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[VM /ETC] VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 3 released | VM /ETC: I’ve already mentioned the new ESX 3.5 Update 3 release in my post about the VMDK Recovery Tool, but here’s a copy of the official email announcement I received from VMware tonight.

[Yellow Bricks] VMware ESX 3.5 Update 3 » Yellow Bricks: I’m waiting for our VMs to move over and see what the VMDK Recovery Tool can do, I guess this was discussed at the podcast roundtable and using the vStorage API eventually to do block level updates for a particulate VM without having to work on the entire LUN.

[VM /ETC] VMware VI 3.5 Port Diagram | VM /ETC: The result is a single page solution to important port information that I always seem to have to dig out of the VMware installation and quick start manuals.

[SearchStorage.com.au RSS Feed] Three ways to backup and restore under VMware :: SearchStorage.com.au: Running data backups simultaneously may work well for physical servers, which will likely have an abundance of idle resources, but for VMware virtual infrastructure, where idle resources are purposely consumed, there's a greater likelihood that multiple backup operations will choke the underlying physical server. Thus, after virtualization, backup schedules should be adjusted so that jobs are staggered through the course of your backup window to avoid excessive overlapping of jobs.

[Yellow Bricks] VMware Communities Roundtable podcast tonight! » Yellow Bricks: I’m really looking forward to the podcast tonight. We’ve got Chad Sakac from EMC joining in to elaborate on topics like:

[VMware Tips] Product Review : Sun VirtualBox | VMware Tips: Long story short, VirtualBox is an excellent type-2 hypervisor, it is ported to all major O/S distributions and I would highly recommend it if your looking for a small, quick and easy to use virtualization program.  VMware Server is also an excellent product but it just seems a little bulky for what it does, I’m also not impressed with the web-based administration introduced in version 2.0.

 [VMware Communities: Message List - VI: ESX 3.5] VMware Communities: VCB NFS NetApp Legato ...: The process is very user friendly, you simply select the VM state you want to restore the file from (latest state, or earlier states).Once you do that, you are presented with the file explorer window which lets you browse the VM file system inside backup file to find the required file(s), and just copy/paste or drag and drop the file(s) anywhere you want to extract it (your desktop, remote server etc.). Note that backup image is not actually expanded during the file level recovery process, rather the file is fetched directly from the backup file, so you can recover any file in a matter of seconds even from backup containing terabyte VMDK files.

 [Malaysia VMware Communities] VM Guest not able to be boot up: How to re-register a VM once it had been removed from ESX; Running VMware ESX 3.5 and ESXi in VMware Workstation;

 [Server Virtualization Blog] Free virtualization tools for tough economic times ”” Server ...: A server virtualization blog covering virtual machine (VM) management and administration, VMware, Xen, Microsoft, server consolidation and hardware, backup and disaster recovery, VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) and more.

[Planet VMware] VMware: VMTN Blog: Weekend reading: new blogs: With the ESX Service Console (Console OperatingSystem or COS for short) based on a version of Red Hat, Linux and Unixadministrators were natively the best equipped to carry on anintelligent conversation of Linux partitioning “Do’s and Don’ts”.However, ESX did add a few twists in how it used the COS and the filesystem. Taking into account the native behavior of Red Hat in additionto the ESX specific characteristics, partitioning best practicesevolved.

[VMware Tips] Product Review : Vizioncore vFoglight | VMware Tips: The data is so granular that you can even see disk usage at a VM level (VMDK allocation, usage). Another note to add is that event messages from VirtualCenter are automatically imported into vFoglight as well.

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