoring VMware with System Center Operations Manager. And request an evaluation key here to find out for yourself. This is by far the most scalable and advanced monitoring solution for VMware
Virtualisation youtube channels
Jul 26th
We all know (and love) the community around VMWare. A great resource for sure are also the Youtube channels! check: VMWare’s TV channel on youtube (with over 200 video’s and growing!) And VMWareKB TV with a lot of tips and tricks. Also usesfull a playlist for vSphere especially. But also my employee Veeam Software has
Free Pass to VMworld 2011 Las Vegas
Jul 21st
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
VMware trainings
Jul 16th
It has been a while since my last blog-update. I have been on holiday with just my smart-phone so twittering goes OK (@vmhenk) but writing a blog on this smartphone was a bit hard. I also copied a trainsignal training on my daughters video player, and I was very impressed with the training quality! The
VMware (free) inventory tools…
Jul 6th
Sometimes it can be very handy to have a good overview of you current VMware ESX(i) environment. Especially if you are planning a major update or change to you enviorment. Here are two (free) tools you can use: VMware LABS InventorySnapshot (make sure you have Java 1.6.0_23 or higher running, and have VMware PowerCLI installed)
