Just a quick chart to display the different options available in vSphere.  

If you ever encounter a situation where you need to manually boot your VM’s directly from ESXi you can use the following commands. vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms – this command will list all the registered VM’s on that host vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on – Using the VM ID from the previous command you can now boot the required servers…

The word ‘Cloud’ is still being tossed about on a daily basis – Companies are deploying their own private clouds at an astonishing pace… Critical to the deployment of any major solution is the design. Without a rock solid design to work from you will find hurdles as the project unfolds… VMware have created the [...]

vCC – vCloud Connector This is a plug-in for VMware vCenter Client that allows administrators to see local vSphere resources (private) as well as vCloud resources (public) and move workloads back and forth – all from the same pane of glass. Additional functionality includes: • List of virtual machines, vApps, or VM templates on vSphere [...]

Live webcast by leaders in the cloud development community Please join VMware and friends on April 12th for a special live webcast about cloud application development. Each new era of computing changes the way we build applications. Current and aspiring cloud developers are invited to learn more about the next step in building cloud applications. [...]

VMware have just released the latest security hardening guide for vSphere 4.1. This guide provides the necessary steps required to secure your environment from all the main security risks. You can download a copy of the guide from the vmware website… This guide covers the security for the virtualisation infrastructure layer including the following sections: [...]

Posted by VMware’s Chief Technical Officer Steve Herrod on the company’s blog: “Today it is my pleasure to announce that VMware has hired the team and acquired assets behind EMC’s Mozy cloud-based data protection service. VMware will operate the Mozy service on behalf of EMC without interruption. It’s clear that VMware is very impressed with [...]

Administering SRM by Mike Laverick now free to download as PDF.