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How-to tutorial and video by David Davis providing a rundown of Storage IO Control (SIOC), a new feature in vSphere 4.1. SIOC ensures that each virtual machine is given an appropriate allocation of disk resources by preventing a single VM from monopolizing storage resources over other virtual machines. Includes instructions for enabling SIOC, explanation of shares and IOPs, configuration guidelines for controlling resources between VMs, and SIOC performance monitoring.

David Davis walks us through the new VMware vSphere 4.1 feature which allows importing of Hyper-V virtual machines into vSphere. Complete instructions for importing Hyper-V VMs into vSphere, including what you’ll need to get started (vSphere 4.1, vCenter 4.1, vCenter Converter 4.2 installer). Video included.

Just released from the team at Train Signal and certified instructor David Davis (VCP4, VCAP-DCA, CCIE, and vExpert), is their new VMware vSphere Troubleshooting Training. Learn how to solve real-world vSphere virtual infrastructure problems as well as prepare for your VCAP-DCA certification with this 14 hour video training course.

vSphere based backup solutions such as VMware Data Recovery and Veeam Backup and Replication v5 rely on vSphere’s snapshot technology to backup live VMs, which excludes Fault Tolerant VMs as they do not allow snapshots. In this article, Tom Finnis explains how to use custom scripts to work around these restrictions and enable regular scheduled backups of Fault Tolerance protected Virtual Machines.

vExpert David Davis takes a look at Virtual Profiler from Tek-Tools (vProfiler) and explains what it manages, monitors, and alerts on and how it can help manage your virtual infrastructure.

Ever needed to manage an ESXi server when a vSphere Client isn’t available or refuses to connect to it? VMware specialist Tom Finnis explains the various options available to you from the ESXi console, including several unofficial commands that will let you control your virtual machines directly.

Finding which virtual machines have snapshots, how old those snapshots are, and how much space they take up can be very time consuming in the vSphere client graphical interface – see how this topic is covered in Train Signal’s new vSphere Pro Vol 1 training course.

New from Train Signal and VMware vExperts – Rick Scherer, Hal Rottenberg and David Davis is “vSphere Pro Vol. 1” – the latest VMware vSphere video training course. See a demo and find what’s included in this newest vSphere training resource.

In this article VMware expert Tom Finnis continues his evaluation of vSphere4 with a look at the new Data Recovery feature. This adds a comprehensive disaster recovery solution to the vSphere suite, providing full and incremental Virtual Machine backups all managed via a vCenter plugin. Read on to learn more….

Tom Finnis explains how to configure the Data Recovery appliance, schedule backups and restore a virtual machine from a backup. Also covered are advanced features such as VSS integrated file level backups and data de-duplication.