Before you upgrade vCenter Server, you can run the VMware vCenter Database Pre-Upgrade Checker on your current vCenter Server database to reveal problems that could prevent the upgrade or affect the performance of your database after the upgrade. For more information see KB article 2004286
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Jul
05
2011
VMware – Fully automated ESXi installation
Tom Arentsen wrote some nice step-by-step articles about the PXE manager for vCenter fling http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager/ http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager-part-i/ http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager-part-ii/ http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager-part-iii/ http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager-part-iv/ http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager-part-v/ http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager-part-vi/
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May
16
2011
VMware – Free compliance checker for vSphere
Check the compliance of your IT infrastructure against specific standards and best practices that are applicable for the environment. The Compliance Checker is a free, downloadable, fully-functional product for checking compliance of your environment to help you ensure that it remains secure and compliant. Download here
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Jan
25
2011
Dropbox
Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc. which uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. There are both free (2GB) and paid services, each with varying options; the service is cross-platform, with client programs available for several different …
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Dec
02
2010
VMware – Alive VM
As a VMware administrator, you spend up to 80% of your time isolating performance issues in your VMware environment. Diagnosing performance problems in VMware virtual infrastructures should take up far less of your valuable time. AliveVM is a revolution in real-time VMware performance management, providing sophisticated learning-based analytics and stunning visualizations to reduce the time …
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Nov
21
2010
VMware – Free tools created by VMware
Free tools brought to you by VMware VMark – Get an accurate measurement of application performance in virtualized environments with VMmark, the industry’s first virtualization benchmark for x86-based computers vCenter Converter – of course we all know this appliance for easy P2V migrations vSphere Management Assistant – allows administrators and developers to run scripts and …
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Aug
03
2010
VMware – Support Toolbar
The VMware Support Toolbar gives you instant access to documentation, patches, live peer to peer chat and more. It can be downloaded at http://vmwaresupport.toolbar.fm/
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Jun
17
2010
VMware – vscsiStats
vscsiStats can be used to perform storage performance analyses. vscsiStats collects and reports counters on storage activity. Its data is collected at the virtual SCSI device level in the kernel. This means that results are reported per VMDK (or RDM) irrespective of the underlying storage protocol. How to start it up Open a putty session …
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Apr
12
2010
VMware – esxtop
A very good article about ESXTOP can be found at http://www.yellow-bricks.com/esxtop/ Reference card: http://www.vreference.com/public/vReference-esxtop1.2.pdf Read also the VMware article http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9279
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Mar
23
2010
VKernel: Product Offering
VKernel’s award winning Capacity Management products help system administrators reduce the costs of virtualization and ensure application performance. VKernel’s suite of Capacity Optimization products reduce the cost of virtualization by optimizing server and storage resource utilization. The Performance Optimization products ensure application performance by identifying and resolving capacity bottlenecks. The Cost Visibility products provide application …
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