VMGuru.nl – I choose (a virtual) life!

VMware uses the name vSphere for their Virtualisation Infrastructure product also known as ESX. Here in Cannes in the hands on labs I have used the new interface and some of its nifty features. You have to get used to the new interface, but when you are used to it it works nicely and you can find your way around quickly. Did you have to search for some deep hidden options in the VI3 suite, here with the new look and feel around vSphere its almost effortless.

Yesterday I tried out the VMware vCenter Data Recovery Appliance in a hands on lab. It’s a disk-based backup and recovery solution that enables quick, simple and complete data protection for virtual machines. I didn’t have to load an agent on the virtual machines since vCenter Data Recovery has no knowledge of the guest operating system itself. After selecting a LUN as a destination for the backups, I marked some running virtual machines to be back upped.

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Although I wasn’t able to join the VMGuru team to Cannes I can still blog about newly released products from VMware.

One of those newly released products is the 4th update for VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 containing:

• Customization support for Windows 2008 server VM’s
• Performance overview charts which gives the system administrator a overview of CPU, memory, hardisk and network usage in a single chart.

More information can be found here.

One of the problems that most people have with virtualizing vCenter is that they don’t know where the vCenter VM is when there are problems.

There’s a fairly easy way to counter this problem.

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