Veeam Backup 2.0 has been released

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Less than five months after the first release, Veeam Backup 2.0 has been released!
The interesting features like:

Real-time statistics and reports
Support for VMware ESXi (free of charge)
Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS) in Windows guest OSes backup
Support for 3rd party tape backup devices
Backup and replication combined
Fast file-level recovery
Database-consistent backup

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VMware Infrastructure 3.5 Update 2 have been released

Monday, July 28th, 2008

VMware have been released the Update 2 for ESX (build 103908) and VirtualCenter (104215).
This new version brings a number of important features including:

Cross-processors VMotion (auto-configuration of AMD-V Extended Migration and Intel FlexMigration)
Virtual machines live snapshot through Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS) (only Windows 2003 and 2008 guest OSes)
Virtual machines live cloning
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VMware CPU Resources

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Look at my VMware ESX Server CPU Resources.

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As you can see from graph above, my VMware ESX Server running for more than 85% - 97% of CPU resources.
Basically I have 2 VMware ESX 3.5 running on top of Dell R900, Intel Xeon E7330 @2.4 Ghz processor and 128 RAM on each [...]

How to add a raw mapping device on VMware

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

VMware ESX Server offers two choices for managing disk access in a virtual machine—VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) and raw device mapping (RDM). It is very important to understand the I/O characteristics of these disk access management systems in order to choose the right access type for a particular application. Choosing the right disk access [...]

How to install and configure NTP on VMware ESX host

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

The following article will guide you ‘how to install and configure NTP on VMware ESX host’
1. SSH on to VMware ESX host service console as the root user
2. Make a backup copy of existing files.
[root@esxhost]#cp /etc/ntp.conf /etc/ntp.conf.orig
[root@esxhost]#cp /etc/ntp/step-tickers etc/ntp/step-tickers.orig
3. Edit /etc/ntp.conf
[root@esxhost]#vi /etc/ntp.conf
#Insert the following details as example below:
restrict ntp1.planetmy.com kod nomodify notrap server
restrict ntp2.planetmy.com kod [...]