The VMware Infrastructure Software Development Kit (VI SDK) includes application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow developers and administrators to reduce the time and effort required to run and manage VMware platforms. The author of the book VMware VI and vSphere SDK  is Steve Jin, a senior member of technical staff at VMware, wrote this book to help the reader understand the VMware SDK and how to effectively use the SDK.

According to Steve Jin, this book is an indispensable resource for all: Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday VMware released version 3.5u3 of their flagship product ESX, several new features are appealing for me. In previous 3.5 versions it was not possible to tarball upgrade to those versions; gladly VMware corrected this and with the u3 version it’s possible. To do this follow the procedure in the Upgrade Guide pages 76 for ESX2 hosts and 77 for ESX3 hosts.

This u3 version incorporates a number of other features Read the rest of this entry »

Veeam just released the Veeam Monitor 3.0 beta which is used to monitor your VMWare Virtual Infrastructure environment.

New features:

- Multiple new alarm sources(VCenter events, VM Heartbeat, VM State and more)
- Alarm modeling & testing(use your event history to see how Veeam Monitor reacts)
- Trend Reporting (learn from your reports) Read the rest of this entry »