In this quick tip, I’m going to show how you can use VMware PowerCLI scripts as part of your VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) recovery plan. This quick tip is taken from my soon-to-be-released book on VMware SRM 4.0.
This weeks chinwag is with Chris Dearden. It’s a first chinwag I’ve done – so many thanks to Chris for being my hapless guinea pig. I learnt quite a bit in the recent weeks preparing for this – which I think is subject in its own right. There are SO many competing formats, software and publishing methods for video. There are some practical concerns as well – such as watching a delivery man look at me weirdly when I don’t answer the door because I’m in the middle of chinwag!
The big issue I currently have is the lag between audio & video which you get from Skype and re-encoding generally. I had hoped the AVI format and VirtualDub would help – but it turned out not to be the case.
You can keep in touch with Chris by following him on twitter. In his spare time Chris enjoys killing people with paint apparently.
Footnote: In the chinwag, Chris mentions a password management tools they are considering for ESXI. It’s called Secret Server
Chris works for a major financial institution (who will remain nameless!). Chris has been working in IT for about 10 years, although a relative newcomer to virtualisation. It’s something that’s taken his interest more than any other technology. Inspired by some of the high quality of technology blogs out there, he got talked into starting his own by a colleague – its at its fledgling stages currently but like all bloggers, but he has high hopes! When not knee deep in ESX clusters, Chris is also an administrator on the HEXUS.net forums, one of the UK’s larger tech communities.
In the chinwag we discussed, the planned move of a very large number of VMs from the US – and also some challenges he’s been facing with VMware Snapshots. The video is in two segments because Skype bombed out on us half-way through! If you want a MP3 version for your iPOD/iPhone you can grab it here – alternatively if you wish to subscribe to my podcasts you can do here:
Right you north of England based Virtualisation fanciers listen up, the date of the next Northern VMUG has been set for Tuesday the 13th April at the Round Foundry in Leeds.
Now this is a short walk from the Leeds train station,and also has good local parking. further to this there are a number of good pubs which also do food in the vicinity.
The agenda will be published later but I just wanted to get the date out there so you can diary it.
So just to recap the date is the 13th April the place is the Round Foundry in Leeds and an outline plan is currently:
12:30 open
1 pm – 1:30 Key note
1:30 – 2:30 Sessions 1 & 2
2:30 – 3 Networking and presentation Q&A time
3 – 4 Sessions 3 & 4
4 -5 Networking and presentation Q&A time
5 – Late ‘beer’ informal networking
Hope to see you there.
Watch this space for how to sign-up for the event…
Well, it’s properly official now 
http://www.techtarget.com/html/pr/pr-02012010.htm
I’ve been negotiating since late last year – and creating content since 4th Jan… So good so far. The change over has already had a big impact on the quality of life, and given me new impetus to create new content.
Many people think the key to the virtual data centre is about getting as many virtual machines (VMs) on a physical server as possible. It is still the case, however, that prohibitive memory costs are a roadblock to high consolidation ratios, and virtualisation availability tools still lag behind business need. They have not yet cancelled out the “eggs-in-one-basket” scenario that virtualisation endemically brings with it.
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