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Eric Siebert presents on the Virtual Strategy Magazine Site an interesting list about VMWare´s VirtualCenter.

This list contains a collection of presentations from VMworld and also various VMware tech notes and white papers that cover everything you will need to know about the database, the advantages and disadvantages of running VirtualCenter as a virtual machine, roles, permissions templates and how to properly configure it.

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VMware presents a new whitepaper about the VirtualCenter Database Performance.

Jerry Melnick from Marathon Technologies shares some tips about Server Virtualization.

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Chris McCain presents some very helpful Videos about working with VMware on his Blog.

Some topics are:

- VirtualCenter 2.5 with SQL Server 2005

- VMware Update Manager Demo

- Virtual Switch Configuration for NLB Clusters

- Windows Server 2003 as an NFS server for ESX

- ESX Server 3.5 Forgotten Root Password

At the VMware ELearning channel, the company's education services team and affiliated parties have already provided 19 videos on each service that help with VMware Server 1.0.

To check out what's already available, you can either visit the VMware ELearning channel on YouTube or Blip.tv.

You can also download the course for free here...

In this article Alexey Vasilyev will show us an effective way to expand the virtual disk size (for GSX Server, VMware Server, VMware Workstation) in 4 steps.
It's easy and doesn't require installing any additional OS or third-party tools.

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Massimo Re Ferre' posted an interesting article on the philosophical differences between traditional custering and approaches like VI3's High Availability (HA).

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Andy Grogan has posted an excellent article how you can use VMWare Server to test Exchange 2007 as a CCR cluster using Windows 2003 Server.

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Edward L. Haletky presents his interesting article about the different VI3 Backup Tools on the VMProfessional Website.

Read the full article here....

Click here for a comparison of esXpress to vRanger and VMware VCB

If you are interested in the Database Schema of the VirtualCenter.
Jae Ellers has documented the basic schema of the VirtualCenter MS SQL Database.

Check it out here.... 

When people finally climb aboard the virtualization train and go down the road of server consolidation, one of the first questions they have is, "How do I move my existing servers into a virtual machine format?"

And that really can be an annoying process for someone if they don't have any clue as to where to begin. Sure, IT admins know all about imaging and backups, but if they are just now being exposed to virtualization, they typically don't know much about the migration process let alone the terminology of P2V.

Based on Vizioncore's experience from thousands of successful server conversions, they present the following tips for managing the process and selecting the solution that best meets your needs.

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Eine schöne Einführung in das Thema Virtualisierung gibt uns der Buchautor Sven Ahnert in seinem Artikel in der Zeitschrift Linux Pro.

Der Autor stellt diesen Artikel, der vor allem für Virtualisierungs-Einsteiger interessant sein sollte, auf seiner Website als PDF Download bereit.

This afternoon I found an interesting and powerful website that covers many aspects of IT virtualization including:

• Servers

• Storage

• Desktops

• Applications

Einen interessanten Artikel über die "neuen" Herausforderungen im Bereich IT Management und IT Prozesse beim Einsatz von Virtualisierungslösungen hat computerwoche.de veröffentlicht.

Der Autor Dr. Andreas Knaus beschreibt u.a. welche Veränderungen auf die IT Prozesse wie z.B. Change- und Configuration Management zukommen und liefert als Hilfestellung eine kleine Anpassungscheckliste.

Der komplette Artikel kann hier nachgelesen werden.

Novell to extend interoperability leadership with the industry's first solutions to help enterprises manage workloads across both physical and virtual infrastructures......

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