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Solution for LVM based Linux servers using VMware Converter showing no volumes

Solution for LVM based Linux servers using VMware Converter showing no volumes

While trying to convert some Linux servers (Ubuntu 12.04) using VMware Converter I ran into an issue. Because of the servers being LVM based I could only see the /boot volumes and no other volumes, certain servers didn’t even show the /boot volume. The problem is due to the newest LVM version which has some changes made into it. The amount of lv_attr has changed from 6 to 8, you can see this using the command “lvs” which will result…

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New White Paper: VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Performance and Best Practices

New White Paper: VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Performance and Best Practices

VMware released a Technical White Paper about VMware vCloud Director 5.1 which contains Performance and Best Practices. The document is about 28 pages. You can download it here. VMware vCloud Director 5.1 gives enterprise organizations the ability to build secure private clouds that dramatically increase datacenter efficiency and business agility. Coupled with VMware vSphere, vCloud Director delivers cloud computing for existing datacenters by pooling virtual infrastructure resources and delivering them to users as catalog-based services. vCloud Director 5.1 helps you…

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NAKIVO announces free Backup & Replication for VMware

NAKIVO announces free Backup & Replication for VMware

NAKIVO Inc., the leader in affordable VM backup solutions, announced today the general availability of NAKIVO Backup & Replication Free Edition. The Free Edition enables local, remote, and cloud backups for operational, archival, and portability purposes, as well as VM copy and migration. News Facts The Free Edition provides a quick and simple way to make ad-hoc backups of running VMs for operational, archival, and portability purposes. VMs can be backed up locally, remotely over WAN, or to Dropbox –…

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Free training: VMware Security Solution Fundamentals

Free training: VMware Security Solution Fundamentals

VMware announced a FREE online training course called “Introducing the VMware Security Solution Fundamentals“. This course is a self-paced course which lasts 1 hour and it’s available through myLearn training. This free eLearning course provides the background information needed to work with the products included in the VMware Security Solution. The course begins with a review of basic security methodologies and how virtualization affects security. References for follow-on reading are provided for students less familiar with these concepts. Next, the…

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