Dutch VMUG Event 2008
Nov 13, 2008 Blogs
On December the 12th the Dutch VMUG will host it’s fourth annual VMUG Event. At NBC Nieuwegein, 600 VMUGers can attend numerous sessions about VMware and virtualization-related subjects, ranging from storage to VDI and Disaster Recovery, among much else.
Make sure you visit the agenda to see what great sessions you can attend. You can register here. If you’d like to win a Nintendo Wii with Wii Fit, please enter in the sticker-competition! To see what others have come up with, please check out the Flickr album.
I’ll be there, too. You can recognize me by the shirt with ‘Virtual Lifestyle’ printed on it. See you there!
VMware Site Recovery Manager with LeftHand VSA
Nov 10, 2008 Blogs
Introduction
As a demo/test I wanted to build a complete SRM setup with both sites being protected. This requires two SRM installations and configurations and two replicated LUN’s. Since I am rather limited in available hardware at the moment, I needed to run every component in a virtual Machine on a single laptop.
Luckily, LeftHand Networks has a virtual SAN appliance, which actually is supported by VMware SRM. This way, I can use a supported SAN, and still use ony one laptop.
All used software (VMware ESX, vCenter, LeftHand VSA and Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005) are available for free (or as evaluation software).
