In this video, TechTarget editorial director Jan Stafford interviews virtualization expert David Davis about VMware’s new high availability tool vLockstep. Davis gave a step-by-step tutorial on how to use vLockstep at the recent TechTarget Data Center Decisions 2008 Conference in Chicago.
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High Availability
Video: David Davis covering vLockstep from Data Center Decisions Conference, October 2008
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Video: VMware posts video on how Hyper-V’s quick migration fails
VMware was nice enough to demonstrate to us VMware users why we use VMware - because Hyper-V’s quick migration doesn’t stack up to VMotion. Watch this official VMware video to learn more…
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Video: Demonstration of VMHA during an uplanned outage
In this video, Scott Hansen of the DellTechCenter demonstrates exactly how VMware High Availability (VMHA) kicks in to prevent downtime in the event of an uplanned outage. My favoriite part is when they actually pull the blade server from the rack to make the server go down.
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Video: Learn how you can replicate VMs to another site with Double-Take
In this video by a Double-Take product manager, he explains how you can use Double-Take to replicate ESX Server virtual guests from one data center to another. He does a great job of detailing this out on a whiteboard.
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Video- How to enable High Availablity (HA) with VMware Server
In this video, created by InformedCIO, you are shown how to take the free VMware Server and configure High Availability (HA) with it. Essentially, what Paul Shearer demonstrates is how to use Microsoft Clustering Services (MSCS) with the free VMware Server to “fail over” a virtual guest OS to another Windows cluster node. This isn’t really automatic clustering but, with some scripting, it could be configured as such.
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David Davis (CCIE #9369, VCP, CISSP, MCSE) has been in the IT industry for 15+ years. He has authored over 300 articles, 6 video training courses, and co-authored one book. Learn about David's certifications, video courses, and where you can find his content on our 