Happy Christmas and wishing all of the virtualization community a Happy New Year too!!!

This video walks you through how to use the PHD Virtual Backup Exporter to export backup data for long term storage.

Find out more about PHD Virtual Backup 5.3 for VMware and Xenserver!

This video is a full 40 minute recording of a webinar overview of PHD Virtual’s monitoring solution for VMware vSphere environments.

You can find out more information on PHD Virtual Monitor at: http://www.phdvirtual.com/monitor

VMware View Client for iPad makes it easy to access your Windows virtual desktop from your iPad with the best possible user experience on the Local Area Network (LAN) or across a Wide Area Network (WAN).

What’s New in Version 1.2

- Optimized for VMware View 5 with improved performance
- Support for iOS 5 including AirPlay
- Presentation Mode for use with external display and AirPlay
- Embedded RSA soft token simplifies login to desktop
- Background tasking to move between Windows and iOS apps
- Updated look and feel
- Integrated online help
- Buffered text input for multibyte text entry
- Now in French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese
- Bug fixes

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vmware-view-for-ipad/id417993697

My #1 go to person for great video content on new products in the virtualization world has to be either David Davis, or (in this case) Eric Sloof! Eric is a seasoned VMware certified instructor so all of his videos are top notch!

This video from Eric focuses on VMware Data Recovery 2.0.

VMware’s new release of 2.0 extended the ability to quickly and simply protect and restore virtual machines. Fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server, VMware Data Recovery gives central management of backup and restore operations, and the inherent deduplication of data saves significant disk space and provides flexible options for storage. VMware Data Recovery 2.0 has introduced a number of improvements including performance enhancements, speed, and reliability improvements, as well as capabilities to enhance management with the ability to email reports and schedule maintenance windows.

Several fixes have been included that rectify issues found in VMware Data Recovery 1.2.1. Issues that have been resolved include:

• CIFS target handling and resilience
• Incremental RDM backup
• Backups failing with “not enough disk space” errors
• Backups failing with “disk full” error despite free space being available

I would however advise anyone who is considering VDR as a solution to check out PHD Virtual Backup as a more viable and scaleable option.

Great video Eric!

This video has been doing the rounds today and is the first video in a vSphere 5 Video Series being creating by Rick Scherer from vmwaretips.com.

This video showcases the basics to getting vSphere 5.0 installed, configured and operating with a bare-metal installation of ESXi 5.0 in less than 5 minutes.

This is anothor one of Eric Sloof’s great video shorts. This one shows you how to configure your vSphere 5 network in order to use multiple network adapters for vMotion.

More information about vMotion Architecture, Performance, and Best Practices in VMware vSphere 5 can be found here.

I’m still on a high from VMworld! It was great to see all of the community members in the flesh again and great to check out all of the new technology and software releases!

What was especially great to see was PHD Virtual Backup 5.3’s latest features in action and the new PHD Monitoring suite being showcased!
It was also great to see all of the attendees packing out our booth! This video shows a giveaway we did to the attendees on the Wednesday at the show!

The buzzing in the background is The Killers doing their bass and drum check in area next door!

Last week at VMworld Las Vegas 2011 I cornered several prominent community members and picked their brains on their main VMworld 2011 experiences.

In this interview Greg Stuart ( @vDestination / vDestination.com ) who is the man behind the vExpert corner in the community/blogger lounge tells me what his VMworld has been like.

Crystal Lowe (Wife of vSpecialist and Virtualization Author Scott Lowe) has created a growing movement over the last few years called Spousetivities that focuses on expo activities for the wives of attendees.

I caught up with Crystal at VMworld to find out what Spousetivities is all about!

I bumped into blogger David Owen ( @vMackem / vMackem.co.uk) a few minutes before a session and took the opportunity to interview him about what has stood out for him at VMworld 2011 so far.