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Veeam, known of their freeware FastSCP program to copy files to ESX servers, has released the third version of their Veeam Reporter Enterprise.

This is part of the mail I received from Veeam:

The beta is over … the first reporting solution specifically designed for documentation and change management in large VMware Infrastructure 3 environments is now generally available.

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John Davis of Virtualizationinformation.com posted the presentation he gave at VMWorld 2008 on his website: Advanced Performance Tuning VI3. His notes are also included. A lot of useful tips are in this presentation, so John, thanks for sharing!

Now that the sessions from VMWorld 2008 are available online (for registered attendees), I thought I could share some of the good stuff with you. Here are some recommendations for implementing XenApp 4.5 on VMware. I’ve posted recommendations before, so there could be some overlap. Of course, not all recommendations may apply to your situation, but I find some of them very useful. These come from session VD2591: Lessons Learned While Deploying Citrix Presentation Server (XenApp) 4.5 in a Virtual Datacenter.   Read the rest of this entry »

Verron Martina from VMware dropped me an e-mail with a lot of recommendations for running Citrix in a VI3.x environment. These recommendations come from other system engineers from VMware working in the field. Thanks Verron, for sharing this. Read the rest of this entry »

DABCC spotted 3 free utilities for your VMware virtual Infrastructure. The tools are from Mightycare Solutions GmbH and are released a while ago, but I thought they were worth mentioning:

• Snapshots Version 1.5: a small script you are able to check your virtual machines on a ESX server if there are in snapshot mode. 
• MCS VMStatus: connects to a VMware Virtual Center 2.5 server and displays a list of all virtual machines along with the following information. 
• MCS Storageview 1.0.5: displays the logical partitions of all virtual Machines in a VMware ESX 3.x or Virtual Center 2.x environment.

Eric Siebert, guru moderator on the VMware community, collected 10 articles about VMware troubleshooting. The articles come from VMworld 2006 and 2007 and could come in handy when you … well, the title is pretty self-explanatory.

Eric Sloof from NTPro brings the following to our attention:

The book that we all have been waiting for is finally finished: The Virtual Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design guide!

We still have to wait 5 to 6 weeks before we can actually read it, but still, it’s good news.

Eric Siebert, guru moderator on the VMware community, collected 10 articles about VMware security. Good job, Eric.