It's noon on Wednesday: do you know where your snapshots are? Roundtable #27 podcast
After taking a week off for Thanksgiving, this week we were back and had a great open topic roundtable. As always, listen via the widget to the right or the mp3 (or iTunes). More podcast info. Here's what we talked about:
- snapshots
- Know thy open snapshots (Jason Boche)
- How VMware snapshots work (Eric Siebert)
- Deleting virtual machine snapshots without wasting disk space (Eric Siebert)
- Troubleshooting VMware snapshots (Eric Siebert)
- Exporting Virtual Infrastructure Information to MS Word (Alan Renouf)
- Looking for unregistered snapshots that VC doesn't know about? See the articles above.
- finding VMware-related technical information
- Does VMware have too many locations for technical materials (Rod Haywood)
- VMware administrator resources (Eric Siebert)
- What are the best ways to search for troubleshooting information in the VMware Knowledge Base? (kb article on searching the kb)
- VMware Technical Resource documents listing (easy to search/scan list of abstracts for VMware white papers, from Rod Haywood)
- Keep your VMware ESXi warranty: Don't break the security shell (Edward Haletky)
- A Look at Microsoft "Hyper-V Server" on a Notebook (don't try this at home, kids)
- Citrix on VMware
- http://communities.vmware.com/message/863663#863663 (Jason Boche)
- Virtualising Citrix/XenApp on VMware (Alan Renouf)
- Tip for virtualizing Citrix servers involving user profiles (Jason Boche)
- Tom Howarth's new blog PlanetVM (everybody go say hi to Tom)
- Roundtable regulars on Twitter
- jtroyer
- depping
- gabvirtualworld
- alanrenouf
- tom_howarth
- astorrs
- jasonboche
- did I forget anybody?
We're on every Wednesday at noon PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT. Everybody's welcome.
Dec 10 - VMware View 3 (tentative)
Dec 17 - Mobile Virtual Platform (tentative)
Dec 24 & 31 - no podcast
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/06/23/deleting-snapshots-when-everything-else-failse/
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/01/07/delete-all-snapshots/
Posted by: Duncan | December 04, 2008 at 11:20 AM
He will not shut up please do something he thanks it’s his personal bitch session.
Posted by: Kevin | December 08, 2008 at 05:58 PM
The discussion around the 100GB snapshot of the 10GB disk... could the 10GB disk been a thin provisioned disk?
Posted by: Kevin | December 11, 2008 at 07:53 PM
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