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VMUG Israel March 2009

Today was our Israeli Quarterly VMUG in Tel-Aviv Lead by Ben Hagai. About 75 people there (the group is growing every time) Schedule was: Re-cap from VMWorld in Cannes Cisco Nexus 1000V ESX Storage …

  • VMUG
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • ESX
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vCenter on Linux - Beta

As was mentioned by Duncan Epping - the beta for Virtual Center on Linux is out. Comes an OVF package so it can be imported easily into all Vmware products. It is based on Centos using Just Enough …

  • Appliances
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • ESX
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vCenter Server Heartbeat - VMworld Europe

Well even though the announcement was only today at VMWorld Europe 2009, the cat was let out of the bag, (not by me..but here here and here) so I will provide a bit of what I learned about the product …

  • ESX
  • Heartbeat
  • vCenter
  • Virtualization
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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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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