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Hyper-V Technologies - Wrong Information

Well this is nothing new, we see this all the time, but today it really annoyed me. During a lecture I participated in today with a Microsoft Partner at Microsoft offices in Israel today, one of the …

  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Hyper-V
  • Windows
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Hyper-9 Has a new addition to their team

Hyper-9 is a company that is working on field of retrieving more detailed information from your Virtual Infrastructure. I have beta tested their product over the past month and have to say that it …

  • Virtualization
  • VMotion
  • Administration
  • VMware
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Debian 5.0 VMware Image

Duncan Epping posted on twitter a few days ago Debian now has a new version out, and of course in no time at all, Simon has released a VMware image of the OS. If you would like to receive the …

  • Virtualization
  • Appliances
  • VMware
  • ESX
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OPSCHECK is now live

Tripwire (or vWire) have released a new tool - OPSCHECK - that will check your VMotion configuration between your hosts. OpsCheck helps ensure your systems are configured to support VMware VMotion by …

  • VMotion
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • vCenter
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VNC Built-in Backdoor - Part 2

In continuation of my previous post about this issue with VNC and direct access to a vm through the service console. In my original findings, I stated that this was possible with both ESX3i and ESX …

  • Security
  • ESX3i
  • VMware
  • ESX
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vCenter Physical or Virtual?

Every now and again, this comes up. It did again 2 Days ago on Dave Lawrence’s Blog I still feel that in spite of all the benefits and extra redundancy you get with vCenter as a VM, it still …

  • Server
  • Virtualization
  • Administration
  • VMware
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The Future of Cluster Services

For those of you don’t already know, VMware have a new feature coming out in there next version. I am lucky enough to be part of the Beta group who is busy testing this. The feature is called …

  • Microsoft
  • Virtualization
  • Windows
  • Administration
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Now how do you like this - Built-in Backdoor

Firstly let’s start with how this came about. I was trying to allow permissions to a user to a certain VM on an ESX3i Server. This is a the free edition. There is no option to allocate …

  • Security
  • Virtualization
  • ESX3i
  • Administration
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So how do you like your feeds?

There are those who like to get updates immediately when something changes in a feed, there are those who like to get notified once a day (something like a daily digest idea from Yahoogroups) Well I …

  • Virtualization
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
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So when will we see the get the next version of ESX?

Rumors rumors……. This came up on SearchVMware (Hannah Drake - Associate Editor of SearchVMware.com) **The release of VMware Infrastructure 4 is slated for first half of this year. What …

  • Virtualization
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
  • ESX