http://vmwarevideos.com Your source for Great VMware Training! Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:27:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In my latest SearchVMware.com article, I show you, step by step, how to enable and configure SNMP in VMware ESX and ESXi Server. From there, I move on to demonstrating a few different applications that can be used to monitor your VMware ESX Servers using SNMP. Monitoring VMware ESX Servers ... http://vmwarevideos.com/learn-how-to-configure-and-monitor-vmware-esx-servers-with-snmp I recently attended the Dallas / Fort Worth Area VMware User Group (DFW VMUG) meeting. We had an amazing turnout of 75+ attendees. Dell presented their storage array technology and how it integrates into VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM). VMSight presented their performance management and reporting software for VDI. DFW ... http://vmwarevideos.com/dallas-vmware-user-group-vmug-update-3q-2008 Mike Laverick of RTFM Education has written the book (literally) on Site Recovery Manager (SRM). He did a book signing at VMworld and now his book is on sale at Lulu.com. You can buy the 300 page bible on SRM at- Administering VMware's Site Recovery Manager by Mike Laverick. If ... http://vmwarevideos.com/site-recovery-manager-book-and-free-webcast-with-mike-laverick Thanks to the generosity of the guys over at Hyper9, they have given me 10 exclusive invitations to hand out to VMwareVideos.com visitors. In case you haven't heard, Hyper9 is a very exciting new 3rd party tool for VMware ESX/VI. With Hyper9, you can much more quickly navigate your VMware ... http://vmwarevideos.com/get-an-exclusive-hyper9-beta-invite-from-vmwarevideoscom In this latest article by David Davis, VMware ESX video training author, he explains step by step how to use VMware Converter Enterprise to perform a P2V Conversion. Read the full article over at VirtualizationAdmin.com - Performing a P2V conversion to VMware ESX Server using VMware Converter Enterprise. http://vmwarevideos.com/performing-a-p2v-conversion-to-vmware-esx-server-using-vmware-converter-enterprise Andrew Kutz is most well known for writing THE SVMotion plugin. However, he has also written a number of other VMware plugins and sudo for windows. In this VMworld 2008 session, Andrew covers step by step, how to create VMware Infrastructure Plugins. If you are interested in creating a plug-in ... http://vmwarevideos.com/video-andrew-kutz-on-how-to-create-vmware-plug-ins I just love the idea of VMware's DPM! I mean, why not turn off the severs and save electricity when they aren't in use? This video does an excellent job of showing that DPM works - for real. Watch and see for yourself! [youtube]Nkv0fhu-m2k[/youtube] http://vmwarevideos.com/video-vmwares-distributed-power-management-dpm-in-action While at VMworld 2008, I was interviewed by John Troyer, VMware Communities Guru, about what was going on at the show. We discussed the "Best of VMworld" products judging that I did and the products I selected (Cisco Nexus and Vizioncore vOptimizer Pro). John and I talked about vLockstep and ... http://vmwarevideos.com/interview-with-david-davis-john-troyer-vmworld-2008 I met Daniel Conde of VMware at a book signing during VMworld 2008. He was signing his book "Deploying VMware Infrastructure". I talked with him and read parts of the book. The book is written by him and and number of other VMware experts. I like the book because it ... http://vmwarevideos.com/deploying-vmware-infrastucture-by-daniel-conde-and-other-vmware-experts I just got an email about an interesting webcast concerning "Scaling up Backups as virtual environments grow. Then I realized that the speaker was me. So, I hope you will check out the webcast I did a couple months back covering virtualization and backups. The tips you will learn in ... http://vmwarevideos.com/webcast-david-davis-scaling-up-backups-as-virtual-environments-grow 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. http://vmwarevideos.com/video-david-davis-covering-vlockstep-from-data-center-decisions-conference-october-2008 I spoke at TechTarget's Data Center Decisions conference in Chicago last week. One of the speakers was Virtulization Expert, Andrew Kutz (author of the famous SVMotion plug-in). In this video, Andrew discusses using virtualization in a lab environment. Click on the video to watch the full interview... http://vmwarevideos.com/video-techtarget-dcd-expert-andrew-kutz-discusses-using-virtualization-in-a-lab I recently completed my updated VMware ESX Server 3.5 video training course. For over a year now, my ESX 3.0 training course has been a "best seller", helping thousands of IT Pro's learn VMware ESX & VMware's Virtual Infrastructure Suite. In the new course, I have updated videos on how ... http://vmwarevideos.com/david-releases-updated-vmware-esx-server-35-video-training-course SolarWinds free VM Monitor makes it easy to quickly check the health of your VMware ESX server by monitoring CPU, memory utilization, virtual machine status. The Petri IT Knowledgebase has recently made this tool available to all site visitors. To download your free VM Monitor tool, just visit: ... http://vmwarevideos.com/download-a-free-vmware-esx-performance-monitoring-tool-vm-monitor I had a ton of t-shirts in my bag of swag from VMworld 2008. In this video, Jan and Hannah of TechTarget share what they had in their bag o' swag from VMworld 2008. Check it out! http://vmwarevideos.com/whats-in-your-bag-of-swag-from-vmworld-2008 I just returned from VMworld 2008 where I was a judge for the best products of VMworld. I was honored to be a part of a group of well known virtualization experts such as guys like Scott Lowe, Andrew Kutz, and Mike Laverick. These guys have tremendous insight into the ... http://vmwarevideos.com/vmworld-2008-video-blogs-by-david-davis-scott-lowe-andrew-kutz-and-more In this video, you will learn how to run a Virtual Router & Firewall inside VMware ESX with Vyatta. [viddler]b90b0177[/viddler] http://vmwarevideos.com/running-a-virtual-router-firewall-inside-vmware-esx-with-vyatta In my new video, I demonstrate, step by step, how you can run VMware ESX Server 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 inside VMware Workstation 6.5. This is also shown in my Train Signal VMware ESX Server video training course. While you wouldn't run ESX in Workstation for a production server, running ESX ... http://vmwarevideos.com/running-vmware-esx-35-and-esxi-in-workstation-on-your-desktop-pc With the start of VMware's VMworld conference in Las Vegas this week, VMware made a huge announcement with a move toward "cloud computing". As you can see in the diagram above, VMware's new product line is broken down as: Application vServices guarantee the appropriate levels of availability, security and scalability to all ... http://vmwarevideos.com/in-a-move-to-cloud-computing-vmware-accounces-virtual-data-center-os-vdc-os In this high quality video, Jeremy Van Doorn, Senior VMware Engineer covers what Site Recovery Manager (SRM)  is and how it can help you. [viddler]75973300[/viddler] http://vmwarevideos.com/vmware-engineer-presents-site-recovery-manager-from-vmworld-europe-2008 I just watched this free VMware webcast covering how VMware ESXi is the easiest way to get started with virtualization. I found it to be a great overview of ESXi and I would recommend it to anyone who is new to virtualization and is interested in trying out ESXi. To ... http://vmwarevideos.com/esxi-video-the-easy-way-to-get-started-with-virtualization In the latest article by VMware ESX video author, David Davis, learn how VMware ESX security profiles are the firewall of ESX Server, why they are so important, and how to configure them. Read the full article at: Understanding VMware ESX Server Security Profiles http://vmwarevideos.com/understanding-vmware-esx-server-security-profiles For many years, VMware Server has been VMware’s sole FREE virtualization offering. VMware Server runs on top of the Windows or Linux operating system and is an excellent platform for server virtualization. Recently, it was announced that VMware ESXi Server will now be offered at no cost. Now, if you ... http://vmwarevideos.com/first-look-vmware-server-rc1compare-esxi 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... [bliptv]793841[/bliptv] http://vmwarevideos.com/video-vmware-hyperv-quick-migration-fails VMware recently posted some great videos over at blip.tv and I will be posting links to them here at VMwareVideos.com. One of those videos covers a cool new feature of VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta - Record and Replay. Take a look... [bliptv]1051171[/bliptv] http://vmwarevideos.com/video-debugging-vmware-workstation-65-beta-record-replay 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. [youtube]ZUtmogrGnTQ[/youtube] http://vmwarevideos.com/video-demonstration-of-vmha-during-an-uplanned-outage I will be a judge at the Best of VMworld Awards product competition this year at VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas. I am very excited about it and I hope that all companies who have a VMware-related product submit their nomination. So, does your company produce a VMware-related software application, hardware ... http://vmwarevideos.com/best-of-vmworld-awards Over at VMware's SMB website, they have produces some very funny promotional videos for VMware. These videos remind me a lot of those Geico commercials where they say that they "saved a ton of money on their car insurance". However, in these videos, the VMware customers talk about how they ... http://vmwarevideos.com/vmware-geico-commericials-saved-money-with-esx-virtualization 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. [youtube]nTRPqDJbnhs[/youtube] http://vmwarevideos.com/video-learn-how-you-can-replicate-vms-to-another-site-with-double-take Mark Clifton from Dell's Executive Briefing Center talks about how to intergrate Dell OpenManage with VMware's Virtual Infrastructure to create a resilient environment against hardware failures. [youtube]Q2t3tye2xXQ[/youtube] http://vmwarevideos.com/learn-how-to-integrate-vmware-esx-server-with-dell-openmanage The guys over at DellTechCenter continue to crank out some great content covering both VMware and other vendors' virtualization solutions. In the video below, Todd Muirhead demonstrated VMware Storage VMotion in action. [youtube]7EfGJaYnQjM[/youtube] http://vmwarevideos.com/storage-vmotion-video-demonstration-from-dell-tech-center [caption id="attachment_47" align="alignleft" width="275" caption="VMware VI Toolkit Training Video"][/caption] The new VMware VI Toolkit 1.0 for Windows is a toolkit that works with Microsoft Powershell to allow you to write powershell scripts that can configure and administer VMware ESX Server. VMware has released a free webinar/training video that shows you what ... http://vmwarevideos.com/vmware-vi-toolkit-windows-powershell-training-video-webinar [caption id="attachment_41" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Train Signal VMware ESX Server Video Training Course"][/caption] This just in - Train Signal Computer Training - the global leader in computer training for IT Pros - will announce an updated VMware ESX Server 3.5 training course available just in time for VMworld 2008 (middle of September). ... http://vmwarevideos.com/vmware-esx-server-video-training-course-35-trainsignal-updated Today, VMware announced a huge change in their executive leadership - Diane Greene was "shown the door" and Paul Maritz was brought in as President and CEO - WOW! Diane Greene has been such a strong force at VMware - so visible at VMworld - and such a great promoter ... http://vmwarevideos.com/vmware-executive-leadership-change-diane-greene-out-new-guy-in-fired I was contacted by VMware to see if I knew any candidates that might want to work as "infrastructure development engineers" in the ThinApp / Application Virtualization Group. That a is very exciting place to be! Here is what they are looking for: You will be responsible for architecture, design & implementation ... http://vmwarevideos.com/vmware-thinapp-group-looking-for-a-few-good-infrastructure-development-engineers In this latest article from David Davis, VCP, learn what VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is, how it can help you, and what the requirements are to use it. I hope you will check out: VMware Site Recovery Manager - How it can help you http://vmwarevideos.com/vmware-site-recovery-manager-how-it-can-help-you According to VMware, their new Thinstall / ThinApp software allows you to  "Run any version of virtually any application on a single operating system without conflicts. Encapsulate settings and configurations into a single executable file or MSI package that can be installed on physical and virtual desktops. Deliver and deploy applications ... http://vmwarevideos.com/free-1-hour-video-vmware-thinapp-thinstall-training-video In this new TechTarget article by David Davis, VCP and Train Signal ESX Server video author, David covers how VMware ESX trumps Hyper-V. It shows how VMware offers so many more features and has so much more maturity than Microsoft. Additionally, it points out how Microsofts Hyper-V isn't yet ready ... http://vmwarevideos.com/how-vmware-esx-server-performance-trumps-microsoft-hyper-v-price Dell & VMware have a nice Site Recovery Manager (SRM) video that covers how scripting works when using SRM. This video features Kiran Ranabhor, Technical Product Manager for DR, VMware. Very cool stuff! http://vmwarevideos.com/vmware-dell-site-recovery-manager-srm-video I am trying to spread the work about a new VMware Admin website - www.VirtualizationAdmin.com. This site offers many new VMware ESX Server How-to articles. They have lined up many talented virtualization authors. In fact, here are links to some of their recently released articles: What is Storage VMotion (SVMotion) and How do you ... http://vmwarevideos.com/new-vmware-related-website-virtualization-admin-how-to In this article, David Davis, VCP and Train Signal ESX Server video author discusses an interesting VMware Admin job opening and asks "what are the best websites to look for and post VMware-related jobs".   Recently, a recruiter friend of mine approached me with an interesting part-time VMware Admin job at a company in ... http://vmwarevideos.com/vmware-admin-job-internet-job-sites-employment Over at the Petri Virtualization website, I wrote about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and how it can help you. That article went from a basic intro to VDI, all the way to the various products used to implement it, and finally, a free (yet basic) way to implement your own ... http://vmwarevideos.com/what-is-vmware-vdi-vdm-how-can-it-help-videos For any of you who did not catch the VMWorld Virtually Famous music video winner, I hope you will take another look. The song is so catchy, I am still humming it in my head. I think I will have my CIO watch it and perhaps it will finally help ... http://vmwarevideos.com/vmware-music-video-virtually-famous-virtualized-hardware-hotel-vmworld In this video, Pat Lee from VMware is interviewed, he discusses, and demonstrates how to virtualize Mac OS X Leopard and VMware Fusion. Here is where to find it: [viddler]78c4a4c2[/viddler] It is really amazing what you can do with Fusion! VMware Rocks! http://vmwarevideos.com/how-to-virtualize-mac-os-x-leopard-using-vmware-fusion If you went to VMWorld Europe 2008 or if you read news from the show, you probably heard about or watched a video from Virtualization Evangelist, Tarry Singh. If you aren't familiar with him, Tarry runs an excellent virtualization website called Virtualization for Everyone. Recently, interviewed David Davis, a VCP, ... http://vmwarevideos.com/tarry-singh-interviews-david-davis-vmware-video-training-author-vcp-and-owner-of-vmwarevideoscom I recently received a tip from Jason Eden, VMware's eLearning Manager, that you can download all the VMware eLearning videos available on YouTube and Blip.tv - all in one place. That place is VMware's eLearning download repository. I downloaded the, roughly, 50MB ZIP file and was impressed when I ran the ... http://vmwarevideos.com/how-to-download-the-vmwares-vmware-server-training-for-free I was surprised this week to find a copy of the only printed Virtualization magazine I have ever seen, in my mailbox. I received Premier Issue #1 of Virtualization Review this week. It is published by 1105 Enterprise Computing Group (ECG) - the same group that publishes Redmond Magazine (covering ... http://vmwarevideos.com/virtualization-review-printed-magazine-mailbox-redmond VMware has a couple of free video training sites that have been brought to my attention and I want to share both of them with all the VMwareVideos.com readers. VMware Official YouTube E-Learning channel  VMware Official Blip.TC E-Learning Site These videos have some good tips in them. There are about 13 videos at ... http://vmwarevideos.com/vmware-official-video-training-sites-blip-tv-youtube 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 ... http://vmwarevideos.com/using-free-vmware-server-mscs-clustering-high-availability Here is a funny & crazy video commercial for VMware VCB from the VI3 product launch. Be careful - its real cheesy! [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=fn8IfIiu5pM] http://vmwarevideos.com/vmware-vcb-funny-video-vi3-product-launch-youtube